Speaker 1: Do you see yourself as being unplugged. Being unplugged means
you get to be yourself. You don't do anything but
speak your truth. You get to do things that others
may judge you for, but that's okay because you're just
being unplugged. I believe that being unplugged is your opportunity
to find your voice, to find your stance, and to
be strong with it. Unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity. Totally uncut, because you know what, We
all make mistakes, so turn it into a tool. This
is arrow unplugged stream thinking learning how to trust what's
in your presence. To get there requires a lot of practice.
One sheet of paper every day ten minutes write about
whatever is moving through your presence of right now without
any judgment. You see, stream thinking sharpens your skills as
a listener, a communicator, and an activator. It's learning how
to trust the right now. This is stream thinking today.
We're reading from February fourth, twenty twenty three. I asked
the question can you ghost yourself? Experts say, oh, yeah,
yes you can. It works the same way as ghosting
another person. We just stopped listening, stop responding, caring, and
finding something more interesting to work with. It's not finishing
a project. That's what ghosting yourself is. Writers don't support
their several drafts and end up setting it in a box.
That's ghosting. I'm very guilty of ghosting my days of
an artist on canvas. One very bad show in New
Orleans silenced me. I mean, this is ten years strong now.
I had to be talked into doing the show and
was extremely uncomfortable with the process. I had been there before.
This one show forced me to ghost that side of
my creative growth. Why paint? Where am I going to
store all the canvases? Thanks to digital technology, I'm slowly
unghosting the inner artist. Now I turn to you, what
are you ghosting? We're all very guilty of it. What
are you ghosting? What have you set aside and you
refuse to go back to? And yet you tell people
in your circle, your neighborhood, your family. You say, well,
I used to. What does that mean? I used to?
They always say once a marine, always a marine, same
as true as a black belt. I'm a third degree,
a third dawn. I'm always going to be a black belt.
So when people ask me, do you still study every day?
Every day you don't let go. I may not be
in a dojeng, but every day you practice and you
make things greater. So I turn to you again, what
are you ghosting? What have you done in your process
of personal growth that you set to the side because
the perfectionist got in the way. Or maybe you had
a bad day like I did in New Orleans and
the pain was so bad that you felt like there's no, no,
no way that I can ever do this again. Unghost.
Modern day technology gives you the strength to unghost what
it is that you're keeping yourself away from. Find that
inner you again, because there's so much love, peace and
forgiveness that you can just stand there, look at yourself
in the mirror and say, thank God, I got to
do it again. I'm Maril. And that's stream thinking.