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QOD:“Who’s one person I need to thank for helping me get here?”

1 min readJul 30, 2025

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Incantation: “I thank the ones who’ve gone before. I blaze a path to follow.”

Five Breaths, five times a day

Reread goals twice a day.

Report results to another person

YELLOW BELT AND ABOVE:

Add five morning minutes

BREATHE

Focus on one of the MAGIC aspects every day. Rotate five days a week focusing on your role model, the 3 most important actions of the day/week, Gratitude, your Goals, and your core identity.

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If I look back over my life, my primary gratitude is to my mother, whose love taught me I was lovable, and who convinced me that success leaves clues, and that if you use the same recipes, you’ll cook the same banquet.

Then Steve Muhammad, who gave me a path to being a warrior, and a man. To owning my body, and my heart.

And Larry Niven, who together with Jerry Pournelle opened the door to my mind and my art…and therefore my heart.

Without these angels, I’d never have lived the life I have. SO much to be grateful for. Being grateful for what you already have makes faith in tomorrow easy. And faith is the antidote for fear.

The “5x5” program is free, and will allow you to test this path in a single hour. Just try the “White Belt” level for two weeks, five days a week. Measure your results. Didn’t you get more done, more joyfully?

If so…please join us as www.lifewrite.com and start your own 5x5, and then your 5x5x5.

Memento Mori

Steve

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Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes

Written by Steven Barnes

NY Times bestselling author Steven Barnes lives in Southern California with his wife Tananarive Due and son Jason. www.lifewrite.com and www.warrior-walk.com