Speaker 1: It was a life changing moment for me, identifying that
I was one hundred percent, without a doubt, addicted to creativity.
I was putting in anywhere between fourteen and seventeen hours
a day into my radio career. Why well, it wasn't
because I was trying to stay away from my home life. No,
I wanted to get back to my family. It's because
I needed to be creative and that was my outlet.
I am addicted to creativity, and I am not alone.
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. It's nothing new. I
like going to really weird places. I do. I just
love to do research and then share it. Maybe it's
the radio guy in me. Or how about that little
kid who sat in his bedroom in Billing's, Montana with
a mister microphone and said, I don't want to be
a normal radio disc jockey. I just want to be
a freak at this stuff. My latest research the classic
television show Bachelor Father that's on Antenna TV. They asked
the question, when did HI replace Hello? I sat up straight,
really honestly identa wan, whoa, whoa, whoa. I never thought
of that. When did saying hi replace hello? The change
came at the introduction of the telephone. In fact, Alexander
Graham urged everybody to not say hi on this new
communications device. He says, try saying hello. But let's go
deeper than this. Here in the South, there is the
occasional hello and yeah. Every now and then you'll hear hi.
But here in the South, it's the everyday thing to
hear hey, which was a culture shock thing for me
when I moved from Montana to North Carolina in nineteen
eighty five. I when someone said hey, that didn't mean high.
It was being called to the attention of There's no
pinpointed time as to when hey came from being high,
but experts say it became a national way to greet
others in the early nineteen ninetyes. So look at me
right there in the South in nineteen eighty five, we
were practicing hey way before the rest of the world
caught up. So do we really want to dive into this?
Do we want to say so? When did people start
saying yo or yup? Now? I think all we do
is we fist bump. And you know who gets the
credit for the fist bump, President Obama. He was the
one that did it. A national television did the fist bump,
and they said, whoop. The whole world changed. Do the research. Hey, Sarah,
this is the daily mess, the chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer. Stuff like this, Man,
I love it because I know it's a conversation starter
in your life. It's that one thing that you can
say I didn't know, or for a moment you might
just take your mind off from the crud that's going
on around us and you can go, you know, I
feel better for hearing that this is the daily mass.
We're going to hit a really super hardcore subject here today.
We go from saying hi and hey, end's up to
is getting burned out? Part of getting older. For decades,
you get into a mode of reaching out and into
things that's always connected to everybody else's expectations, and all
of a sudden, one day you go, I'm done. I'm
burned out. I love writing daily because truth on a
page is a physical act of releasing energy. Every single
one of us face burnout quicker today because opportunity is
constantly growing around each and every one of us. When
people tell me that they hate change, I love going
into their story to study how often they make decisions
to do something different, which leads to them admitting I
was just getting burned out. You know, I've got another question.
Were you getting burned out because you've shut down on
learning new things? It's the same grind day in and
day out, mainly because we feel secure by doing the
same thing. Then we get burned out. You know. Change
it invites uncertainty. When's the payoff going to happen? Will
there be a payoff? I don't want to be this
person anymore. And then here it comes, I'm burned out?
Oh what an ill? Feeling burned out is then connected
to Oh, I've got to go get another power drink.
I got to get some of that energy inside of me.
Gatorade with their new power drink with two hundred milligrams
of caffeine. That'll get you out of that burnout stage.
What's it going to do with that heart though? You
have to think about things like that, because I will
always say that my heart attack was connected to the
power drinks. I had a case underneath my control board
and man, I was downing those things left and right.
I was not playing a smart game at all. But
be careful when it comes to burnout. I do a
defrag journal. When I start feeling burned out, I do
I whip out that book and I start asking myself
some questions. What is it that you're truly feeling here?
Is it you're burned out? Or are you bored? Are
are you learning new tricks of the trade? Do you
want to learn? Why don't you want to learn? And
I think one of the main reasons why, when it
comes to being in the business world, a decision maker's
position doesn't give me inspiration because those above the decision
makers are really beating the hell out of them post
COVID nineteen. The way that they have to stay at
work when the people below them aren't showing up for work.
I mean, somebody's got to be there, right. You can't
just close down the shop. You got to put in
twelve to fourteen hours a day. And we've talked about this,
We've talked about how I really put myself into every
single job that I did and had nothing to really
show for it. What was the payoff? I wasn't getting
any sleep, family time? What was that my neighbors? Oh
my god, how did they get so old so quickly?
Because I was doing that. I was putting everything that
I had into that, and then I got burned out.
There's something that I want you to do a little
bit of research on. And I can't be the only
one who came up with this term, but I call
it career suicide. Career suicide is that when you get
so burned out, you start doing stupid stuff to get caught,
and then when you get caught, you expect them to
terminate you. Career suicide. Have you gone through that? What
was the repercussions of such a situation? Because burnout is
very real, especially today with so many choices and or
too many expectations, and you're going, I can't do it all.
And when they keep pounding you the way that they
do because you have to hit a certain number, man,
I will never forget because I just wanted to do
a real person's job. I've been in radio my entire life.
I've never had a real job. I just wanted to
do a real person's job, mainly because Micro does it.
Mike Row is a major inspiration in my life, so
I wanted to go to FedEx to get a job.
They wanted to hire me, and they go, well, you
have to be able to move one thousand or more
pieces of mail in an hour. Can you do that?
I don't know. I've never done it before, and I
wouldn't put myself in that situation. And the reason why
was because I didn't want to learn new tricks. I
didn't know how. So I've spent the past two and
a half years doing real people jobs and I'm learning that.
My God, there is a lot of sacrificing taking place,
and it's too easy to get burned out. D frage
a daily written journal, meditation, frequency music, you can do this.
It's easy to get into a burnout stage because it's
easy to convince yourself I ain't doing it. I just
ain't doing it. I'm burned out, I'm aerl And that's
the daily mess.