You could wait for the perfect moment. You could wait for things to get clearer. You could wait, as we’ve been saying for years now, ​for things to go back to normal.​

Or you could get started.

​You could stop being the fool​—the one that Seneca talks about, the one who is always getting ready. You could start demanding, as Epictetus instructed—​the best for yourself​. You could stop lying (​it’s the biggest lie in the world​, we said in a Daily Stoic video, “I’ll do it in the morning.”)

Do it now. Get started. Begun is half done. Do it now. ​Tempus fugit​. ​Memento mori​. You can’t know that you’ll get another chance. The time that passes, the opportunities you pass on—they are as good as dead. You are a little bit more dead.

Don’t do it later. Do it now. Today.