Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. I'm blessed with the opportunity to
share conversations with some of the most creative people on
the planet, and it's amazing how people deal with personal
issues caused by creativity and how they're able to move
through storms. And sometimes those storms are so bad they've
got to walk a different direction. Unplugged because we will
always say yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all
make mistakes. So turn it into a tool. This is
arrow unplugged. Where are you at? How are you? And
in this place of at? Where are you? And while
you're in that moment of being at you're at, how
are you growing with it or against it? Pretty heavy thought?
Is that too much? Because we're always trying to figure
out where we are? Someone will say where are you at?
And you go, I'm in the car. Usually when someone
is saying where are you at, they want to know mentally,
they want to know where you are inside your personal thoughts,
your journey, that adventure that I don't know, maybe a
lull in your life, whatever season that you're in. Where
are you at? And are you asking questions to find
out how you can better define that word at. I'm
in a forest. Mentally, my mind is elsewhere. It's trying
to figure out a day that it wants to write.
But it's through meditation and prayer that I'm able to
pull myself back into this moment of now so that
I can put focus on what is more important where
I'm at with you, so that we can share some thoughts. Hey, Cheryl,
this is the choice. This is what I was writing
while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day,
and today's date happens to be March twenty third, twenty
twenty three. O three two three two three. Ooh oooooh
should we play those numbers on the lottery? Well, here
we go. No matter how heavy your heart and thoughts are,
it has to be one foot in front of the other,
and then do it again, and then do it again,
finding your balance while gaining access to somewhat of an
idea of how you're going to walk into the light
of a brand new day. It doesn't matter how many
times I look at my Google calendar. The challenges still
remain in what and how I think. I'm not alone
on this issue. That's why you're brought into this conversation.
Our unspoken thoughts are huge decision makers in the way
of how it moves through each and every one of us.
Every day, you're going to do it, almost there reaching out,
then boom, you stop, turn around because your thoughts got
in the way. Even while we sleep, the thinker is
a big stinker. The eyes open up about two thirty
two in the morning. To turn it off becomes what
keeps you awake. No matter how heavy your heart and
thoughts are, the calling is to find balance. It can
be through meditation, it can be through prayer or keeping
a written journal. But here's a thing. You know it
as much as I do. All three of them come
with their own level of anxiety. I've done it before.
Why is it taking so long? I must be really
bad at this meditation thing. It just doesn't work. Some
days feel empty, and no matter what you use as
tools to put yourself in a position of where you
are at, which is right here in your now, you've
got to tell yourself to keep practicing. Now we're going
to step into my world of a martial artist. I'm
a third degree black belt and one of the things
that my sob Aem and my Sinsey always shared with
me about that word practice. You come to class to study,
you go home to practice, and they would constantly tell
us when you are at home, you must be aware
of how you are practicing, because you can practice poorly
gaining access to new habits, and then when you step
out into the real world with what you have practiced
and you realize that it's wrong, now you've got a
new level of anxiety. So when you take your notes
and you pay close attention to the masters that are
leading you down a path, take good aim at understanding
why you're learning it. This way, when you go home
to practice your meditation or your prayer, or you go
home to practice your writing or practice whatever it is
that you're trying to design. I realize it always feels
better when you can fit it into your day. But
if you're not practicing right, then you've created a new
level of anxiety. Understanding the path is living the path.
I'm on a black belt path now. The average person
probably has no idea what I'm talking about, But to
a martial artist. I was with Scott Atkins yesterday, actor
Scott Atkins, we get it. And when we step into
that conversation, everybody else that's listening pretty much doesn't have
any idea the level of play that we're speaking at.
Practice to make perfect. I've never met anything that's perfect.
Practice what you are learning by taking better notes, paying
closer attention to the fine detail of why you're doing it.
Not because I, well I need to lose weight, well
I need to clear my mind. Practice, but do it right.
I'm Eryl, and that's what I was writing while the
sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.