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Live For Today

February 10th

“Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives. They spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future.”

—Seneca

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In the relentless pursuit of making our future lives perfect, we often overlook the value of the present moment. How often do you catch yourself meticulously planning out your days, envisioning a future where everything falls neatly into place?

It's common to get swept up in the hustle of orchestrating every detail, believing that if we can just arrange things right, our future will be better, happier, more fulfilling. But the irony here is stark; in the quest to create an ideal tomorrow, the today—with all its potential for joy and discovery—slips through our fingers, unnoticed.

Are you merely a planner, a dreamer of tomorrows that never come? Are you so busy mapping out the long road ahead that you're blind to the beauty blooming at your feet?

The biggest waste, Seneca tells us, is not in making mistakes or taking detours; it's in postponing life itself, in denying the richness of this very moment for a future that's always just out of reach.

Grab today. Live in the vibrant now, and let the future unfold from the seeds you plant in the present.

Where can you dial back on over-planning today, to make room for spontaneity and presence?

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