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,
it's ero and this is vocal dfrag asking the questions
and then questioning the answers. We do this on a
transition walk. Plus I also defrag in a journal. Every
single day. We all have questions, and you should discipline
yourself to sit down and basically ask the questions instead
of him and and Haine. Instead of worrying about stuff
that you have no control over, get control of your
personal life by defragging, understanding where you are and how
you can grow from it. And if you can't, then
maybe you should do a Swedish death cleaning. And that is,
if you can't have any value in this, just get
rid of it, Just get rid of it. This is
vocal dfrag this time around, while we walk through this
force in South Charlotte, North Carolina, a transition walk is
going through exactly that you're going through a mental transition.
And we walk through this beautiful forest. It's supposed to
be like eighty sem Greece today. The hell, it's only
sixty three right now the cloudy skies. So yeah, that
kind of stuff plays hell on my heart. But I
want to put focus on two words this time around,
and those two words are frontline and catalog. Frontline and
catalog for an author, a musician, even for an artist.
We all have catalogs. You've heard about these musicians such
as Bob Dylan and mcfleetwood, they've all sold their catalogs.
It's material that hasn't been heard before or it has
been heard. And so we sit there in our own
personal lives and create enormous amounts of thought that we
put in a catalog. We collect everything and hold on
to it for way too long. So what is frontline, well,
frontline versus a catalog is that if it's eighteen months
old and newer, that's called the front line. That means
the things that you've been dealing with this week at
work or in your home, you're frontlining. That says that
we can deal with this in the moment of now,
and we can work on trying to preserve the good
while learning from the bad. So being able to separate
your own personal experiences, first of all, you got to
understand that I think that everybody is an artist. Doesn't
matter what job you do. I don't care if you're
a librarian to a banker, to somebody at the stock market.
We are all creative and we keep catalogs, mental catalogs
of our ambitions are failed dreams, relationships that worked and
didn't work, friendships you wish you had but it will
never happen. And how about all those friends on social media?
We catalog everything, but which ones are you going to
deal with? Are you going to frontline or are you
going to dig into the catalog? How I handle situations
like that in the real world. When it comes to podcasting,
I have twelve years of cataloged interviews you name it,
thousands of them. But I also keep a frontline list.
Those are the ones where I have the interviews eighteen
months and newer. Keeping things in the can like that
allows me to have enough air to breathe. When it
comes to really putting a format to work, and I
believe that our own personal lives should have a format.
Ninety percent of the time I sit there and say, well,
what is your daily discipline? It's the same thing. What
is your format today? What are your intentions today? What
have you got planned that's been on your frontline list
for a couple of days to eighteen months. Being able
to separate things in order like that helps you define
where you are in your place of right now, because
so many times I'll walk up to people, where are
you at? I don't know? You have a goal? What
are you working on something? Are you? Where are you
at when it comes to getting stuff done? I don't know? Well,
I'm that person that's going to go and do some research.
I want to figure out what I don't know means
and where is I don't know on a map. I
used to laugh as a child when I would see
a bus a greyhound up there in the front, it
says what city they're headed to? You're like Seattle, Spokane, LA.
I laughed at the ones that said Charter. I said,
where the hell is Charter? Well? I was that guy
that had to go research Charter and turn it into
a story, turn it into Wow, what is it like
to be at Charter USA? Can you be the mayor?
Are you running the post office? Oh my god, you're
that dude that's always at the railroad trag Charter? Well.
I feel the same way about frontline and catalog where
is this bus going? Your bus? You are a vehicle,
you were just design before you became a human attraction.
To be someone who is going to carry a lot
of things forward. You inspire and let's be honest, we
all have those moments where people don't want anything to
do with this. We all go through it, but we're
carrying it forward on your bus. What does the sign say,
what's on your frontline list? What have you been cataloging?
What should you do in the way of letting stuff
go and doing the Swedish death cleaning? Mentally, that's a
tough cookie because, just like the real thing Swedish death cleaning,
you've got all these objects in front of you that
have sentimental value and suddenly you're challenging yourself to get
rid of it. Okay, now you face the picture. What's
the new me going to look like? Oh more anxiety.
People always try to revamp or reinvent their entire process
of growing forward, when in fact we're not growing forward.
What we're doing is we're spinning circles at it. Yesterday,
tell me this amazing line. It was Bob Crawford from
The Avid Brothers. He says history doesn't repeat itself. People
just keep doing the same stuff over and over again.
It was like, what what it is so true? History
does not repeat itself. It's just that we keep doing
the same stuff over and over again. We catalog it
or we frontline it. Getting away from those habits is
not going to be an easy thing. Living in a
place of now, living in the present is a journey.
It's not a one day thing. It's like becoming a
black belt in martial arts. It took me years to
get up to the first dawn, and then to get
up to third don it even required more years with
a heart attack somewhere in the middle. Cataloging where you
presently stand, there's no such thing that's frontlining. Where you
presently stand is on the frontline list. How you deal
with everything. Eighteen months in age and newer is your
frontline list. You're probably going to get things done there,
or if you're going to be like most people, you're
going to procrastinate. You're going to set it aside, and
that's not a healthy place either. But then there are
some scientists that say that that procrastination is the greatest
thing because you're relieving your mind, body, and soul of
the stresses of constantly multitasking. I wrote about that this
morning in the way that why are so many people
not focused? We're distracted and one of the major issues
of trying to get back into a well focused life
is multitasking. It says, stop doing it. The mind is sure.
It's a beautiful thing. It'll hold on to a lot
of information. You have the ability to work like a
computer and have several folders open at the same time.
But with everything else that's going on in the world,
that open folder is creating a major distraction in your life.
So now do you put it on your frontline list
or is it going to become part of the catalog
on eighteen months in one day. I'm a daily writer.
We've talked about this a billion times on Vocal d
freg Daily writing gives me the opportunity to find out
where my head and heart are. First of all, I
think everybody should go spend some time with a professional.
Listen to the professional, exercise the mental ability that the
professional is going to share with you, and then do
it on your own. Don't become a codependent to somebody
who you think has all the answers. People do that
with religion. This is not a knock. This is not
a knock. I went to God because my life was
going to hell, so I gave everything to God. Well
I did, I did. But the thing is, though, is
that God looks at me and says, Okay, you're doing good, dude,
but you don't need to be leading on me as
much as you do. Come on, girl, pair. So that's
what you have to do today, or maybe that's a
lesson today. Figure out what's on your frontline list versus
what you think you're cataloging. It's not a catalog if
you can get it done now and it just happened
a week ago. I'll say that a million times, but
it's going to help you understand how you can move
through any storm that you're facing. Sure, it's okay to
create a list. I do it all the time with
my podcasting. I have interviews that I did this past week. Okay,
basically they're on that frontline list. But in order to
gain control of your format of your bus, does it
say charter, does it have a destination, And if it
does have a destination, why aren't you working on it? Well,
I'm front wining. I put it to the side. Right
now because I don't have time. I hear them all,
I deal with them all, and you know what, I
have to face the image in the mirror as well,
and I have to put up with his excuses and
other people's excuses. And this is why this person couldn't
come to work today because this was in the way.
And you go, okay, what led to that moment on
your frontline list? What led to your last decision? Now,
let's dig in your catalog. What led to you having
something on your frontline list that keeps repeating itself. Yeah,
history doesn't repeat itself. We don't change. I'm Eryl and
that's vocal, deep Rag