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Speaker 1: Do you see yourself as being unplugged. Being unplugged means

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you get to be yourself. You don't do anything but

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speak your truth. You get to do things that others

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may judge you for, but that's okay because you're just

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being unplugged. I believe that being unplugged is your opportunity

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to find your voice, to find your stance, and to

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be strong with it. Unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity. Totally uncut, because you know what, We

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all make mistakes, so turn it into a tool. This

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is arrow unplugged stream thinking learning how to trust what's

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in your presence. To get there requires a lot of practice.

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One sheet of paper every day ten minutes write about

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whatever is moving through your presence of right now without

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any judgment. You see, stream thinking sharpens your skills as

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a listener, a communicator, and an activator. It's learning how

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to trust the right now. This is stream thinking today.

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We're reading from February fourth, twenty twenty three. I asked

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the question can you ghost yourself? Experts say, oh, yeah,

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yes you can. It works the same way as ghosting

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another person. We just stopped listening, stop responding, caring, and

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finding something more interesting to work with. It's not finishing

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a project. That's what ghosting yourself is. Writers don't support

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their several drafts and end up setting it in a box.

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That's ghosting. I'm very guilty of ghosting my days of

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an artist on canvas. One very bad show in New

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Orleans silenced me. I mean, this is ten years strong now.

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I had to be talked into doing the show and

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was extremely uncomfortable with the process. I had been there before.

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This one show forced me to ghost that side of

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my creative growth. Why paint? Where am I going to

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store all the canvases? Thanks to digital technology, I'm slowly

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unghosting the inner artist. Now I turn to you, what

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are you ghosting? We're all very guilty of it. What

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are you ghosting? What have you set aside and you

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refuse to go back to? And yet you tell people

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in your circle, your neighborhood, your family. You say, well,

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I used to. What does that mean? I used to?

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They always say once a marine, always a marine, same

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as true as a black belt. I'm a third degree,

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a third dawn. I'm always going to be a black belt.

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So when people ask me, do you still study every day?

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Every day you don't let go. I may not be

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in a dojeng, but every day you practice and you

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make things greater. So I turn to you again, what

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are you ghosting? What have you done in your process

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of personal growth that you set to the side because

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the perfectionist got in the way. Or maybe you had

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a bad day like I did in New Orleans and

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the pain was so bad that you felt like there's no, no,

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no way that I can ever do this again. Unghost.

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Modern day technology gives you the strength to unghost what

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it is that you're keeping yourself away from. Find that

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inner you again, because there's so much love, peace and

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forgiveness that you can just stand there, look at yourself

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in the mirror and say, thank God, I got to

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do it again. I'm Maril. And that's stream thinking.