The Next Level awaits!

Hi, Steve Barnes here, and boy, it's gonna be a busy day. I'm experimenting with these live broadcasts. I'm seeing that they archive properly and just give me an opportunity to communicate with people more directly. These are going to be short. We do some longer ones once a week, generally speaking. But I wanted to start the pattern of communicating with people directly and saying hi as close to possible. So what I wanted to say today is that all the different technologies of life, writing and fire dance. And fire dance is the notion of doing affirmation and visualizations while you are moving. You know, you do emotional flooding. You visualize mentors while you are moving. I use Tai chi for this, but you can walk, you can do other things, but it's an extraordinarily powerful process. It's actually a form of ceremony that you can find in shamanism and aspects of neuro linguistic programming. Tony Robb work touches on it too. It's very, very ancient martial arts habit. African dance meditations have it. So assuming that you're doing that, then you are kind of in the zone in terms of what it is that we're trying to accomplish here. And I wanted to say that I want to apply this stuff to the question of what's happening next for me in my life. And what I realized was that in all three. Three major arenas of my life, whether it was my relationships, especially with my wife and my son, my career, which is, you know, writing books and television and teaching, and in my physical body, which is martial arts and yoga primarily, that I've completed certain cycles of life and that it's time to move on to the next level. And there is trepidation about this because I don't. I don't know exactly what's happening next. I don't even necessarily know exactly what those goals look like, but if I can kind of approximate what it is and kind of get a sense of this is the direction that I need to go in, then there is going to Manila in the Philippines in next February to be in a world martial arts gathering there. Is helping my son to promoting and uplifting his business. There is moving to the next level in terms of television because I'm starting. I'm trying to kind of phase out book writing in exchange for television writing because the. There are a number of different reasons why the book writing is not as remunerative. It's very rewarding that I have to think about my, you know, my life, my. My family, you know, and just what is the best trade off of an hour of time For X amount of money, you know, you have to think about things like that. So, and then in terms of my wife, I want to get to the level of greater communication there. I love her enormously, and if we're going to be partners in this next level of accomplishment, we have to be able to communicate with each other better. So if I do those three things, then I have the confidence, if I accept those three things as goals, you know, the, the martial arts in the Philippines, the helping my son in the next level, to increasing communication with my wife, to taking my career to the next level, if I accept all three of these things as valid goals, then I have to ask myself, what resources will I need, what actions will I need to take? And what it's going to boil down to is, can I design a daily program? Which were I to do that program for a hundred days or a thousand days, depending on the time frame, I would get to the goal that I need to reach. It's looking at the goal, asking what kind of person can accomplish that goal? Then asking, what does that person do every day? How do they feel? How do they represent life? And then divide that up so that one day at a time I can say, did I live my life that way? Did I not live my life that way? What went right? What went wrong? Am I having a joyful experience of life? Am I having a productive experience of life by passing the three gates? Is it true? Is it kind? Is it useful by looking at, you know, I have a goal that I need to. I've got 200 days, you know, 250 days to accomplish. I've got other goals that I have maybe, you know, 100 days, other goals that I have. A thousand days, that path is walked one day at a time. If I can do that, then I can just enjoy the journey, chop wood, carry water, do the things that are necessary to do, enjoy my life, enjoy my wife, enjoy my son, enjoy working out and training and learning, enjoy creating. And know that from a long view, everything is working out. So I hope that I'll be able to do more of these. You know, my. My wife has encouraged me to do more short visits like this, and I hope that you enjoy them. And I hope that if you want to hear more of the process of creating the perfect day, that you'll go to stephenbarneslist.com and if you want to join the fire dance program, come to Saturdays and you get on my list. Stephenbarnslist.com and you'll find out about the Saturday program free on Zoom. And if you'd like to join the Fire D program, which is more formal, you'll go to www.firedancetaichi.com take and I'll talk to you later. Bye. Bye.