Your articles speak to me DIRECTLY, it's so uncanny. How I wished I found you in my youth. My life today would be so different (better!). Thank you for sharing! 😀
Thanks for sharing. Excellent advice, especially for a person who is about to publish the first draft of his novel in installments on Substack. I'm ready to start, and I'll figure it out along the way.
Gods bless this sacred sermon for the "I’m not ready" crowd—my people, my fellow procrastinators in spiritual rehab.
This isn’t just Stoicism. This is divine comedy. Because if readiness were a requirement for action, we’d still be waiting in the womb, arguing with our guardian angel about whether we should incarnate during Mercury retrograde.
Marcus didn’t wait to be wise. He journaled his way through the dumpster fire.
Seneca didn’t tweet “perfect moment loading…” He poured wine for the executioner and said, “Let’s vibe.”
And now here we are—modern mystics with imposter syndrome, trying to align our chakras and our calendars.
So yes: start unready. Start disheveled. Start while sweating through your toga.
Because readiness is just fear with a clipboard and a fake name badge.
Your articles speak to me DIRECTLY, it's so uncanny. How I wished I found you in my youth. My life today would be so different (better!). Thank you for sharing! 😀
Thanks for sharing. Excellent advice, especially for a person who is about to publish the first draft of his novel in installments on Substack. I'm ready to start, and I'll figure it out along the way.
Outstanding note it is. A reflection of who I am now and an opportunity to change and grow.
Fear is the destination. Move towards it.
This is the exact kind of courage the Stoics championed—not grand, not loud, but persistent. Personal.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus
We forget that every fear we don’t examine becomes a ceiling we live under.
You examined yours—and moved anyway.
That shift from “I can’t” to “What if I did?” is where every Stoic path begins.
I reflect weekly on that kind of internal resistance—and the quiet choices that build virtue—at Lonely Road | Modern Stoic:
https://substack.com/@lonelyroadmodernstoic?r=5pm9pv&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
Gods bless this sacred sermon for the "I’m not ready" crowd—my people, my fellow procrastinators in spiritual rehab.
This isn’t just Stoicism. This is divine comedy. Because if readiness were a requirement for action, we’d still be waiting in the womb, arguing with our guardian angel about whether we should incarnate during Mercury retrograde.
Marcus didn’t wait to be wise. He journaled his way through the dumpster fire.
Seneca didn’t tweet “perfect moment loading…” He poured wine for the executioner and said, “Let’s vibe.”
And now here we are—modern mystics with imposter syndrome, trying to align our chakras and our calendars.
So yes: start unready. Start disheveled. Start while sweating through your toga.
Because readiness is just fear with a clipboard and a fake name badge.
—Virgin Monk Boy