BONUS: Clock’s Ticking—You Listening?

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1:42The clock is ticking. Are you listening? Today is that dreaded day, that day when the clocks spring forward. In the middle of the night, we lost an hour that we'll never get back, an hour of sleep, of leisure, of time with our kids. And we mourn this lost time, imagining all the ways we might have spent it, as if we hadn't already lost many hours before that, as if our schedules weren't padded with so much waste and inefficiency already. What this changing of the clocks should be with its earlier morning is a wake-up call, a sudden change, a disruption, a chance for us to rethink, re-examine, and re-invigorate.

2:26Instead of mourning that last hour, we can use it as a catalyst for change, a symbolic moment to spring forward, not just in time, but in our personal growth and development. A whole season has passed. Are we going to let that happen to us again without having something to show for it? Let's hope not. You could be good today, Marcus Aurelius writes in meditations, but instead you choose tomorrow. Come on. And look, the Daily Stoic Spring Forward challenge is here to help you seize that moment, to not do that. It's not just about adjusting to a slight time change, but transforming your relationship with time so that you approach every day with a sense of clarity and purpose.

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