Verba Diei IX

"Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much on tomorrow's" - Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Letters from a Stoic), Letter I

We often act as though life will wait for us, like it's something we'll get around to eventually... as if we can continuously push off responsibilities until things settle down. Seneca reminds us that the present does not belong to us. It will slip by. Choosing to procrastinate is actively forfeiting your time, will, and potential.

Don't wait to be who you are meant to be. Every time you postpone your efforts, or delay your habits - it's more than a pause - it's a loss. Life will move on, with or without you.

What matters is not speed, though, but awareness. The courage to begin. What you do today defines what you will have at all.

Today is enough. Begin.