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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 let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,

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it's ero and this is vocal dfrag asking the questions

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and then questioning the answers. We do this on a

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transition walk. Plus I also defrag in a journal. Every

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single day. We all have questions, and you should discipline

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yourself to sit down and basically ask the questions instead

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of him and and Haine. Instead of worrying about stuff

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that you have no control over, get control of your

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personal life by defragging, understanding where you are and how

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you can grow from it. And if you can't, then

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maybe you should do a Swedish death cleaning. And that is,

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if you can't have any value in this, just get

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rid of it, Just get rid of it. This is

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vocal dfrag this time around, while we walk through this

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force in South Charlotte, North Carolina, a transition walk is

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going through exactly that you're going through a mental transition.

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And we walk through this beautiful forest. It's supposed to

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be like eighty sem Greece today. The hell, it's only

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sixty three right now the cloudy skies. So yeah, that

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kind of stuff plays hell on my heart. But I

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want to put focus on two words this time around,

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and those two words are frontline and catalog. Frontline and

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catalog for an author, a musician, even for an artist.

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We all have catalogs. You've heard about these musicians such

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as Bob Dylan and mcfleetwood, they've all sold their catalogs.

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It's material that hasn't been heard before or it has

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been heard. And so we sit there in our own

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personal lives and create enormous amounts of thought that we

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put in a catalog. We collect everything and hold on

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to it for way too long. So what is frontline, well,

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frontline versus a catalog is that if it's eighteen months

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old and newer, that's called the front line. That means

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the things that you've been dealing with this week at

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work or in your home, you're frontlining. That says that

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we can deal with this in the moment of now,

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and we can work on trying to preserve the good

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while learning from the bad. So being able to separate

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your own personal experiences, first of all, you got to

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understand that I think that everybody is an artist. Doesn't

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matter what job you do. I don't care if you're

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a librarian to a banker, to somebody at the stock market.

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We are all creative and we keep catalogs, mental catalogs

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of our ambitions are failed dreams, relationships that worked and

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didn't work, friendships you wish you had but it will

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never happen. And how about all those friends on social media?

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We catalog everything, but which ones are you going to

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deal with? Are you going to frontline or are you

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going to dig into the catalog? How I handle situations

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like that in the real world. When it comes to podcasting,

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I have twelve years of cataloged interviews you name it,

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thousands of them. But I also keep a frontline list.

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Those are the ones where I have the interviews eighteen

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months and newer. Keeping things in the can like that

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allows me to have enough air to breathe. When it

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comes to really putting a format to work, and I

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believe that our own personal lives should have a format.

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Ninety percent of the time I sit there and say, well,

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what is your daily discipline? It's the same thing. What

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is your format today? What are your intentions today? What

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have you got planned that's been on your frontline list

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for a couple of days to eighteen months. Being able

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to separate things in order like that helps you define

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where you are in your place of right now, because

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so many times I'll walk up to people, where are

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you at? I don't know? You have a goal? What

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are you working on something? Are you? Where are you

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at when it comes to getting stuff done? I don't know? Well,

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I'm that person that's going to go and do some research.

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I want to figure out what I don't know means

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and where is I don't know on a map. I

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used to laugh as a child when I would see

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a bus a greyhound up there in the front, it

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says what city they're headed to? You're like Seattle, Spokane, LA.

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I laughed at the ones that said Charter. I said,

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where the hell is Charter? Well? I was that guy

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that had to go research Charter and turn it into

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a story, turn it into Wow, what is it like

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to be at Charter USA? Can you be the mayor?

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Are you running the post office? Oh my god, you're

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that dude that's always at the railroad trag Charter? Well.

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I feel the same way about frontline and catalog where

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is this bus going? Your bus? You are a vehicle,

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you were just design before you became a human attraction.

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To be someone who is going to carry a lot

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of things forward. You inspire and let's be honest, we

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all have those moments where people don't want anything to

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do with this. We all go through it, but we're

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carrying it forward on your bus. What does the sign say,

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what's on your frontline list? What have you been cataloging?

