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2022 Musings and Tim Ferris

Steven Barnes
5 min readDec 30, 2021

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Putting time and energy into planning my New Years Resolutions. And taking inventory of my current position.

  1. Physical. Feel great, and may have made some serious break-throughs in training. More on this later, but it sure is fun.
  2. Career. The only CERTAIN things are two graphic novels and a short story due to come out in 2022. But I have great optimism about a host of other possibilities.
  3. Relationship. I feel at peace with myself, and have integrated losses. Been a lot of death in the last two years, but I’m still here. And I may have hooked up with Little Stevie more powerfully. I’ll get back to that. With T, the “Blessing Dance” has been…a blessing. We are communicating better, which is critical if we want to raise our game to the next level in 2022. We have to be each other’s “Mastermind” even more deeply. Jason seems on the verge of a breakthrough. If I just see him as being about three years younger than his physical age, I think I won’t get frustrated. The task now is to really anchor in the success principles we’ve been working with.

That’s my only advantage, IMO. It wasn’t money, or parental connections, or an intact home, or social status. It was that my mother introduced me to Think and Grow Rich, The Strangest Secret, The Golden Key, Acres of Diamonds, Psycho-Cybernetics and the like. She infected me. I’m passing the fever to my son. If he can integrate these things, he will out-perform people smarter, better educated and better connected by birth. You can counter those…

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Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes

Written by Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.

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