I had my right hip replaced on Aug 21. In 108 days from that event, I plan to be healed. If you want to see how I'm organizing body, mind and heart join me as I journal.
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If you can breathe five times, five times a day, keep at least 5 minutes in the morning sacred to your own spirit, read your goals 2x a day and share your results with a partner...you can transform your life.
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Today's Affirmation: “I Am In Control of My Mind, My Energy, and My Choices.”
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QOD:
"What’s one past failure I haven’t learned from yet?"
For me, its arguing with sleepers and snakes. No. I must care for myself, and nurture my tribe. Those are people willing and able to take the first step, with gratitude and focus.
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QOD: What truths are we softening—for others’ comfort—that our younger selves needed to hear raw?
Observing the dying, the Sufi seem right: we all get that clarity at the end.
The rarest, most courageous thing isn’t facing the end… it’s fully showing up for the journey.
Memento vivere. (Remember to live.)
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QOD: What's one resource I already have that I'm not using?
"You're one of us."
That’s what the mentors say when they recognize you’re on the same path. Are you moving in a direction where those words could be spoken to you?
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Goals aren’t targets—they are MRI scans for your soul.
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Losers will focus on the impossibility of seeing the last step before they've taken the first.
Winners take small steps every day, learning every time.
QOD: "What’s one thing I could finish today that would shock my past self?"
Real tools aren’t just personal—they’re reparations. Master them, and you rebuild what centuries tried to break.
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Metaphors are how we swallow truth without choking.
Until you take full responsibility for what you CAN change, it is unwise to worry about that you CANNOT.
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Enlightenment isn’t a transcendent state—it’s the absence of bullshit.
Question of the Day, August 5: "What comfortable lie am I telling myself about why I ‘can’t’?"
Applying this to your current story might break a logjam. "What comfortable lie does my lead character tell himself about why he can't?"
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"Ethics without discipline is just poetry."
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QOD:
"Who’s one person I need to thank for helping me get here?"
GRATITUDE creates faith in your future. Faith is the antidote for fear.
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"You are the result of your first five morning habits"--Jim Rohn
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QOD: "What’s one ‘necessary evil’ (task, conversation) I’ve been delaying?"
Write down your answer. Share it with your partner, or on social media.
"you don't create your morning. Your morning creates you.
10 minutes of silence and you hear yourself. 10 minutes with a pen and your day has direction. 10 minutes of movement, and your brain turns on. 3 minutes of gratitude and your heart is aligned."--Jim Rohn
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Most horror writing fails. Ours did…until we cracked the code. Tomorrow I'll break down the most important scene in our movie THE KEEPER, the one that "trapped" the viewer. If you aren't on my email list, join now at: www.stevenbarneslist.com
QOD:
(Write down your answer. Share it with your accountability partner, on social media, or write it down and burn it)
"What’s one truth about myself I’ve been refusing to admit?"
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Every human being who ever changed the world for the better had POWER. They just used it with beauty and love. Power is just the ability to do work. That's it.
What work do you want to do? Remember there is one consistent human goal: escape suffering, embrace joy, be of service.
Inner peace is not the absence of problems. It is the presence of perspective.
"Power corrupts" is propaganda created by corrupt people to scare the virtuous into surrender.
Truth: Power reveals. Absolute power reveals absolutely.
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Alien 3 was vile. The most obvious ugliness: they use a fluoroscope to find an Alien queen in Ripley. A question: if they had a fluoroscope, why perform an autopsy on Newt? One reason: to make the audience squirm. That's right, they mutilated a dead child for the entertainment value.
Otis Johnson has revealed he's sold ELEVEN stories since joining Lifewriting, less than a year ago. THAT is amazing. Join us on www.lifewrite.com (free!) and check out the writing section, where he spills the tea.
