How Has Your Week Been?

Hi there. Steve Barnes here. Just checking in, trying to do that as often as possible. Looking forward to the weekend, and what I wanted to say to you or ask you is, how's your week been? I think that at the end of every week, it's a good idea to kind of look back and see whether or not you had fun, see whether or not you connected with the people that you love, see whether or not you made steps towards your ultimate goals. I mean, at the beginning of the year, I like to ask myself, you know, what happened in the last year? Did I move closer to my goals, what I need to do to get more on track? But I also like to do that every month, every week, at the end of every day. Ultimately, if you do that, like, let's say using a journal. I use a journal like this one every morning, every night, I make it out and ask me questions about who I am, what I am, what I'm committed to. These are very, very useful things to do. I mean, you know, one set of questions is, did I live? Did I love? Did I matter? So, you know, or you could look at the three gates, you know, was it true? Did I speak truth today? Was it kind? Was I kind to people today? There are a lot of people who feel that there's no compassion. Who, you know, you never know who's hanging on by your fingernails is the way I put it. So being kind to people whenever you have the opportunity to can be one of the greatest blessings, and it's also good for you. Quite often, the way out of your depression or you're feeling stuck is by asking who you can contribute to. I know that that's really, really important to me. So when I wake up in the morning, it's like, you know, well, what can I do for my. My wife? What can I do for my son? What can I do when I come on to Facebook? Anybody who knows me knows that I spend time hanging out on Facebook trying to see who can I help, what can I get involved in? But I also get my work done. So the last thing, is it useful. Did you take steps towards becoming the person that you are committed to being? You should know what the minimum steps are that you need to take. For me, my minimum steps might be writing a sentence a day. Although, honestly, when I'm working, my minimum steps is more like five pages a day. But if I actually five pages would be the optimum. You know, 10 pages is pushing it. Even if I'm doing different kinds of things, I can feel that there is a Limit to how many days I can do that in a row, how many weeks I could do that in a row before I started feeling overstressed. But if I know that every day I have to do at least a sentence, then I can make my. I can make my life, you know, one success after another. So Bob Race says it's been a great week, and that's great. You've had some challenges and opportunities, and I love hearing that. And thanks for your positive influence. It is my great pleasure and honor if I model excellence. I just noticed that the masters who I model, they're always doing. They're always learning, and they're always sharing. That's what I see. They're standing right in the middle of this road. They're taking in new material. They're doing it, and they're passing it back to the people who are coming behind them. They also think more about the path itself than where they are on the path. In other words, it's like, you know, was I on the path? Did I take steps? And the path is a little bit, you know, like one of those slide walks. If you're going backwards on a slidewalk, entropy will grind you down. It'll just steal your life if you try to stand still. You have to keep moving forward. So did I live? Did I love? Did I matter? You know, did I tell the truth? Was I kind? Was I efficient and effective? Did I take a step forward? If it takes small things, small things to move you forward. In other words, I have to do, in terms of my mental state. I need to do my morning ritual, which is Tai Chi, combined with incantations, which are affirmations spoken aloud. Those things relate to the magic formula. I need a model or map. I have to take constant action. I need to feel gratitude every day. I need to have a clear intention and. And I need to have confidence or courage that I can and should do this. If I do that. If I look at that every day and I think, this has been a good day, I've helped people. I've moved my life forward. I move my own discipline forward. It's been a good week. I look at what I accomplished this week, and I had it broken down to, if I can live 52 weeks like this, I'll be much closer to my goal. I'll be increasing myself by 1% a week, which is great. That's just 50% a year. 50% a year multiplies pretty fast. If you want faster progress than that, you can aim at doing 1% a day. Now that's tricky and it's subjective. But if you every day are paying attention to success principles like in the Burchard stuff, I like his stuff partially. I like Brendon Burchard not because he speaks to me more than anybody else has, but because the other members of my team, which in this particular case is, you know, my wife, my son, my business partners, they like him too. So that gives us a common language. So he has six principles. It's clarity, energy, urgency, productivity, honesty, or not honesty, but influence and courage. So clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence and courage. So you can look at those things. If you worked at proving those every day and also following the magic formula, Magic formula kind of gets you in the game. But high performance habits and things like Musashi Miyamoto's principles and other things have to do with moving you forward. So if there are a couple of models that you're following from people who you respect, people who have accomplished the things that you choose to accomplish, starting approximately from where you started, you can make that 1% per day. But if you can't do, if you, if that's too much, if that's too much stress, then aim at 1% a week. That's kind of a. Kind of a stroll. 