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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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It is my constant, and we all have a constant.

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That one thing that just constantly happens every single day,

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my constant. The feeling of running late. Time is a

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limited resource. The most common reactions are dread and uneasiness

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when you feel like you're always running late. Research calls

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it time anxiety. One's emotions are affected by the feeling

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of missing out or potential opportunities. Why is it a

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fear of living a life without meaning? A need to

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please others. Becoming aware of your triggers is essential, and

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mindfulness is a brilliant decision. Being locked up in what

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is right now, wishing for more time is an impossible endeavor.

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You're not gonna get it. Learning to create with what

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is right now allows the sensors to calm the hell down,

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to be more forgiving of your presence. Because I do

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live a Google calendar lifestyle, it is the main cause

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of the idea that I'm constantly running late, and yet

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I never am. But yet right here, right now I

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know that my essential job, which is three hours away,

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I'm gonna be late. I just feel it. The day

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never stops until you find mindfulness. Then you're able to breathe,

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to give yourself room enough to understand you're not going

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to be late. Hey, Tarah, this is the daily mass,

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chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a daily writer.

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I write because I'm aware. When you are aware, you're

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able to see things through clearer eyes rather than WHOA,

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it's my world, I'm gonna do it my way, my way,

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my way, my way, my way. Then you find out

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it's not going your way, and then you become disgruntled.

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You don't like where you are and heat majum. You

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do things that you know other people go God, I

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just don't like this person anymore. They're just so negative

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all the time. Mindful of your moment of right now.

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This is the daily mess. Who and we got another

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day of cloudy skies and rain today? Aye yea yai.

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We've talked about this so much. Cloudy skies and rain

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through a creative mind. It's a dismal walk through unlit

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desires and needs. We're supposed to be conserving energy, right,

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not on a rainy day. This house right here where

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I am, this studio. Oh yeah, the stars in the

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galaxy can see me because everything is so lit up.

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The reason why we have a problem with cloudy and

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rainy days is because our serotonin is down. This is

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why it happened. So what do we do. We consume

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carbs because that's gonna get our serotonin on an up

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level swing to get those numbers right back up there.

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We always find ourselves in a place of constant reach.

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The best ways to break free of this poison is

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to light things up, baby, Just get it on. Turn

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on your lights. Also, start moving. I do a transition walk.

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I'm looking forward to my transition walk. Take mental breaks.

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I do that with a defragged journal. Mental breaks don't

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mean well, I'm gonna go be lazy over here, and

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I'm gonna sit here with my smartphone and I'm gonna

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consume every bit of the content that is there. No,

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you're just poisoning your heart. You are You know that

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there's clickbait on there? Do you believe this story? Oh

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my god, what happened over here? Oh man? The world

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is caving and what are we gonna do? A mental

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break means don't do a damn thing. Another thing that

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I do is I find myself in a place of gratitude.

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Here's how I work that out. Outside my writing window

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are two huge planting pots. Inside those planting pots are

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elephant ears. Are you familiar with that plant? Big, gigantic leaves,

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elephant ears. Without rain, my elephant ears are going to suffer.

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We need the rain for them to be as beautiful

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as they are. And that's how I convince my innercore,

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who does not like a cloudy or rainy day, that

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we need this rain so that my friends outside my

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writing window can survive. Not sure, of course, if it

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were a dry spell, I would be out there watering them.

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I'm not insane, but I have to understand that nature's

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touch is better than what's coming out of my faucet.

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So I embrace the rain because everything around me, in

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this home, in this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina,

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it needs this rain, or outside my window, I will

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have nothing my plants. I love my trees, the forest,

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I love the creek, I love the lake. This landscape

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is what brings me inner peace. And I ask you,

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what are you doing with your cloudy days? Your rainy moments.

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How do you let it affect you when you're driving

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in the car and the windshield wipepers are going drives

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me insane. I don't like the rhythm. I can't even

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wrap to it, but it affects your heart, it affects

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your mindset. Then when you walk into work, you're a frumpy,

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dumpy person and people look at you going, yeah, hell,

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whoa hey, I don't think so, not gonna do it.

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Winning is a choice. So is a bad mood. You

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have a choice to make. Will you or will you not?

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Be in a bad mood? Fake it until you break it,

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and you're not going to break the line until you've

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made the choice that I really am happy about life.

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I'm just sorry that mother nature doesn't agree with me

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right now. Put yourself in a position of personal daily growth,

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hourly growth, minute by minute. You will make it, but

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you've got to make the right choice. Another cloudy day

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rain to a creative mind, it's a dismal walk through

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unlit desires and needs. Putting that junk on that page

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convinced me that I was going to be in a

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bad mood. But as we just talked about, you saw

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how I was able to work that mood and become

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positive in this moment of now with you. Hi'm Eryl.

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And that's the daily mess.