I used to be the king of "I'll start Monday." You know what I'm talking about, right? Monday I'll eat better. Monday I'll call my Mom back. Monday I'll finally have that difficult conversation I've been avoiding for three weeks.
Then Monday would come and I'd find another excuse. "Well, this Monday is already shot because of that early meeting, so... next Monday for sure."
The Stoics would have laughed at me. Not in a mean way, but in that gentle way you laugh at someone doing something you used to do too. Because they figured out something I was missing: yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, but today? Today is cash in hand.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: "Confine yourself to the present." Not because the future doesn't matter, but because the future is literally built from what you choose to do right now, in this moment, today.
Here's what really gets me about this - we act like we're saving up our good choices for some perfect moment that's never going to come. Like we're waiting for the stars to align before we can be the person we want to be.
But what if today was enough? What if this imperfect Tuesday, with its messy schedule and less-than-ideal circumstances, was actually the perfect day to start being who you want to become?
'Choose Today' carries that Stoic wisdom with you - each tap of the tag to your phone reveals insights about the power of present-moment decisions from hundreds of wonderfully curated quotes from some of the wisest men to have ever lived.
Because every single day, you get to choose again. Not perfectly, not with all the information, not when you feel ready - but you get to choose.
The Stoics knew that waiting for the perfect moment to live intentionally is just another way of choosing not to live at all.
So here's my question for you: what are you putting off until Monday that you could choose today?