1% a week. But that'll get you there. That'll get you where you're going. Anyway, I just kind of wanted to share these things with you. I've got a busy weekend coming up tomorrow. I'm probably going to go catch a movie today, do my son's. My meeting with my son at 2 o' clock and then I'll get my basic work done, which will be five pages of translating script to text, maybe five pages of a script, that would be ten pages of stuff. But it's different parts of my brain slightly, so I think I can do that. And it's kind of gearing myself up for all the work that is about to come. Because there's a number of things that are happening in Hollywood right now that if I was not completely confident in my ability to handle them, I would panic. I've panicked in the past. You know, I don't know if I've told the story about my first Twilight Zone episode, my first Outer Limits episode. They said it was the best they'd ever seen. And then when I had to try to follow up with it, I blew it. I panicked. I froze. So you have to learn how to move forward at a pace that will allow you to sustain your progress, a pace that will allow you to sustain your Growth in terms of creating material productivity and in terms of improving performance. So both of those things at the same time. If I get slammed by Hollywood, five pages a day, working six days a week is about. Is about 300, 300 times five. That's 1500 pages of raw material. That's a lot of raw material. I think that's right. And If I did 10 pages, well, that's more than anybody ever needs. So five pages of material a day, six days a week, and five days a week, that's about 1200 pages a year. I'm not, you know, the math isn't. Isn't coming to me perfectly right now. But you say yourself, if I stay on this process, if I stay on this path and I get slammed for work, would I be able to handle it? Would I be able to sit in the center of the storm? And what you do is you prepare yourself for that. Because if you're not prepared for success, then you will actually risk sabotaging your own success because you're afraid of what might happen. You know, you're afraid that you'll finally get the opportunity for your dream and you're going to blow it. And so then you'll be ashamed and you'll feel guilty and you'll feel silly. So may it be better just to never get that opportunity. So you Sabotage, Sabotage, sabotage. You know, for me, I'm looking at the fact that there's a very good chance that what is about to happen in my life is exactly what I've been aiming for for decades, Decades. You understand what I'm saying? That this is the moment that I've been preparing myself for. If that is true, that I need to be sure that I'm at my best. I need to be sure that my team is at their best. I need to be sure that if I just kind of keep strolling in this direct, five pages a day is a stroll for me. That's five pages a day of creating script. That's not counting how much rewrite time it's going to take. So if I aim at five pages a day, if I've been pushing myself to do 10 pages a day, then five pages of original material plus rewriting is about the same amount of psychological stress. And so if I understand that that's the stress, then how do I have to center myself so that stress does not become strain? So that's the whole thing. That's all I kind of wanted to say right now, today. And, you know, said Mo Barnes said, thank you for your knowledge. Hi, Mo, you got your LLC this week. Push that 1%. Good, man. That's what I like to hear. That's what I like to hear. And thank me for my work on Fusion. You know, I really enjoyed Fusion. And so it was a five part, I think, comic book, graphic novel and I intend to do more of that right now. I've got a graphic novel come. I've got two graphic novels coming out this year. And so this is a time where I want to be as fertile as possible, but also have fun. I mean, a lot of fun. Why do it if you're not going to have fun? You know, I'm aware of the errors I made in the past. I'm aware that when I let fear or ego or other things stand between me and my success, I'm not willing, I'm not voluntarily going down that road again. So the question of what road should I follow? Well, I've got better allies that I've ever had before. I know more than I've ever known. My energy and clarity seem good. I like my energy. I can't push my body the way I used to 30 years ago, but I don't need to to accomplish the same thing. So, you know, that all feels good in terms of my family, you know, totally in love with my wife, adore my kids. That seems to be healthy. So all systems are go. This is going to be fun. You take care. I will talk to you. Oh, Jeff Jefferson Weekly said thanks. Every so often I catch these live. Good seeing you. It's good seeing you too. And Jesse ville. Oh, Hoskin, I'm sorry, Heiskin, I'm sorry if I mispronounce your name. It's great to see you guys too. Take care. Have a wonderful weekend and I'll talk to you next week. Bye.