You Can Seize This Moment

<p>This is an email we weren’t expecting to send, but sometimes sudden events call for sudden responses. </p><p>Right now you, and much of the world, are locked down, doing your part to fight the spread of COVID-19. Perhaps you’ve already been trapped inside for weeks. Perhaps you just got back the test results and now you are in complete isolation. Perhaps your job has furloughed you and you’ve got a lot of time on your hands. </p><p>Things seem serious now, but the truth is, it’s only going to get <em>more</em> serious. </p><p>All of us are looking at the potential for some serious<em> lost</em> time. Dead time, as Robert Greene calls it. But do we have to be? A Stoic knows that while we don’t control what happens, we do <em>control</em> <em>how we respond.</em> So that’s the real question: How can we use this time to get better? To grow? To be of service and use?   To create “alive time” where we’re actively getting better.</p><p>With that end in mind, we have been scrambling to put together what we’re calling the <a href='https://dailystoic.com/alivetime'>Daily Stoic Alive Time Challenge: Resilience, Productivity and Service in the Time of Coronavirus</a>. It’s 14 days—the length of the suggested quarantine—of Stoicism-inspired challenges, practices and reading that will help you grow and help you help others. </p><p>If you’ve done any of our other challenges over the last two years, you know we pack them full of great content, actionable advice, and strategies to make the habits stick. This one will be all that… and incredibly timely. We’re taking our best material and the best insights from the Stoics and organizing it to help you make the most of this time we have. Why shouldn’t you emerge from this process having at least wrested from it some real advantages? Why would you kill time when you could be <em>seizing</em> that time? Why not use it to create better habits and a better perspective?</p><p>Since there is little time to lose, we are putting the challenge on sale right now and starting it this comin