Life's Events Like Seasons

It's day 209 of documenting 2025.

I won a major battle yesterday.

Something internal...that most people would think weird, since the norm is to give in without even realizing.

I know it's not yet over...but what I'm fighting is getting weaker.

Very soon, it won't affect me anymore.

Here she goes again 🙄

Speaking in parables...

Oops! My bad!

I didn't just know how to start today's post apart from the regular, "Happy Monday".

I'm not going to delete it tho...let it stand as a clue, a pointer to what's going on behind the scenes.

That aside, let's see what we have in today's Highlights and then we can dive into some "Monday Meditation".

See what I did there? 😄

365 Days With Self-discipline 

📌 On Finishing Quick Tasks Right Away

"My rule is never to lay down a letter until I have answered it. I dictate the reply to my secretary at once."

Quote by William L. Sadler

There exists a big temptation to put off quick tasks.  After all, they’re easy and fast to do, so why do them now? Better to batch them and take care of them later.

However, ultimately this strategy can generate more work. The reason is simple: whenever you procrastinate about a quick task, you’re actually creating two tasks: the task in itself, and the task of remembering to do it. 

True, you can note it down, but it’s still another task to do. In the end, keeping track of it can cost more time than simply doing the task right away.

Moreover, quick tasks have a tendency to accumulate, and what originally would only take 5 minutes can ultimately take 3 hours, and then it suddenly becomes a problem to find so much time to get it all done.

Finally, whether it’s a quick task or not, putting it off just because you don’t feel like doing it now creates a habit of procrastination. 

Remember that all of your behaviors contribute to who you are as a person. 

Procrastinating about small tasks leads to procrastinating about big goals.

The next time you find yourself thinking about postponing a quick task, do it right away.  Anything important that takes less than 5–10 minutes should be attended to immediately.

PS. I shared the whole note.

Key takeaway: Don't DIL, just DIN.

Which means,

Don't do it later, just do it now.

It's a Monday for crying out loud...how you start the week may sometimes dictate how it ends.

Don't start with pushing off small tasks...even as small as checking your emails (see who's talking 😏) or tidying up your workspace.

You get the point, right?

Moving on...

Meditations 

📌 Book 4

44. Everything that happens is as simple and familiar as the rose in spring, the fruit in summer: disease, death, blasphemy, conspiracy . . .everything that makes stupid people happy or angry.

45. What follows coheres with what went before. Not like a random catalogue whose order is imposed upon it arbitrarily, but logically connected. 

And just as what exists is ordered and harmonious, what comes into being betrays an order too. Not a mere sequence, but an astonishing concordance.

46. Remember Heraclitus: “When earth dies, it becomes water; water,

air; air, fire; and back to the beginning.”

“Those who have forgotten where the road leads.”

“They are at odds with what is all around them”—the all-directing logos. And “they find alien what they meet with every day.”

“Our words and actions should not be like those of sleepers” (for we act and speak in dreams as well) “or of children copying their parents”—doing and saying only what we have been told.

47. Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow "or the day after.” 

Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn’t kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? 

Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.

Real deep 😌 

Full of sensory description and carrying a lot of meaning.

But what was Marcus actually trying to say tho?

Well, here's the breakdown:

44. Life’s events; no matter how chaotic, tragic, or dramatic...are natural and repetitive, like the cycle of seasons. 

Whether it’s disease, death, or human folly, it’s not new. Getting overly excited or upset by them is a sign of immaturity or ignorance.

45. The universe isn’t random. There’s deep, interwoven logic to how things unfold. 

Everything that happens fits into a larger pattern; like notes in a grand symphony. It’s not chaos, it’s coherence.

46. Heraclitus reminds us: everything changes into something else, in a natural cycle. 

Many people forget this and resist reality, even though they encounter it daily. They behave passively or mindlessly; like sleepwalkers or children blindly mimicking others, instead of living with awareness and intention.

47. Death is death; whether it’s tomorrow or next year. If we fear it less when it’s slightly further away, that’s just an illusion. 

A wise person sees time clearly and accepts mortality without drama.

He’s urging us to live consciously, aligned with nature, and to let go of fear; especially fear of death.

Wonderful words to lead us into a productive week, right?

The lesson remains: live fully.

Don't wait for some future which you're not sure of...take control of your now.

This present moment.

What you choose to do with it determines the future you're waiting for.

#Duonsays 😄

I wish you a wonderful week ahead, my friend 

And a lovely Monday to begin with.

I hope it's all good wherever you're reading from...

If it's not, just remember: things could have been worse, but they're not.

Smile and believe that things are falling into place....because they always are 😉

I'm Duon Ada, the lady behind the screen.

I'm documenting 2025...living each day, one post at a time.

I hope I'll see you tomorrow.

Until then, peace ✌🏼