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
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's inside your
present moment of right now now. To get there requires practice.
One sheet a day, ten minutes write about whatever is
moving through your presence of right now, no judgment. Stream
thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
June seventeenth, twenty twenty three. If we could collect our
thoughts like baseball cards and old concert tickets, would our
thoughts make it into a frame for public display? Personally,
I didn't instantly become a daily writer. I had to
force myself to the page for three years. It was
usually during those dark times, and I learned to trust
the writing to be my savior. I had somehow convinced
my heart that all things piece filled would leap from
the page. It was a personal challenge to write for
one thousand days in a row, starting in August of
nineteen ninety seven. It's turned into the way that I breathe.
Is it worth the weight to live forever in a frame?
Yet so much of it somehow makes it to a podcast.
Oh it's not just me. All of us say the
coolest things, but many of us elect not to share it.
Your deepest emotions without judgment, those avenues of thought that
seem a little crazy. But if you put a little
bit of love with that craziness, all of a sudden,
you've got something that people are talking about. One of
the things that we've got to do as a growing generation,
with so much content being shoved into our heart and soul,
is to take a real good look at everything around
us and say where do I fit in. I was
just with a gentleman who put a new front door
on my home. He said, you know what, when I
broke free of the contract business and I started finding
my niche in a place of just putting on front doors,
I became very happy. My neighbor Pam, she's starting a
brand new business where she's going to be the concierge
for those that are above senior level, because there aren't
too many people there that will travel from city to
city to go to weddings, to family reunions. It's usually
the older generation that's forced to stay home. The question
is where do you fit in? Do you know where?
That journey begins? Stream thinking allowing yourself to see for
yourself what is moving constantly around you, and all of
a sudden you've got an idea. And yes, you could
really feel like a in the moment, because nobody likes
to be judged. I have a new podcast called Forest Stories.
It sounds like a really stupid idea, and yet when
you listen to Forest Stories, it's documenting the behavior of
this force that has been a part of my life
for thirty two years. Once I'm gone, all that happened
inside this forest will leave with me. And yet every
book I've written, every podcast that I've posted, everything creative,
and all the love of this particular forest in South Charlotte,
North Carolina, has got a story that's got to be
preserved in a way so other people and other generations
can respect it. And that's how I feel about your
personal life. You have poured so much of yourself into
your moments of now, don't let it be forgotten. I
challenge you to share it. I'm Errow, and that's stream thinking.