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Right Here, Right Now · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey my friend, welcome to the Daily Writer, where we help writers become authors of their own lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm embarrassed to admit that over the last few years, I have said these words too many times.
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  SPEAKER_00: I should have been further along by now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, maybe you've said those kind of words to yourself as well, but what's actually behind that sentiment?
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe what's behind that sentiment is guilt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's guilt that you didn't start sooner.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's guilt that you didn't make more progress.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's guilt that you didn't do more and more and more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've ever felt that way about yourself, I have zero judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I only have empathy and understanding because I have felt that way too at times.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's be honest with ourselves here.
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  SPEAKER_00: That kind of sentiment, that feeling of guilt, doesn't do anybody any good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reality is that in the past, you and I did what we needed to do in the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that might have meant staying in a certain job too long, or maybe it meant putting off writing that book so you could raise your kids, or maybe it meant trying various side hustles because you were feeling desperate and maybe even none of those things succeeded.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you felt like you were way back at square one after all that time and effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fact of the matter is that you did the best you could under the circumstances, and you did not know then what you know now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we invest emotional energy into wishing the past was different, it's wasted effort because guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't change the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only thing that we have is right here, right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything in your life thus far has led you to this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everything that follows from this moment will flow out of where you are right here, right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the only question that matters is this Are you prepared to move forward with the knowledge and resources you have right now at this very moment?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, sure, your life could have taken a different path, but it didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: It led you to right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever person you aspire to be, whatever you aspire to achieve, will have to be born out of who you are and what you have right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's no use wishing things were different because that's only wasted energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, in the end, maybe the red hot chili peppers were onto something when they said, This life is more than just a read through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, right here and right now, is all that you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do with it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep writing, keep showing up, and I'll see you tomorrow.