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956903 -- Rise And Shine It's comforting to think that even two thousand years ago the emperor of Rome (who was reportedly a bit of an insomniac) was giving himself a pep talk in order to summon up the willpower to throw the blankets off each morning and get out of bed. From the time we're sent off to school until we retire, we're faced with that same struggle. It'd be nicer to shut our eyes and hit that snooze button a few more times. But we can't. Because we have a job to do. Not only do we have our calling that we have dedicated ourselves to, but we have a larger cause that the Stoics speak about: the greater good. We cannot be our service to ourselves, to other people, or to the world unless we get up and get working--the earlier the better. "On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind--I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I am made for, the very things for which I put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It's so pleasurable. Where you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?" -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.1 #203tds

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956454 -- Turn Have To Into Get To A long To-Do list seems intimidating and burdensome--all these things we have to do in the course of a day or a week. But a Get To Do list sounds like a privilege--all the things we're excited about the opportunity to experience. This isn't just semantic playing. It is a central facet of the philosopher's world view. Today, don't try to impose your will on the world. Instead see yourself as fortunate to receive and respond to the will in the world. Stuck in traffic? A few wonderful minutes to relax and sit. Your car broke down after idling for so long? Ah, what a nice nudge to take a long walk the rest of the way. A swerving car nearly hit you as you were walking and soaked head to toe with rain? What a reminder about how precarious our existence is and how silly it is to get upset about something as trivial as being late or having trouble with your commute! Kidding aside, it might not seem like it makes a difference to see life as something you have to do versus get to do, but there is. A huge, magnificent difference. "The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony and whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen." -- Epictetus, Discourses, 2.14.7 #p200tds

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