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One Year from Today · The Daily Writer

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: For some unexplained reason, the majority of cursewords language are four letters long.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: This is why we sometimes refer to them as four-letter words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, obviously, we're not going to repeat those here, but if we did, there's another four-letter word that can feel like a curse word, especially to writers.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: And that curse word is spelled Y E A R.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now that may not seem like a curse word, but it can feel like one when you look back at the past year and you haven't accomplished what you would have liked to accomplish.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine the book you could have written, the blog you could have started, the podcast you could have launched, or the income you could have made based on your writing.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: But year is not just a curse word, it's also a word filled with hope.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Just imagine what you could do in the next year.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Here's a fun little exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take out a piece of paper and write the date of one year from today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Close your eyes for a moment and imagine all the good that you could do with your words.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: You could write that book, you could start that blog or start that podcast, and you can make some extra income with your writing.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, a year is not such a long time.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's only 365 days, and those days go by really fast.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Each one of those days represents 24 hours that you can never ever get back.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: As the author Karen Lamb said, a year from now you may wish you had started today.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: And indeed she's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So get started today.
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  SPEAKER_00: This time next year, you'll be glad you did.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.