Don’t Rush Through This | Ask DS

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Mar 14, 2024

Explore the art of slowing down and appreciating the present through Stoic wisdom. Discover how our rush towards life often leads us to miss its beauty, with insights from Seneca. Learn about the transformative Spring Forward Challenge designed to help you reassess your habits and seize opportunities for growth. The discussion also touches on balancing confidence and humility amidst external pressures, emphasizing emotional equilibrium while pursuing long-term goals. It's a rich conversation about mindful living and personal renewal.

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ADVICE

Don't Rush

Resist the urge to rush through life's moments.
Focus on the present instead of constantly thinking about the future.

INSIGHT

Death's Presence

Seneca views death not as a distant event, but as a continuous process.
Every moment that passes is time we'll never live again, belonging to death.

ADVICE

Spring Forward

Use spring as a time for renewal and self-improvement, like planting seeds for better habits.
Create better routines now to achieve more meaningful success and presence later.

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Seneca makes the point, however, that what we are really rushing towards—with all deliberate speed—is death. That’s what he means when he says that we get death wrong. Death is not some distant thing in the future, not some one-time thing that looms ahead. Instead, death is something happening to you right now. It’s happening as you read this email (hope it’s been worth it!), it’s happening as you struggle to put your daughter’s shoes on so you can drop her off at school and then it’s happening still more as you sit down to that coffee meeting you rushed to even though you didn’t want to have it in the first place. It happens as you procrastinate, it happens as you distract yourself, it happens as you make bad choices, it happens as you worry and dread and whine.

And that’s why we created The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. It’s a set of ten brand-new actionable challenges designed to push you to examine your choices, your relationships, and your day-to-day patterns and move you closer to living your best life.

“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off,” Marcus Aurelius writes, “how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them.” He reminds us “that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

Don’t rush through life, don’t rush toward death. Use the time assigned to you and sign up for The Spring Forward Challenge NOW at dailystoic.com/spring! Challenge starts March 19!

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