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Best Of: Are You Master of Your Domain? · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: One of the most famous episodes of Seinfeld is the contest.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: In this episode, Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer compete to see who can demonstrate self-control the longest.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: The one who wins will be known as the master of their domain.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: What are they refraining from?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you'll just have to watch the episode for yourself to find out.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the concept of self-mastery is an important one for writers.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: We spend a lot of our time obsessing over external obstacles like frustrations with technology, agents or publishers not giving us a shot, not having enough time to write, interruptions from other people, and a million other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But those are all beside the point.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: If we don't master ourselves, nothing else matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Writing success really just comes down to arranging your life to make writing and publishing a priority.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of the day, it's nothing more and nothing less.
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  SPEAKER_00: For thousands of years, the greatest minds from all religions, cultures, and walks of life have emphasized the need for self-mastery.
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  SPEAKER_00: The great artist Leonardo da Vinci once said, one can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: So while you're attempting to spend all of your time worrying about forces that want to control you from the outside, you'll get much further if you focus on mastering what's on the inside.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you've been listening to this show for any length of time, you know that one of the four practices of a great writer is creativity.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: And in order to stay creative, you've got to have great input.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where writing prompts come in.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: A writing prompt is a sentence or two that helps you break through creative blocks, brainstorm new ideas, and get back into a state of flow.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Writing prompts are an awesome creative tool for journaling, storytelling, creative writing, stress relief, social media posts, and so much more.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: But the great news is that you don't have to create these yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've put together an amazing package of 365 daily writing prompts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every day for the next year, you can have a shot of inspiration delivered straight to your inbox.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: You can check it out at dailywriterlife.comslash writing prompts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.