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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 are on the right timeline. It might not seem that way. In fact, it might seem like everything is falling apart. You didn't get the promotion you wanted. The election turned out differently than you hoped. You just got some disappointing news. You just got hurt. You just got screwed over. Meanwhile, that person you can't stand is getting ahead, getting lucky, break after lucky break. This isn't the timeline I'm supposed to be on. You think this isn't how it was supposed to go. But what if it is? That every event is the right one? Mark Skrelis writes in Meditations. Look closely and you'll see not just the right one overall, but right as if someone had waited out with scales. This wasn't just mental jujitsu for him, though. He believed we had to make this the right timeline and how we acted. We had to look for the good, he said, but most importantly, we had to embody it with our actions, with goodness. What defines a good person? We had to keep to it in everything we do. It might not feel right, might not seem fair, but it is still ours to shape. It is our job to make it right. And in a way, that's what Meditations is as a book. It's Marcus Aurelius trying to remind himself that for all that's going wrong in his life, all that's going sideways, all that he's dealing with, he is on the right timeline. And in fact, as he says in Meditations, this isn't unfortunate that it happened to me, it's fortunate that it happened to me. And how can he turn it into account? How can he use it for fuel? And Meditations is both the reminder of that and the means by which he is doing it. And we're doing a deep dive into Meditations this month. We're calling it Meditations Month here at Daily Stoic. And if you wanna do a deep dive into the book with me, we're doing a live session here towards the end of the month. Got our digital guide to Meditations, got our leather edition of Meditations. It's on sale. We've got a bunch of stuff going on, whether it's your first time reading meditations or your 50th. I think you're gonna get a lot out of this course, out of this group thing we're doing together. I get something out of it each year that we do it, and I'd love to see you in there. Sign up right now@dailystoic.com Meditations I'll see you in the live Q and A here in just a few days. And yeah, it's just a reminder you are on the right timeline. If you make it the right time, It's pretty remarkable. Our time is our most precious resource. It's the thing we have the least of. And then we spend it in the most frivolous ways. It occurred to me just how much time I was spending getting in my car, driving across town, finding parking, going up to my therapist's office to sit down for one. I thought I was spending one hour of my time on self care, on working on myself, on thinking about things, processing stuff. But actually I was spending like an hour and a half, sometimes, sometimes two hours because the process was so inefficient. And that's where today's sponsor comes in. If you've considered going to therapy, but maybe you feel like you don't have time, you don't have the energy, or you don't have money, you should check out BetterHelp because BetterHelp makes starting therapy easy and continuing therapy easy as well. BetterHelp matches you with a therapist based on your preferences, their clinical experience, and over a decade of matching expertise. You can easily switch therapists at any time, but most of all, you can do the therapy from your own home, from your phone. Join the 6 million plus people who've gotten help from BetterHelp, the platform you can trust. You can just click the link in the description below or you head over to betterhelp.com dailystoak to get 10% off your first month of therapy. It's spring here in Texas and that means new kinds of bugs. We are dealing with it because we have a house at the bookstore, we have Tracy's up the street, our little grocery store, and we don't like bugs and the customers don't like bugs. Well, Pesti has helped make hanging outside at home more enjoyable by keeping the bugs at bay with their DIY pest control kit. The pesti kit comes with everything you need to do your own pest control pro grade pesticide. That's the same stuff that the pros use. Sprayer, mixing bag, gloves, instructions. You can even get a kit customized to the season, location and weather. And with Pesti, it starts at just $35 a treatment. With their DIY kit, there's no strangers in your house or appointments to make. Pesti gets rid of 100 types of bugs, from spiders to ants to roaches and scorpions. It's also kid and pet friendly. Get bugs out of your house with Pesty. Just go to Pesti.com stoic for an extra 10% off your order. That's Pesti.com stoic For an extra 10% off.