The Daily Stoic · 2026-03-20 · 10 min · 1,843 words

You Can Choose Right Now | The Portable Retreat

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. You can choose right now. You could do it when things get warmer. You could do it when winter is officially over. You could do it when things calm down at work.

You could do it after things get settled. You could wait for permission, for an excuse, for help. Or you could do it now. You could stop putting off what you've been procrastinating. You could tackle what you know needs to be tackled.

You could clean up what is screaming. to be cleaned up. As the seasons change, as the clocks move forward, as new growth appears on the trees, there is room for other forms of renewal. This is the time, the Stoics would say. Right now is the time.

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