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Helping Yourself, Helping Others

Steven Barnes
5 min readSep 29, 2020

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Realizing that I’m not finished with Jason, and that going deeply into the personal history that drove decisions and actions in a book would demand that I put his business out in the street in a way I’m not comfortable with, and KNOWING that he wouldn’t be ready to participate in such a project now means that it might, in my judgement, take five years before he’s at such a point gives me pause.

Because, IF we’ve made the breakthrough, I feel it critical to document as much as possible. So…hmmm. Here’s what I’ll do. I’m going to speak of the process more theoretically, and illustrating with anecdotes, many but not all of which will directly involve Jason. And I’ll publish it in pieces.

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First: use the Five Minute Miracle and Morning Ritual until you’ve mastered them. Then help your client or child do the same. Start there, and until you have integrated these practices into yourself, don’t even worry about what comes next.

That’s it. Now…let’s get granular.

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The organizing structure is Lifewriting: the intersection of the Hero’s Journey and the Chakras. The Chakras represent the different stages/levels of integration, the HJ the path between them.

I’ll wobble back and forth. When I collect these all together, I’ll find ways to streamline.

The best first step probably relates to two things:

  1. “Six Human Needs Technology”, created by Cloe Madanes and…

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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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