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Write a New Ending to Your Story · The Daily Writer

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
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SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyRiderLife.com.
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SPEAKER_00: On May 21, 1990, audiences tuned in to the series finale of the CBS show Newhart.
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SPEAKER_00: They probably expected a standard final episode that wrapped up the eight-season run telling the story of Dick Louden, a Vermont innkeeper played by Bob Newhart and the oddball cast of characters who populated the show.
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SPEAKER_00: This was not Bob Newhart's first foray into the world of sitcoms.
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SPEAKER_00: He had previously starred in another successful series, the Bob Newhart Show, which ran for six seasons in the 1970s.
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SPEAKER_00: In the second to last scene of the Newhart finale, Bob stands in the doorway of his inn and gets hit with a golf ball, knocking him unconscious.
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SPEAKER_00: Then in the final scene, much to the surprise and delight of the audience, he wakes up in bed next to his wife from the Bob Newhart show and explains that he had a strange dream about being an innkeeper.
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SPEAKER_00: It was an absolutely brilliant way to tie the two series together, and it's also considered one of the best series finales in TV history.
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SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
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SPEAKER_00: Surprise endings work in real life too.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe up to this point you've lived on a certain pathway of tempered expectations or muted dreams.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe nobody has expected much out of you.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe you don't expect much out of yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're hoping just to scrape by, and if you get lucky, something good will eventually come along.
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SPEAKER_00: But here's the cool part.
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SPEAKER_00: You can write a new ending that surprises everybody, including yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: You can choose your pathway, and you can rise to the occasion by taking charge of your life and writing a new ending to your story.
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SPEAKER_00: So don't let anybody else determine your ending.
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SPEAKER_00: It's for you and you alone to choose.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's today's question.
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SPEAKER_00: Have you decided to take charge of your life direction?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, before I wrap up here, I want to let you know that today's episode is brought to you by the Daily Writer Club.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, hang with me here for a second.
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SPEAKER_00: If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you've heard me promote the Daily Writer Club before, and you've heard me talk about the Elvis book that's coming out, and you've heard me promote a few other things along the way.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've and I've got a script, by the way, that I follow with these, and I try not to make it sound like I'm reading a script, but I am, because I want to make sure and get the details in here.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm going to go off script today and just kind of ditch all that.
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to tell you something that I have seen with writers over the years, uh particularly the last two or three years, as I have really gotten more into this job on a full-time basis.
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SPEAKER_00: So here's what I've seen.
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SPEAKER_00: People who try to go to loan are not successful.
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SPEAKER_00: And I know that sounds harsh, and I know that probably sounds judgmental or whatever, but that is just the honest to God truth.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that just what I see is that the writers who are successful, they are part of a team, not necessarily a team of people writing books together, but they are a team of people, whether that takes the shape of a mastermind group of some kind of community or uh or whatever shape that that may take, that can look like a whole bunch of different things potentially.
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SPEAKER_00: But the bottom line is that if you're trying to do this thing alone, if you're trying to be a writer alone and be successful on your own without running with the horses, as the Bible would put it, without running with a pack of people who are they're wanting to achieve things.
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SPEAKER_00: They have goals, they they're there to pick you up and help you, and you can help them.
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SPEAKER_00: If you don't have a group of people like that, you're just not going to be successful.
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SPEAKER_00: And I hate to put it that way so bluntly, but I think it's, you know, I I've always said on this show that I have an obligation to tell the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: And I am just kind of brutally honest with people because I believe the most kind and loving thing that you can do to somebody else is just tell them the brutal, honest to God truth.
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SPEAKER_00: And as I see it, that is the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna be successful if you're trying to, you know, get in your uh author plane and fly solo across the country with no help from anybody else.
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SPEAKER_00: It just ain't gonna happen, my friend.
4:17
SPEAKER_00: So this is why I created the Daily Rider Club.
4:20
SPEAKER_00: Now, I know when you tune into podcasts and you hear people promote things, it's like, oh, they're just kind of promoting their thing and you know, they make money from it.
4:28
SPEAKER_00: And that's true of the Daily Rider Club.
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SPEAKER_00: I do make money from it.
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SPEAKER_00: But the honest truth is that I did not want to start this club.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: Back a couple years ago, I had a lot of projects going on.
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SPEAKER_00: I was still in my college job, and a good friend of mine, Vincent Puglisi, at a retreat, at a business retreat, challenged me to go ahead and start, even though I didn't feel ready.
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SPEAKER_00: And I actually started this community sort of reluctantly.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't really want to do it, but I but he said, if you feel like you can help writers and you don't do it, you're actually doing them a disservice.
4:58
SPEAKER_00: So basically he was saying, if you think you can help people by doing this thing, you kind of have a moral responsibility.
5:05
SPEAKER_00: You have an ethical responsibility to follow through with it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because if you don't, then you're actually denying them something that could help them.
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SPEAKER_00: And that really convicted me.
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SPEAKER_00: It really challenged me.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's why I started the Daily Writer Club.
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SPEAKER_00: And I gotta tell you, it's been a blast seeing how this community has really helped people.
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SPEAKER_00: It's helped people to take action.
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SPEAKER_00: It's it's helped give them a place where they can feel included and where they where they feel like people get them and they understand what their goals are.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, somebody said recently in one of our, on one of our calls, they said, hey, these are these are my people.
5:37
SPEAKER_00: These are my people.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have to tell you, that was one of the most moving things that anybody's ever said to me because to know that um I just kind of stepped out on faith and created this community.
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SPEAKER_00: And and now a couple of years, almost a couple years into it, that somebody came to our group and they described it as these are my people, that just absolutely melted my heart because I thought, wow, um, you know, I kind of got this thing going and then it's kind of taken on a life of its own.
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SPEAKER_00: So I did not intend on on this episode being mostly a promo for the Daily Rider, but this is just really on my heart.
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SPEAKER_00: And I know a lot of people out there are trying to go solo in their writing and creative lives, and it just ain't working.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really, really not working for you if you're trying to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: So, all that said, uh, for this really overly long promo thing, I guess, for the club, um, is I want you to check it out.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can go to dailywriterlife.com slash club and find out some info there.
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SPEAKER_00: Or the simplest thing, I'm just gonna be honest with you, that's way easier, is just shoot me an email, Kent at dailywriterlife.com.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell me that you want to come, and I'll send you a link and you can just hop on a call with us and see what it's all about.
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SPEAKER_00: There's an application process and all that stuff, but I want you just to come and check it out to see how much fun we're having and meet some of the cool people that are gathering for these daily writer calls.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really, really a blast.
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SPEAKER_00: And this has become one of my very, very favorite things in my professional life to do, and it's one of the best things I've ever done, honestly.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel super privileged to to be able to serve the really good people in the Daily Writer Club.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got people there who are writing books.
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SPEAKER_00: They're writing books and launching books, they're doing podcasts, they're they're finding clients, they're doing all kinds of cool things.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just a really, really great group.
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SPEAKER_00: So I hope that you check it out, and I hope that you can hear the sincerity in my voice as I'm sharing with you what this group means to me.
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SPEAKER_00: And I I really want to serve you with this group as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So check it out dailywriterlife.comslash club.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you want to go the shortcut route, just shoot me an email, Kent at dailywriterlife.com, and I'll send you a link to our next meeting.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, I want you to come and check it out.
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SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next episode.