If You Would Die Tomorrow — How did you spend your last day?

Oliver Gruener
Stoic Chronicles
Published in
2 min readApr 10, 2017

Memento Mori — Meditations 003

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius

(I am going to talk to myself)

Invest as much as time as you can in completing the tasks you set the night before or in the following morning.

Reflect on how you spent your time during the day. Do you distribute it properly? Could you work more efficiently by stripping away the steps that you don’t need? To what mindless distractions did you attend?

At the end of the day ask yourself whether or not you worked hard enough. Did you earn yourself the reward in sight?

You will die sooner than you wish and later than you think. You might as well put everything you have into the remaining days.

“You have to assemble your life yourself — action by action. And be satisfied if each one achieves its goal, as far as it can. No one can keep that from happening.” — Marcus Aurelius

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Oliver Gruener
Stoic Chronicles

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