| It feels like you have time. You're young. You're healthy. The future is bright. But it will not always feel this way. Because those things will not always be true. Seneca knew this. This is why he wrote his famous essay On The Shortness Of Life (our favorite edition here). This is why he admonished his friend Lucilius to be intentional, to protect his time and to keep death always in mind. "It's not that life is short," he writes, "it's that we waste a lot of it." We watch our money. We protect our property. Yet we fritter away the most valuable of our resources, the most finite of them—the one thing we can never get back, that they aren't making us any more of. The time that passes, Seneca writes, belongs to death. It is gone forever, never to return. Once a dawn happens, it is gone to you forever. Once a day ends, it's done for you for all time. Act accordingly. Protect your calendar accordingly. Say "No" accordingly. Do it now…before it's too late. P.S. When we reflect on death, when we accept it as our ultimate fate, we unshackle ourselves from any fear and anxiety about death. As a result, Seneca writes, there becomes "only one chain that binds us to life and that is the love of life." That's why we created the Memento Mori medallion—not so that you remember you must die, but to remember you must act accordingly and not waste any time. Grab your own Memento Mori medallion today to keep close and carry around as a reminder to love the life you have—while you still have it. | 
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