This is the Day You Start | What Does Living A Virtuous Life Look Like?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Obviously, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The earlier you get started on something that takes time, the bigger and better the results will be. But all those moments are gone, just as your chance to plant that tree two decades ago is gone. Missed opportunities, they belong to death as Seneca once said about the days that pass us by. They are gone never to return. And that's sad. But as the second half of that expression about trees goes, the next best time is now. Today, now now is an opportunity to start. This is what you deserve, Marcus Aurelius wrote. You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow. But no. Don't choose tomorrow. Choose to be good today. Adopt the mindset of the great Steven Pressfield who writes in his book, Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be. Here is my frame of mind as I sit down to work. This is the day. There is no other day. This is the day. Don't wait for the bus to come around next year. Don't tell yourself you'll do it later. This is the day. Now is now. Now is the best time to start being the person you wanna be, which is actually why we're relaunching the new year, new you challenge. Typically, we do it, you know, live the first twenty one days of the year, but we've actually found that that most people abandon their New Year's resolutions by the twenty first of the year. So maybe that's you, maybe you fell short, maybe you delayed, maybe you didn't even get started, but now is the time. We heard from a bunch of people. They came back from vacation late. They procrastinated. They changed their minds. And, they asked if we could bring it back or give them a second go at it, and that's what we're doing. Today is the day. It starts today. It's your last chance to sign up. Sign up now. Dailystoic.com/challenge. You'll see me in there. I'm already riding on a lot of the changes I made from starting the challenge a little earlier than you, but I'd love to see you in there. Join us with this awesome new cohort in the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge. It would have been better if you started the first of the year, but today's not too bad either. Hey. It's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another q and a episode of the Daily Stoked podcast. Okay. I got a call last year, year before, I think it was 2024. One of the weirdest calls I've ever gotten in my life. It said, okay. Danny DeVito has backed out. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to know if you could interview him at the ninety second Street Boy. And I said, …