Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius!

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.”

—Marcus Aurelius

 

Today I will face adversity.

Today I will deal with stress.

Today I will hold people’s lives in my hands.

Today I will meet difficulty.

Today I will face impossibility.

Today I will tell someone that they are dying.

Today I will tell someone that there is no cure.

Today I will offer consolation.

Today I will listen.

Today I will offer advice.  Good and bad.

Today I will offer encouragement.

Today I will drink coffee.

Today I will enjoy the sun.

Today I will stitch wounds. Inner and outer.

Today I will be grateful for one more day to do these things.

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