Today is that day many dread—the day the clocks spring forward. Yes, in the middle of the night, you lost an hour that you'll never get back. An hour of sleep, an hour of leisure, an hour to spend with your kids. You mourn that loss of time, wondering all the ways you could've spent it otherwise.
But isn't it always like this? Aren't we always looking back on our day, our week, our year and questioning where the time went? How we managed to lose so much of it without doing the things we really want to do, without becoming the person we really want to be?
Seneca said that we should never spend an hour of our time without knowing what the return was. He was saying we can't waste time, we can't just let life happen. We can't let the pages fall from the calendar, the days tick by. Because we'll never get them back. They belong to death now.
This isn't to say you have to spend every minute working. Or focus exclusively on "productivity." On the contrary, you have to live. You have to know what you're spending that life on. You have to be aware.
Because each day we have an ability to send a message to the future through our choices and actions. We can decide to get up early. To eat well. To spend a few quiet but meaningful moments with someone we love. These are things that—whatever the future holds—we will look back on and be grateful to our past selves for getting right.
We want to be in a place to wonder many years from now, "How did they know I was going to need this?" We want to plant seeds that bear fruit later. We want to be proud of ourselves for the choices we made now.
In the spirit of planting seeds for ourselves, of learning to spend our time wisely—we're doing an awesome thing we're calling the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. While most of us unthinkingly set our clocks forward (or have devices that do it for us), how many of us take any steps to spring our lives forward?
We don't say we're never going to do it, we say we'll do it the next day, or in the summer, or next year when we have more time. But why aren't you doing it now, while you still can? As Marcus Aurelius says, "You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow."
Don't fall into this trap and join us TODAY for the Spring Forward challenge. It starts March 19 and is set up to push you to examine your habits, your choices, and your relationships to move you closer to living your best life here and now.
Participants will receive:
✓ 10 Custom Challenges Delivered Daily (Over 15,000 words of all-new original content) ✓ One live Q&A session ✓ Printable 10-Day Calendar With custom daily illustrations to track progress ✓ Access to a Private Community Platform
Challenge yourself to spring forward to be the person you know you can be. Head over to dailystoic.com/spring and sign up NOW!
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