You Can Seize This Moment

Mar 24, 2020

During a time when many are isolated, there's a focus on transforming challenges into opportunities for growth. A 14-day challenge encourages listeners to engage in personal development and community service. HR management tips for small businesses highlight the importance of effective strategies amid uncertainty. The discussion also introduces supportive resources and tools, aiming to enhance resilience and productivity during difficult times.

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Seize the Moment

Use unexpected events as opportunities for growth and self-improvement.
Focus on responding productively, rather than dwelling on lost time.

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Alive Time Challenge

Participate in the Daily Stoic Alive Time Challenge to cultivate resilience, productivity, and service.
The challenge offers Stoic-inspired exercises and readings to help you make the most of difficult times.

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Double Bonus

Join the challenge to improve yourself and contribute to a good cause.
A portion of the proceeds will support groups providing medical supplies and aid to those affected by the crisis.

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This is an email we weren’t expecting to send, but sometimes sudden events call for sudden responses.

Right now you, and much of the world, are locked down, doing your part to fight the spread of COVID-19. Perhaps you’ve already been trapped inside for weeks. Perhaps you just got back the test results and now you are in complete isolation. Perhaps your job has furloughed you and you’ve got a lot of time on your hands.

Things seem serious now, but the truth is, it’s only going to get more serious.

All of us are looking at the potential for some serious lost time. Dead time, as Robert Greene calls it. But do we have to be? A Stoic knows that while we don’t control what happens, we do control how we respond. So that’s the real question: How can we use this time to get better? To grow? To be of service and use? To create “alive time” where we’re actively getting better.

With that end in mind, we have been scrambling to put together what we’re calling the Daily Stoic Alive Time Challenge: Resilience, Productivity and Service in the Time of Coronavirus. It’s 14 days—the length of the suggested quarantine—of Stoicism-inspired challenges, practices and reading that will help you grow and help you help others.

If you’ve done any of our other challenges over the last two years, you know we pack them full of great content, actionable advice, and strategies to make the habits stick. This one will be all that… and incredibly timely. We’re taking our best material and the best insights from the Stoics and organizing it to help you make the most of this time we have. Why shouldn’t you emerge from this process having at least wrested from it some real advantages? Why would you kill time when you could be seizing that time? Why not use it to create better habits and a better perspective?

Since there is little time to lose, we are putting the challenge on sale right now and starting it this coming Monday (March 30th). The more of us doing it together, at the same time, the better (people who sign up late can still do it, but they’ll miss some of the fun). We’ll create a Slack channel for sharing and holding each other accountable. And we’ll do a wrap-up call at the end to discuss keeping these good practices going.

More important, we’re giving $5 of every sale (20% of all proceeds) to Feeding America. By doing this challenge together we can create what Marcus Aurelius calls a double bonus—doing good for ourselves and the people on the front lines fighting to keep us safe.

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