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LIFEWRITING LIVE tomorrow…but your new life begins today!

4 min readApr 3, 2025

Just improve your morning ritual by 1% today. That’s all you have to do.

Just get a little better at your breathing breaks.

A little better at checking your goals in the morning and at night. A little better at clarifying your WHAT and WHY before you ever ask “how?”

If you have enough WHY to rip the blinders off, to drive you to a new level of CLARITY, you will see possibilities and opportunities.

If you ground your WHY in survival, in growth, in love and service, in gaining wealth…in artistic expression, you touch the “third rail” of human motivation. If you never fight for anything you aren’t willing to die for, you take your brakes off (so be careful how you define success! Be sure you include the Three Centers for balance, and the Three Gates for morality and ethics).

WHY do you want your goals? WHY do you want a healthier body, family, more (or ANY!) self-love, success, or writing life?

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Today, we slam the “MAGIC Formula” against Think And Grow Rich again. Yep, I do this every damned day. Just don’t always talk about it.

Thursday is INTENTION day. Goals. They must be clear, photographable, real enough to touch and taste and smell. Write them every morning, read them every night.

With TAGR, we’re talking ACCEPTING the challenge. And this comes at the moment you associate more PAIN to inaction than to…

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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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