The Daily Stoic - There Is No Better Time Than Now

Episode Date: December 31, 2021

Ryan talks about the urgency of self-improvement and how you can make changes now, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.→ We hope you join us in the 2022 New Year New You Challenge. It kicks off in a little over a week. It’s 3 weeks of actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. Just go to https://dailystoic.com/challenge to sign up before sign ups end on January 1st!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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There is no better time than now. Speaking of which, today is the last day. The last day to sign up for the Daily Stoke, New Year, New Year Challenge. I'd love to have you join me. I'll be doing it alongside you. But seriously, you've put it off. You've heard these messages over the last couple of weeks. You've put it off. And that was the time. Sign up at dailystaylc.com slash challenge.

Anyways, here's today's message. We all have vices. We all have flaws. We all have things we know we want to change. And what happens? Nothing happens. This was true for everyone, even Martin Luther King Jr. One day King said, we tell ourselves, I'm going to rise up and drive this devil out. Drive this evil out. I know it's wrong. I know it's destroying my character and embarrassing my family. But then, he says, at last, the day came and you made a new year's resolution that would get rid of that whole base evil. And then the next year came around and you were doing the same old evil thing. Can you remember the surprise and disappointment that gripped you when you discovered that? He said, after all that you had done through your

resolutions to get rid of it, that the old habit was still there. And out of amazement, you found yourself asking, why could I not cast it out? Santa can remind us that fools all have one thing in common. They're always getting ready to start. They're always getting ready to change. And then, and then, and then, they never do. They never do the work. And rooting evil out of your life takes work.

Same with losing 5 pounds, quitting smoking, breaking the smartphone addiction, drinking less, reading more. And to that end, it's worth repeating epic teetis's question, which we talked about yesterday. How long are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself? You must stop delaying. you must get started today, right now, a new year is upon you. Is there a better time than now? No, no, there is not. So let's go together.

Because for the last four years we've been doing what we call the Daily Stoic New Year New Year Challenge, said of 21 actionable challenges presented one per day built around the best most timeless wisdom in stoic philosophy. 21 challenges designed to help you do exactly what King and Epic teetus were talking about, rising up, driving out the bad, taking action on becoming the person you know you're capable of being.

And these aren't pie in the sky, theoretical discussions, they're daily exercise. The thing you can do today, tomorrow, whenever you're doing it, that will help you spark that kind of improvement that you've wanted. We'll tell you what to do, how to do it, why it works. And when the next year comes around, you won't be doing the same old thing. Out of amazement, you might actually be saying, I did that. I cast it out. I made the change.

So I'd love to have you join us. I do these challenges myself every year. I get so much out of it. Be perfectly honest. One of the reasons we do the challenges, I like starting the year this way, keeps me honest. I love doing the chats of everyone. I love being in the discord section. The whole thing is great. It's great for me. It's great for you. It's been great for thousands and thousands and thousands of people have done it all over the world over the last couple of years. So I'd love to have you join us. Head over at dailystoic.com slash challenge

to sign up now. And seriously, you have like less than 24 hours to sign up. And you already procrastinated this long. So you definitely need this sign up at dailystoic.com slash challenge. I'd love to have you. And if you're a member of Daily Stoic Life, remember this is free for you. And if you're not a member of Daily Stodic Life, well, here's a nice two birds with one

stone situation. Join us dailystodic.com slash challenge. Let's have an awesome 2022 everyone. Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts. Hey there listeners, while we take a little break here, I want to tell you about another podcast that I think you'll like. It's called How I Built This, where host Guy Razz talks to founders behind some of the world's biggest and most innovative companies, to learn how they built them from the ground

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