Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now. To get there requires
practice what I do every day one sheet of paper,
just ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your
presence of all things right now without any type of judgment.
Stream thinking will sharpen your skills as a listener, as
a communicator, and as an activator. Learning to trust everything
that's in your right now. This is stream thinking today.
We're reading from October twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. Somewhere
along the way, I heard that if you want to
look and feel young, surround yourself with those who are
My father's demeanor changed at the arrival of grandchildren. Suddenly
he was a playful kid, dressed up in an aging
man's suit. I have to remember, in my father's heyday,
there weren't any of these amazing self help and religious
study books, to which is where I find my truth
in youth. It's in the spirit of how we think
and react to all things around us. Being present in
your place of now keeps you from comparing yourself to
everything you once were. Feeling young is your winning choice.
It's a choice. I don't want to sound like one
of those radio disc jockeys who were always promoting some
sort of weight loss program. But when it comes to
feeling young, that told me one thing, get back to
where you once were while still living here in the present.
When I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in nineteen eighty five,
I weighed in at one hundred sixty seven, well through age.
And you've seen everybody around you, no judgment here, we
all gain weight. When I had my heart attack on
July twenty first, two thousand and nine, which today is
July twenty first, so happy anniversary, and thank you Lord
for giving me a chance. But here's the thing. I
was two hundred and forty two pounds. It became my
goal by the age of fifty that I wanted to
be fifty pounds lighter, and I achieved that goal. So
since that moment, I've been trying to do everything I
humanly possibly can to get back to where I was
in nineteen eighty five, not to relive my past, but
to be in the present, moment of now with a
body that I had before I became the truer, deeper adult.
And one of the things that I've had to do
is put a lot of attention on the daily writing
to understand who I am, why I am, what I am,
and where I am going or growing. And it involved
a lot of sweets, chips, food, bad, bad, bad things.
And the thing is is that when you start clearing
your mind, body, and soul of those little triggers, then
things began to happen, such as losing the weight. Today,
I weighed in at one seventy eight. I'm nine pounds
away from where I was in nineteen eighty five. I
was twenty three years old. I'm now sixty three years old,
so forty years later, I'm almost there. Looking and feeling
young means work. Do the work, write, listen to yourself,
get with people that will motivate you in the right way.
Don't live in your past, being your present, and things
will start to happen. By the way, I'm not taking
anything to lose the weight. I'm just doing it right.
I'm marrow and that's stream thinking.