Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Hey Saro, this is vocal d frag. Vocal d fragging
is giving yourself the opportunity to sit down, take a walk,
maybe be alone. Please be alone when you do things
like this, because you don't need the eyes of others
to bring judgment upon your path. But vocal d fragging
is asking the questions and question and the answers. I
don't just vocal d frag. I also keep a d
frag journal because you can put as many words as
you want to into a tablet or a journal, and
you know what, you're not going to pick up on
the inflection, the volume, the tone, the pitch in the
days ahead. It doesn't work that way. What you're going
to do in your written word is you're going to
have your own interpretation and come up with your own conclusion.
But when you vocal dfrag inside your smartphone or some
other digital device, you get to go back and listen
to where you were in that moment. And it's not
that I'm saying that go back and live in your past,
go back and see what was given to you in
your moment of now, and study the path of where
you're growing. It's what it's all about, growing forward. This
is vocal d frag interesting subject came to me while
doing my journal this morning. There was a lot of
concentration put on what makes a person unique all their
own and so the question that I was asking was
doesn't that sound conceded when somebody makes something their own
and they believe that they're the only one that can
do it the way that they do it. And I said, no,
that's not true at all. And this is what fell
from the writing instruments. You can't be me, I can't
be you, but somewhere in the middle we meet. You
can't be me, I can't be you, but somewhere in
the middle we'll meet. Being a broadcast instructors since nineteen
eighty eight, I remember those early days where all I
wanted to do was share my path, to show them
how I was up to replace Casey caseym on American
Top forty, to show them how to be number one
on a seven to midnight radio show. I was trying
to give them my path and then I realized who cares?
Really seriously, who cares? Why don't you just show them
how to use the tools and let them develop their
own journey. That was a wake up call for me
because everybody wants to share what might be their legacy,
but in reality, who's listening? Who really cares? Because if
you go into one of these lectures and you ask
them the question of why the hell are you here
and who are you? Why do you think you deserve
to be in a class to learn about these tools?
You can't be me, I can't be you, But somewhere
in the middle we're going to meet. My question for
you is what is it that you're trying to become
that makes you unique? Or have you settled in on
just being eh? I'm going to live life. You only
live once. I'm not trying to be anybody. I'm just
going to be me. Well, even if you're going to
be a bump on the log, is there going to
be another bump on the log that looks like you,
sounds like you, does things like you. I work with
hard working people, and I also work with some very
lazy people. I work with people that are so set
in their way that if you ask them to do something,
they'll look at you and say, yeah, I'll get around
to it. I don't want to be that person, but
I'd love to be that one person though that helps
inspire someone to say I can't do what he does,
but maybe I can be influenced to start picking up
on my own life. Sure, it hurts me when people
talk of these radio legends. Oh my god, this person
was one of the greatest of all time. And then
when you get up into the generation that you were
part of, it could be the same thing your business.
You could be a banker, you could be a manager
at a grocery store, you could be a school teacher.
And you're inspired by all of these people, but nobody
ever speaks about the hard work, dedication, and loyalty that
you put into your own path. You can't be me,
I can't be you. But somewhere in the middle we're
going to meet what is going on in your personal life?
Where do you want to be but you feel like
you can't be You stopped relying on your own personal
visions to accomplish what it is that you were called
to do. So many people always tell me, I don't
know what my calling is I don't know what my
purpose is. Well, you're probably doing it. You just don't
recognize it because nobody has sat down with you and said, hey,
this is the plan, this has been the process. If
you were to just accept your journey as it is,
then you can start growing. Because once you see the
full truth right there in front of you, what have
you got next? A step, a step backwards, a step
forward to the side. Wherever you're going to go, you're
always going to have a step. I didn't instantly become
a third degree black belt, nor did I ever think
that being a martial artist as such a stature would
affect me as an adult in the way of reaching
out and not letting little things get in my way.
But what happens when you do have those days when
the little things become big storms, giant cloud bursts in
your heart and your soul. You stop, You ask questions,
you question answers. You have to learn how to believe
in the self that you are and not the self
a barber down the street or Michael up the road. See,
everybody's always watching everybody else. We want to be just
like them. How many people want it to be just
like Michael Jordan. You can't be Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan
can't be the Michael Jordan that he used to be.
You can't be me. I can't be you. But in
the middle we're going to meet, sit down and ask
yourself the question where are you? I had that question
with my wife yesterday and she goes, where do you
think we are? Hold On, I didn't say where are we?
I said where are you? And in your moment of privacy,
that's where I want you to search your heart. That's
where I want you to say, this is where I am,
This is who I am, this is where I need
to grow. It can't come from the outside influences because
every one of us outside of your body. We're going
to give you an answer, and then your next decision
is what we determined. You need to find your own path,
have the confidence of the courage of being strong enough
to say, I am me. You can't be me, I
can't be you. But somewhere in the middle we're going
to meet. I'm Eryl vocal d freg