Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, 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.
It is my constant, and we all have a constant.
That one thing that just constantly happens every single day,
my constant. The feeling of running late. Time is a
limited resource. The most common reactions are dread and uneasiness
when you feel like you're always running late. Research calls
it time anxiety. One's emotions are affected by the feeling
of missing out or potential opportunities. Why is it a
fear of living a life without meaning? A need to
please others. Becoming aware of your triggers is essential, and
mindfulness is a brilliant decision. Being locked up in what
is right now, wishing for more time is an impossible endeavor.
You're not gonna get it. Learning to create with what
is right now allows the sensors to calm the hell down,
to be more forgiving of your presence. Because I do
live a Google calendar lifestyle, it is the main cause
of the idea that I'm constantly running late, and yet
I never am. But yet right here, right now I
know that my essential job, which is three hours away,
I'm gonna be late. I just feel it. The day
never stops until you find mindfulness. Then you're able to breathe,
to give yourself room enough to understand you're not going
to be late. Hey, Tarah, this is the daily mass,
chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a daily writer.
I write because I'm aware. When you are aware, you're
able to see things through clearer eyes rather than WHOA,
it's my world, I'm gonna do it my way, my way,
my way, my way, my way. Then you find out
it's not going your way, and then you become disgruntled.
You don't like where you are and heat majum. You
do things that you know other people go God, I
just don't like this person anymore. They're just so negative
all the time. Mindful of your moment of right now.
This is the daily mess. Who and we got another
day of cloudy skies and rain today? Aye yea yai.
We've talked about this so much. Cloudy skies and rain
through a creative mind. It's a dismal walk through unlit
desires and needs. We're supposed to be conserving energy, right,
not on a rainy day. This house right here where
I am, this studio. Oh yeah, the stars in the
galaxy can see me because everything is so lit up.
The reason why we have a problem with cloudy and
rainy days is because our serotonin is down. This is
why it happened. So what do we do. We consume
carbs because that's gonna get our serotonin on an up
level swing to get those numbers right back up there.
We always find ourselves in a place of constant reach.
The best ways to break free of this poison is
to light things up, baby, Just get it on. Turn
on your lights. Also, start moving. I do a transition walk.
I'm looking forward to my transition walk. Take mental breaks.
I do that with a defragged journal. Mental breaks don't
mean well, I'm gonna go be lazy over here, and
I'm gonna sit here with my smartphone and I'm gonna
consume every bit of the content that is there. No,
you're just poisoning your heart. You are You know that
there's clickbait on there? Do you believe this story? Oh
my god, what happened over here? Oh man? The world
is caving and what are we gonna do? A mental
break means don't do a damn thing. Another thing that
I do is I find myself in a place of gratitude.
Here's how I work that out. Outside my writing window
are two huge planting pots. Inside those planting pots are
elephant ears. Are you familiar with that plant? Big, gigantic leaves,
elephant ears. Without rain, my elephant ears are going to suffer.
We need the rain for them to be as beautiful
as they are. And that's how I convince my innercore,
who does not like a cloudy or rainy day, that
we need this rain so that my friends outside my
writing window can survive. Not sure, of course, if it
were a dry spell, I would be out there watering them.
I'm not insane, but I have to understand that nature's
touch is better than what's coming out of my faucet.
So I embrace the rain because everything around me, in
this home, in this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina,
it needs this rain, or outside my window, I will
have nothing my plants. I love my trees, the forest,
I love the creek, I love the lake. This landscape
is what brings me inner peace. And I ask you,
what are you doing with your cloudy days? Your rainy moments.
How do you let it affect you when you're driving
in the car and the windshield wipepers are going drives
me insane. I don't like the rhythm. I can't even
wrap to it, but it affects your heart, it affects
your mindset. Then when you walk into work, you're a frumpy,
dumpy person and people look at you going, yeah, hell,
whoa hey, I don't think so, not gonna do it.
Winning is a choice. So is a bad mood. You
have a choice to make. Will you or will you not?
Be in a bad mood? Fake it until you break it,
and you're not going to break the line until you've
made the choice that I really am happy about life.
I'm just sorry that mother nature doesn't agree with me
right now. Put yourself in a position of personal daily growth,
hourly growth, minute by minute. You will make it, but
you've got to make the right choice. Another cloudy day
rain to a creative mind, it's a dismal walk through
unlit desires and needs. Putting that junk on that page
convinced me that I was going to be in a
bad mood. But as we just talked about, you saw
how I was able to work that mood and become
positive in this moment of now with you. Hi'm Eryl.
And that's the daily mess.