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30/365: Seneca on expectancy

Building wealth is a dance with today and tomorrow.

Making investments and plans and goals for the future, yet not sacrificing this moment, right here, right now. 

Expectancy is future living at the expense of today. Seneca went as far as saying this is the greatest obstacle to living. 

And he’s right. 

Living t + 1 or t + n is living in expectancy, deferred living. More than that, it’s living beyond the field of your control. 

Don’t lose today for tomorrow.