1 Stoic a DayOne idea. One minute.

Home / Today / Seneca

Today’s Stoic
Let us order our minds as if we had come to the end of our days.
Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase
What it means today

The end of life is the clearest vantage point. From there, the important and the trivial sort themselves instantly. Order your mind now the way you would at the end, and you will not waste the middle.

Try this todayMake one decision today as if you were looking back on your life from the end.
Today’s questionFrom the end of my life, would this choice look wise?
#mortality#priority#wisdom
XFacebookWhatsAppShare today’s Stoic

Related Stoic ideas

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca · Letters from a Stoic

← Back to today’s Stoic