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,
hey Zaro, And this is vocal dfrag Dfragging is something
that came to me in November of twenty seventeen. That's
when I took my journal writing to a different level.
I went face to face with the one that was
in question, but I wasn't going to settle for the answers.
I was going to question the answers that the inner
core was going to put on paper. I've been a
daily writer since July of nineteen ninety four, and throughout
those years, I did ask myself questions, but I didn't
put a lot of focus in on it. It was
usually drawing the pretty pictures, you know, the ones where
you feel good. You want to document it, you want
to make it look like it's a mile marker. But
that's not the way we feel. That's not the way
that we journey through life. We all have those spots
in our life where it's darker. We feel guilt, we
feel shame, we feel doubt. We find a victory, but
then we start doubting again, because on the opposite side
of a victory is usually some downpours right, and then
we live more with them than we do those moments
where we felt pretty good. Vocal defragging is only half
of what I do when I say a dfrag. I
keep a written journal, which I started in November of
twenty seventeen, and I do the vocal defragging because I'm
blessed with the opportunity to talk with a lot of
creative people around the world, and when we talk about defragging,
they're going I had no clue that this even existed,
so it was like, how do I get the word
out about how people should learn how to defrag? I
can't send you my journals, so it was like, Okay,
you got to create a podcast then, dude, and you're
going to have to be just as open on the podcast.
And here's the thing about about vocal defragging versus handwritten defragging.
What I wrote about today before jumping inside the car
is not going to be what we're talking about today.
And the only reason why I'm in the car because
I should be out on that transition walk. We took
it all right, Oh, we took it. It was it
was fun. It was a beautiful day until the rains came.
But something happened on this transition walk today that really
opened up my eyes, and I thought, if you let
this go, you're gonna be missing out on a valuable message.
Do not let this dfrag moment go. And I realized
that on Saturday, I've got a movie premiere and I've
gone an essential job to go to. When am I
going to vocal dfrag? So I thought, I'm gonna do
it now. I've got to do it now, and it's
not gonna be out on the trail, but we've got
to vocal dfrag. The subject at hand on vocal d
frag is one man's trash is another man's treasure. Here's
the reason why it even came to me. I was
out in the forest with my dog, but I forgot
something at home. The poop bag. Oh yeah, the plastic
bag that picks up the poop. I didn't realize that
I forgot it until I saw a McDonald's bag on
the ground. I was mad. I was really mad at
somebody littering my neighborhood, my forest. Why would you drop
a bag from McDonald's on this path in the forest.
That's when I realized, hey, you forgot your plastic bag,
and right now your dog is taking a dump. Suddenly,
one man's trash became my treasure. I wasn't going to
leave the dog dumpings there. I had to pick it up,
because that's the kind of human I am. But all
of a sudden, my mind goes, wait, there's something here.
What are the things that other people are throwing away
that have become treasures in your life. We go to
these flea markets, we go to these junk stores, these
antique shops, and we buy other people's junk and we
try to add it to our lives. I think one
of the greatest pieces of treasure that I have in
my life is that I have a laptop writing desk
that came from the nineteen thirties. It was actually on
a US warship. A captain actually had that, and I've
got a letter from the captain that was left inside
the desk. It's a beautiful piece, but I'm so afraid
of touching it because it is so old. And as
a daily writer, somebody who's constantly putting that book and
pin up there you can rip that thing apart in
no time, and all of a sudden it's going to
become a part of history rather than a part of
the future. But one man's trash is another man's treasure.
What have you gone through in your life? What have
you thrown away that has helped somebody else? Let's turn
it around. What things have you dropped along the way
that has become someone's treasure? Are we supposed to know
something like that? Are we supposed to grow with such
an idea? So often we all want new and improved.
We don't want to deal with the old stuff. We
do that with computers, we do that with smartphones, refrigerators,
sofas in our house. We do it with a huge,
huge barbecuers. We want the best. We go through home depot,
we go through a mall, we go to Amazon. We
want the best. But when you throw it away, your trash,
whose treasure doesn't become Now I'm not a hoarder, but
I am learning though that through doing this Swedish death cleaning,
that I am keeping way too much. I sit there
and I try to determine I can't let this go
to the city dump. I need it to go to
somebody who needs what it is that we're sharing. For instance,
like we're replacing all of the ceiling fans in the
house with LED lighting to help conserve energy, because that's
the way life is. We're supposed to be helping to
save energy. But I didn't want to throw the fans
away because there's nothing wrong with them. So we set
them outside boom. Somebody instantly picked them up. Whether they're
going to sell them, it doesn't matter. We relinquished it.
So let me turn that into a question. If you
were to relinquish something in your house, in your heart,
relinquish meaning in other words, yes it once belonged to you,
but you relinquished it. That means you have no feelings
for it anymore. It's going to somebody brand new. What
you relinquish, what is it going to be in someone
else's life. That's where you ask the questions and you
begin questioning the answers. The words that you share. You're
letting those words out when you're having a bad day
at work. Ooh, that's trash man. We like to trash
talk the boss all the time. But is it someone
else's treasure? Yesterday at the essential job, the people in
my department were all bashing our managers, and when I
got there, I felt that energy immediately. It took me
about three and a half hours to level up, to
get to a place of thought where I wasn't thinking
about how evil these managers are because I was believing
everything that they were throwing out. I was taking their
trash and turning it into my treasure, which was not
a good place. So the words that you share, the
posts that you make on social media, the trash that
you have in your house, the trash that you have
in your car, is it somebody else's treasure? I'm eron
and that's vocal. D Frank