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Memento mori

Meditating on your mortality is only depressing if you miss the point. The Stoics find this thought invigorating and humbling depending on the situation you're in (highs and lows).

Seneca urged us to tell ourselves “You may not wake up tomorrow,” when going to bed and “You may not sleep again,” when waking up as reminders of our mortality.

Or as another Stoic, Epictetus, urged his students: “Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible - by doing so, you'll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” Use those reminders and meditate on them daily - let them be the building blocks of living your life to the fullest and not wasting a second.

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Amor fati

This is a exercise and mindset that you take on for making the best out of anything that happens: Treating each and every moment, no matter how challenging, as something to be embraced, not avoided. To not only be okay with it, but love it and be better for it.

So that like oxygen to a fire, obstacles and adversity become fuel for your potential.

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Carpe diem

You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty-four hours with which to take it. And then it is gone and lost forever. This date will never come back. As Seneca says:

Let us therefore set out whole-heartedly, leaving aside our many distractions and exert ourselves in this single purpose, before we realize too late the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind. As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession.

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