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You Only Get One Life · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: The 1980s movie Groundhog Day is arguably Bill Murray's most popular movie.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: He plays a local TV weatherman who gets caught in an endless loop where he relives the same day over and over and over again.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: He gets killed in an endless number of ways.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: He has the same conversations over and over again, and he just can't seem to escape this crazy time loop.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's the movie version of the reset button on a video game.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you grew up in the 1980s or later, you know about the experience of trying to beat a game, getting frustrated, and hitting the reset button over and over again so you can get endless lives.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's too bad that real life doesn't work this way, isn't it?
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Wouldn't it be nice to have a reset button to go back and redo past mistakes?
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: How cool would it be to have endless opportunities to have new life experiences or to avoid those situations that have caused us so much pain?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, unfortunately, we only have one life.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: We each have a limited number of days.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's only so many books you can write.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's only so many people you can meet, and you can't do everything or avoid every mistake.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: James Baldwin said, Best advice I ever got from an old friend of mine who said, you have to go the way your blood beats.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life at all.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the truth is that you won't live forever.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: This day that you're living won't come around again.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's only going to happen one time ever.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: So what will you do with this day that you've been given, which is gonna slip through your hands really quick, and which you can never ever get back again?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: You have a choice to make, so choose wisely.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.