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Half Full or Half Empty? · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lessons are inspired by great artists, authors, and thinkers, both past and present.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person?
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  SPEAKER_00: If your answer is that you're a glass half empty kind of a person, it means you tend to focus on what you lack.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your answer is that you're a glass half full kind of person, it means you tend to focus on what you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the answer is not about what's inside the glass.
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is what's inside of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really comes down to how you see the world, which also affects how you perceive your writing and your potential for success.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a writer, you can look at the world in one of two ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first way is to focus on what you lack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you lack a big audience, a book contract, the time you'd like to use for writing, maybe you lack a certain amount of income, or the connections that you think you need, and so on and so on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You spend a lot of emotional energy worrying and complaining about what everybody else seems to have but you seem to lack.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you don't make much progress because you have a negative mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the second way is completely the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second way is all about focusing on what you do have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And make no mistake, in the history of the world, writers have never had it better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us have no concept of how good we have it as writers today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's take a moment to take stock of what you have as a writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, you have the ability to use a free blog, free social media, or free video platforms to reach literally anybody in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, you have the world's most advanced, sophisticated communications and productivity device right there in your pocket at all hours of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course I'm talking about your smartphone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, you have the ability to connect with almost anybody in the world instantly through the internet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, you have access to more books and more knowledge than the world has ever known, and the vast majority of it is either free or very inexpensive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And number five, you have more options for publishing your work than anybody in the history of the world has ever known.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, those are just a few things that you have as a writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This list could go on much, much longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Stoic philosopher Epictetus once said, He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today, on this day of Thanksgiving, take stock of all the blessings you have, because the glass is not half empty, the glass is completely full.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to the Daily Rider Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate your support and hope you enjoyed this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find more at Daily Rider Life.com