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FIREDANCE (ninety minutes later)

Steven Barnes
3 min readApr 6, 2023

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Heading to Norwescon (my favorite convention of the year). in a few hours. I’ll be seeing people, signing books, and teaching Firedance and being careful to wear my mask a LOT.

But in the midst of this, I have a panel at noon that sits right in the middle of my FIREDANCE time. So I’ll do it at 1:30 Pacific instead of noon.

That’s 1:30.

I honestly believe I’ve whipped my physical training schedule, and it’s terrific. So I have to bring up the other aspects of my life, with the intention to weaponize BOTH the energy and the quest for that energy. And that means moving from the body to the heart.

How is my FEAR connected to my core goals of body, relationships, and career?

There is fear of the unknown, resentment for unfair obstacles that were placed in my way, fear I will fail, and so on.

Love? Each of my goals is ABSOLUTELY connected to the other goals, so that body affects relationships and career, relationships affect body and career, and career affects body and relationships. And since “body” is connected directly to survival drives, this means infinite motivation.

If I look at any arena of my life where I have non-optimal results, there are only a few possible reasons:

  1. I didn’t have a clear goal
  2. I didn’t take action
  3. I didn’t understand the situation
  4. I overestimated my capacity to accomplish it

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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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