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Focus on This Instead · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: In your life as a writer, there are a lot of things that you get to choose.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: You get to choose how and when you write, what kind of material you create, the type of platform you want to build, and so much more.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: But there's one thing that none of us gets to decide, and that is the times in which we live.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right now we're going through a period of civil unrest, religious conflict, an uncertain economy, political leaders that people don't trust, and a pace of change that's far too fast than most of us are comfortable with.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the funny thing is that you could actually say the same for basically any period of history almost anywhere on earth.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: So here's my point.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't do a lot of good to spend your time and emotional energy worrying about the things that you can't change.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, focus on setting and achieving your goals, being productive, and adding value to the world through your writing.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: After all, your writing is the only thing that you really have control over.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you also have control over other areas of your life, but you only have control over those things.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, because this is a writing podcast, I want to emphasize that you only have control over your writing.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have control over stuff that happens in other areas of the world, or you don't have control over who becomes president, or so many other kinds of things that people get so stressed out over.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever seen the Lord of the Rings movies, you probably will remember these lines from the Fellowship of the Ring.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Frodo said to Gandalf, I wish the ring had never come to me.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I wish none of this had happened.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: And Gandalf says, So do all who live to see such times.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: But that is not for them to decide.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And wow.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: What a great reminder for all of us.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: We've got to make good use of the time that's given to us by focusing on what we can control.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: So here's today's challenge.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: How much time and energy do you spend on things you can control versus things that you can't?
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's a great question worth asking.
• 2:36
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• 2:40
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• 2:47
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• 2:54
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• 3:01
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• 3:04
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• 3:14
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• 3:25
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• 3:26
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• 3:30
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• 3:35
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• 3:46
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• 3:52
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• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, my friend, as always, thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.