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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. I'm blessed with the opportunity to

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share conversations with some of the most creative people on

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the planet, and it's amazing how people deal with personal

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issues caused by creativity and how they're able to move

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through storms. And sometimes those storms are so bad they've

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got to walk a different direction. Unplugged because we will

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always say yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all

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make mistakes. So turn it into a tool. This is

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arrow unplugged. Where are you at? How are you? And

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in this place of at? Where are you? And while

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you're in that moment of being at you're at, how

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are you growing with it or against it? Pretty heavy thought?

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Is that too much? Because we're always trying to figure

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out where we are? Someone will say where are you at?

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And you go, I'm in the car. Usually when someone

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is saying where are you at, they want to know mentally,

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they want to know where you are inside your personal thoughts,

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your journey, that adventure that I don't know, maybe a

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lull in your life, whatever season that you're in. Where

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are you at? And are you asking questions to find

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out how you can better define that word at. I'm

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in a forest. Mentally, my mind is elsewhere. It's trying

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to figure out a day that it wants to write.

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But it's through meditation and prayer that I'm able to

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pull myself back into this moment of now so that

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I can put focus on what is more important where

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I'm at with you, so that we can share some thoughts. Hey, Cheryl,

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this is the choice. This is what I was writing

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while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day,

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and today's date happens to be March twenty third, twenty

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twenty three. O three two three two three. Ooh oooooh

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should we play those numbers on the lottery? Well, here

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we go. No matter how heavy your heart and thoughts are,

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it has to be one foot in front of the other,

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and then do it again, and then do it again,

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finding your balance while gaining access to somewhat of an

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idea of how you're going to walk into the light

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of a brand new day. It doesn't matter how many

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times I look at my Google calendar. The challenges still

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remain in what and how I think. I'm not alone

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on this issue. That's why you're brought into this conversation.

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Our unspoken thoughts are huge decision makers in the way

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of how it moves through each and every one of us.

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Every day, you're going to do it, almost there reaching out,

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then boom, you stop, turn around because your thoughts got

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in the way. Even while we sleep, the thinker is

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a big stinker. The eyes open up about two thirty

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two in the morning. To turn it off becomes what

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keeps you awake. No matter how heavy your heart and

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thoughts are, the calling is to find balance. It can

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be through meditation, it can be through prayer or keeping

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a written journal. But here's a thing. You know it

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as much as I do. All three of them come

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with their own level of anxiety. I've done it before.

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Why is it taking so long? I must be really

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bad at this meditation thing. It just doesn't work. Some

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days feel empty, and no matter what you use as

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tools to put yourself in a position of where you

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are at, which is right here in your now, you've

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got to tell yourself to keep practicing. Now we're going

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to step into my world of a martial artist. I'm

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a third degree black belt and one of the things

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that my sob Aem and my Sinsey always shared with

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me about that word practice. You come to class to study,

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you go home to practice, and they would constantly tell

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us when you are at home, you must be aware

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of how you are practicing, because you can practice poorly

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gaining access to new habits, and then when you step

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out into the real world with what you have practiced

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and you realize that it's wrong, now you've got a

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new level of anxiety. So when you take your notes

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and you pay close attention to the masters that are

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leading you down a path, take good aim at understanding

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why you're learning it. This way, when you go home

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to practice your meditation or your prayer, or you go

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home to practice your writing or practice whatever it is

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that you're trying to design. I realize it always feels

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better when you can fit it into your day. But

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if you're not practicing right, then you've created a new

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level of anxiety. Understanding the path is living the path.

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I'm on a black belt path now. The average person

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probably has no idea what I'm talking about, But to

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a martial artist. I was with Scott Atkins yesterday, actor

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Scott Atkins, we get it. And when we step into

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that conversation, everybody else that's listening pretty much doesn't have

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any idea the level of play that we're speaking at.

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Practice to make perfect. I've never met anything that's perfect.

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Practice what you are learning by taking better notes, paying

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closer attention to the fine detail of why you're doing it.

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Not because I, well I need to lose weight, well

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I need to clear my mind. Practice, but do it right.

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I'm Eryl, and that's what I was writing while the

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sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.