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Enjoy our first “radio” play: THE WALKER

Steven Barnes
3 min readApr 9, 2025

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Wednesday is “Gratitude” day. In TAGR, we are dealing with “Specialized Knowledge.”

I am grateful to HAVE specialized knowledge about success, performance, and health to help myself and my family and community.

And THAT means I have to be grateful for even the painful events in my life that forced me to learn these things. As my brother Patric Young says when the shit hits the fan, “thank you, God, for giving me another opportunity to discover who I really am.”

THAT is a warrior attitude: use it all. ‘

I’m also grateful for the Mentors who allowed me to research their motions, emotions, and strategies. And one common strategy is CONSTANT LEARNING. Every day, learning one new thing to move you forward another 1%.

See how the circle closes? Except its not a circle, it’s a spiral. And the spiral always either rises or falls. Can’t stay still. That understanding is something I’m grateful for as well.

Every day, learn more about gratitude. Gain SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE about how to shift your emotions. And I know my emotions are created by how I move, what I focus on, and the language I use to describe my experience.

Gratitude is focus. No question: I have to think about what I’m happy to have in my life, otherwise the world will trick me into paying attention to what is IMPERATIVE rather than what is IMPORTANT.

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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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