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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 stelics remind us that true growth requires resistance. Just as seedlings must break through the soil, we must break through and out these patterns. Water 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 Rilius reminds us, these are the best these external circumstances don't define us. It's a 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't. This is the time. Do it now.
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