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Winter has a way of lulling us into bad habits and old vices. Like bears in hibernation, we're burrowed deep in our comfortable routines. We found our favorite spot on the couch, our go-to delivery meals, our perfectly temperature-controlled environments. We've mastered the art of avoiding the cold, the wind, the discomfort. They call this the velvet rut, and it's soft and pleasant, but it's still a rut.
And yeah, after months of dark mornings and early sunsets, after trudging through slush and scraping ice off windshields, it's reasonable to seek shelter in these comfortable patterns. But the Stoics remind us that true growth requires resistance. Just as seedlings must break through the soil, we must break through and out these patterns. Nature doesn't stay dormant forever. Neither should we.
The idea is that we move with the seasons and we must face the brisk winds of change head on. And that's what the Spring Forward Challenge that we do each spring with Daily Stoic is about. Not quick fixes, but it is about getting set for spring. And with 10 days of Stoic-inspired challenges, one per morning, the idea is that you'll clear away some of winter's accumulated habits, just as you would clear dead leaves from the garden.
You can plant new patterns that will grow and flourish throughout the year. Yeah, the world is crazy right now. But as Marcus Aurelius reminds us, these external circumstances don't define us. It's our response to them that does. And we have the power to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
Stop wandering about, Marcus says to himself in meditations, perhaps on the eve of a seasonal change like this one. He says, get busy with life's purpose. Toss aside your empty hopes. Get active in your own rescue. If you care for yourself at all, he says, do it while you can. This is the time. Do it now. We'd love to have you join us and thousands of Stoics all over the world in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.
The idea is it's going to help you with anxiety and stress, how to be present, how to get after it, how to get active in your own rescue, as Marcus really said. So we'd love to have you join us and we'd love to have you stop procrastinating. Break out, break free, get cleaning, challenge yourself. And you can sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash spring. We start in less than 24 hours.
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for the 2025 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. Let's start off spring with a bang. I'll see you in there. If you like The Daily Stoic and thanks for listening, you can listen early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And before you go, would you tell us about yourself by filling out a short survey on wondery.com slash survey.