Morning Journal 2/10/26 · Daru Strong Club

Seth Morris

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Morning Journal 2/10/26

Today is the most important day of your life.

Count with me for ten seconds.

1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… 9… 10.

Feel the rhythm of the seconds ticking.

Feel their pace.

Tick. (Pause.)Tick. (Pause.)Tick.

You can stop counting now. Time won’t stop.

Seconds turn into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years—whether I’m ready or not.

I think often about the relationship between time and discipline. Not because discipline is hard in a moment—but because people struggle to stay disciplined across time. A single choice isn’t heavy. The weight comes from imagining all the future choices at once.

So many seconds are wasted worrying about weeks, months, or years that haven’t arrived yet. Seconds spent doubting instead of building. Minutes spent anxious instead of preparing. Days spent watching time pass instead of shaping what it becomes.

Doubt never prepared me.

Discipline always could have.

Time moves with or without my awareness.

It progresses with or without my permission.

It builds with or without my discipline.

Life keeps the same steady rhythm whether I act or not. Discipline doesn’t change time—it changes what I build while time passes.

The next year won’t arrive all at once.

It will come one second, one minute, one hour, one day at a time.

That’s where my responsibility lives.

Here.

Now.

Today.