The Daily Stoic - This is Where You’re Supposed To Be

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

“We all feel pulled. To do more. To go more places. To make more progress. We are dogged by the constant worry we’re in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing—or rather, there is somewhere else, somewhere better that we could, that we should, be.”Ryan explains why you must embrace the present moment. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow 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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This is where you're supposed to be. We all feel pulled to do more, to go more places, to make more progress. We are dogged by the constant worry we're in the wrong place doing the wrong thing. Or rather, there's somewhere else, somewhere better that we could, that we should be. It's a feeling that manifests itself in many forms, guilt, anxiety, envy, fear, insecurity, basically misery, the exact opposite of being content, happy or grateful, of being present.

Marcus Aurelius knew this. Why do you think he mentioned the present in the present moment more than 20 times in meditations? Each time he was saying, don't worry about the past, don't worry about the future, embrace what is in front of you right now. Be here now." He was saying, don't be somewhere else. Be here, and be here well. It's a reminder we seem to need constantly, our restlessness at an almost cultural level is depriving us of the gift and the beauty of the moment that is before us. Instead of what we're doing with the full measure of our attention, we give it whatever

fraction is not wandered away or been stolen by the device in our pocket. And then we wonder why time flies by or why we have to return to clean up mistakes or why we never feel good enough. Stop! Do what you're doing, whether it's washing the dishes or sitting in traffic or writing your thesis, be where you are, whether that's with your kids or in a career transition or at the doctor's office. it's where you're supposed to be. In the right now, there is nothing else, just this. In the right here, the present is all there is. Be here, be there.

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