🌱“All That Exists Is The Seed Of What Will Emerge From It.” 🌱

5 RULES to Beat PROCRASTINATION: Time-Devouring Monster vs. EPICTETUS

You know the feeling when you keep putting off your daily tasks and even your life-defining goals?

You find new excuses for your indecision, giving yourself extra time to stay inactive, almost as if you're celebrating your laziness, even though you fully understand the importance of what needs to be done.

Some people even delay their daily routines for an entire year — or for the next one!

Procrastination — the silent thief of time and potential, a relentless, time-devouring monster — often stems from a lack of mental energy, focus, or emotional readiness to tackle tasks.

To overcome it, it's important to practice patience after all — patience to watch this video all the way through to uncover how to break free from this long-lasting monstrous skill-killer and take charge of your life starting now.

REFLECTION by MARCUS AURELIUS: Does Nature Harm Its Own Components?

“Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything around you as a dream.” © Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”.

Beams of Thought of MARCUS AURELIUS: Profound Insight from MEDITATIONS

“What doesn’t transmit the light creates its own darkness.” (c) Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

Be Like a Bee! - MARCUS AURELIUS SECRET to Being Unconsciously Kind!

We are sharing best excerpt from "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius on why it is important to be kind unconsciously:

"Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren't, but they're still aware of it - still regard it as a debt. But others don't even do that. They're like a vine that produces grapes without looking for anything in return. A horse at the end of the race . . . A dog when the hunt is over . . . A bee with its honey stored . . . And a human being after helping others. They don't make a fuss about it. They just go on to something else, as the vine looks forward to bearing fruit again in season. We should be like that. Acting almost unconsciously." (c) Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations".

Enjoy, share and like!

And do not forget to subscribe for more!

While we wait for the next Welcome Home update, here is the music video for "The Nine Neighborly Gifts" commissioned by @nosignalart and @bloomynmoon.

WHAT IF Marcus Aurelius LIVED YOUR LIFE? Let's Imagine!

Reminded this excerpt from Epictetus:

 ‘I want to read Chrysippus’ treatise on the Liar.’ Is that your plan? Then go and jump in the lake and take your ridiculous plan with you. What good could come of it? Your unhappiness will persist the whole time you are reading it, and your anxiety will not abate a bit during a reading of the thing before an audience. Here’s how you behave: ‘Shall I read to you, brother, then you to me?’ ‘Man, it’s marvelous the way you write.’ ‘Well, it’s uncanny how you capture Xenophon’s style.’ ‘And you have caught Plato’s manner.’ ‘And you Antisthenes’!’ Then, having indulged each other in your fatuous fancies, you go back to your former habits: your desires and aversions are as they were, your impulses, designs and plans remain unchanged, you pray and care for the same old things. © Epictetus, “Discourses”.

"Your three components: body, breath, mind. Two are yours in trust; to the third alone you have clear title. If you can cut yourself-your mind-free of what other people do and say, of what you've said or done, of the things that you're afraid will happen, the impositions of the body that contains you and the breath within, and what the whirling chaos sweeps in from outside, so that the mind is freed from fate, brought to clarity, and lives life on its own recognizance - doing what's right, accepting what happens, and speaking the truth - If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past-can make yourself, as Empedocles says, 'a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness,' and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present) . . . then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you." (c) Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations".

Check these TOP STOIC QUOTES to Discover the TRUE POWER of Stoicism!