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What should you do in the way of letting stuff

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go and doing the Swedish death cleaning? Mentally, that's a

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tough cookie because, just like the real thing Swedish death cleaning,

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you've got all these objects in front of you that

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have sentimental value and suddenly you're challenging yourself to get

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rid of it. Okay, now you face the picture. What's

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the new me going to look like? Oh more anxiety.

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People always try to revamp or reinvent their entire process

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of growing forward, when in fact we're not growing forward.

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What we're doing is we're spinning circles at it. Yesterday,

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tell me this amazing line. It was Bob Crawford from

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The Avid Brothers. He says history doesn't repeat itself. People

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just keep doing the same stuff over and over again.

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It was like, what what it is so true? History

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does not repeat itself. It's just that we keep doing

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the same stuff over and over again. We catalog it

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or we frontline it. Getting away from those habits is

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not going to be an easy thing. Living in a

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place of now, living in the present is a journey.

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It's not a one day thing. It's like becoming a

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black belt in martial arts. It took me years to

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get up to the first dawn, and then to get

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up to third don it even required more years with

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a heart attack somewhere in the middle. Cataloging where you

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presently stand, there's no such thing that's frontlining. Where you

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presently stand is on the frontline list. How you deal

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with everything. Eighteen months in age and newer is your

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frontline list. You're probably going to get things done there,

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or if you're going to be like most people, you're

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going to procrastinate. You're going to set it aside, and

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that's not a healthy place either. But then there are

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some scientists that say that that procrastination is the greatest

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thing because you're relieving your mind, body, and soul of

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the stresses of constantly multitasking. I wrote about that this

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morning in the way that why are so many people

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not focused? We're distracted and one of the major issues

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of trying to get back into a well focused life

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is multitasking. It says, stop doing it. The mind is sure.

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It's a beautiful thing. It'll hold on to a lot

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of information. You have the ability to work like a

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computer and have several folders open at the same time.

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But with everything else that's going on in the world,

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that open folder is creating a major distraction in your life.

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So now do you put it on your frontline list

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or is it going to become part of the catalog

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on eighteen months in one day. I'm a daily writer.

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We've talked about this a billion times on Vocal d

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freg Daily writing gives me the opportunity to find out

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where my head and heart are. First of all, I

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think everybody should go spend some time with a professional.

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Listen to the professional, exercise the mental ability that the

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professional is going to share with you, and then do

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it on your own. Don't become a codependent to somebody

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who you think has all the answers. People do that

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with religion. This is not a knock. This is not

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a knock. I went to God because my life was

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going to hell, so I gave everything to God. Well

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I did, I did. But the thing is, though, is

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that God looks at me and says, Okay, you're doing good, dude,

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but you don't need to be leading on me as

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much as you do. Come on, girl, pair. So that's

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what you have to do today, or maybe that's a

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lesson today. Figure out what's on your frontline list versus

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what you think you're cataloging. It's not a catalog if

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you can get it done now and it just happened

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a week ago. I'll say that a million times, but

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it's going to help you understand how you can move

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through any storm that you're facing. Sure, it's okay to

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create a list. I do it all the time with

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my podcasting. I have interviews that I did this past week. Okay,

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basically they're on that frontline list. But in order to

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gain control of your format of your bus, does it

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say charter, does it have a destination, And if it

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does have a destination, why aren't you working on it? Well,

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I'm front wining. I put it to the side. Right

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now because I don't have time. I hear them all,

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I deal with them all, and you know what, I

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have to face the image in the mirror as well,

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and I have to put up with his excuses and

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other people's excuses. And this is why this person couldn't

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come to work today because this was in the way.

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And you go, okay, what led to that moment on

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your frontline list? What led to your last decision? Now,

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let's dig in your catalog. What led to you having

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something on your frontline list that keeps repeating itself. Yeah,

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history doesn't repeat itself. We don't change. I'm Eryl and

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that's vocal, deep Rag