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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged

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weird stuff. That's what I like about being a daily

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writer is that you give yourself permission to be weird.

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Some people may like your weirdness. Other people might think, Ooh,

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I have no time to put up with weird. So

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you still do it. And the reason why is because

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when you put into your daily discipline the opportunity to write,

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to share thought, try not doing it. Your body will

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just explode because it needs that little bit of air

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to be released from your soul. Stepping onto an empty

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page with rarely, if ever anything to say, yet this

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page will soon have its own voice. Developing the courage

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to be a daily writer has an effect on my

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speaking language. On a page, you can say anything, while

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with others such a thought comes with a warning. Not

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everybody's going to support the effort and or attempt. Speaker

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of the House, Newt Gingrich told me last week, it's

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not what I'm saying, it's what you are hearing. Two

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people can hear the same exact story and have completely

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different interpretations. What I put on a page may never

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be spoken in public. It's here that having a release

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is just enough. It protects the heart from saying too much. Seriously,

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if this were social media, you would have already hung up.

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Our time together isn't unlimited, Hey, Sarah, this is the

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Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world. I

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am a daily writer. I view life as an opportunity

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to listen to life, to be present in a moment

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of what is right now, Because in all things there's

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a lesson to be learned. We're constantly asking ourselves, how

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can I get through this? The answer was about three

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or four days ago. It was handed to you, but

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we instantly set it aside. This is the daily Mess. Man.

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In a matter of days, I'm going to be celebrating

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another number. In my years of travel, no moment passes

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that I'm not grateful, even while at the essential job,

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I find myself enjoying the atmosphere of multiple generations and nations.

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You'd think, being a radio guy of forty four years,

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that it's just an automatic man. He must be a

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people person people as in one me or so, it

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once was captivated and captured by business elements. I only

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assumed that we had a community connection with our radio

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listeners until I physically went out there in twenty twenty,

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while the world was locking itself down, I was planting

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myself in a position of human requirement. And the lessons

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haven't stopped. Every emotion and lie has been laid out

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in front of me by those around me. Some moments

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are so shocking, while others are written off as didn't

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need to see that. Move on, not worth the weight

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or the words that's going to be flooding your heart

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so much experience blessed by saying yes? How often do

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you say yes? Are you overcrowded with no? No, no, no, no.

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I'm not doing that. Why cause you're gonna get your

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hands dirty. That's right, I don't get you see these hands,

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they're not getting dirty. When I changed my attitude in

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twenty twenty, where I did get crap underneath my fingernails,

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and I did put myself in a position of oh

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you mean I have to really work. I have to

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use the muscles in my legs, my back, my, oh

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my god. This is going to hurt like hell. If

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you're going to share a conversation on a podcast, on

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a radio show, in the community, at church. You got

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to know who people are. And it's not what you

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read in the newspaper or what you assume that you

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saw on social media. It's physically getting your hands dirty

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with those that you want to reach, being able to

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understand what their ins, their outs, their struggles are. I

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host a podcast that is based one hundred percent on

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the experiences of what it's like to work at a

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grocery store to go through those moments. Hey, I just

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bought these apples about two hours ago. Look at them.

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Look at these apples. You bought these apples two hours ago. Yeah,

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look what they look like. Yeah, they're shriveled up and ugly. Man,

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I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you bought those apples.

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And man, I don't know what happened in your car,

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but we need to replace those apples. Man, I got

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a stake the other day made me sick to my stomach.

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I had to go to the doctor. I got the

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doctor's bill right here. I'm so sorry, sir. What can

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I do to help you save this moment? You see

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what I mean? You put your in a position of

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all people you don't judge people by the stories that

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they're sharing. You go with what they're sharing and try

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to figure out ways that lead you to a solution.

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Too many times we think a solution is an instant fix,

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when in fact, a solution is the first step of

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a brand new beginning, becoming part of your community. There's

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a gentleman. His name is Leroy. Leroy and I had

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a moment together. That moment was is that Leroy came

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up to me and says, look, I steal. I steal.

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I'm so sorry. I'm gonna apologize right now. I steal.

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And I go, LeRoi, talk to me about what's going on,

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and he goes, I just I have to steal, but

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I'm going to the doctor that she's helping me. And

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so Leroy, he made that agreement with me that if

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he gets that moment, he's going to come up to

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me first and I'm going to find out what he's

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going to steal, and I'm going to buy it. But

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then I'm going to put it back on the shelf

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and I'll say, if you truly really think you've got

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to steal that, Leroy, then take the one from me

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and not from the store. So just this past weekend,

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Leroy and his girlfriend, girlfriend of many years. He's in

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his middle aged years. He comes up to me and

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he goes, do you know how much you changed me?

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And I go, I don't want to think of it

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that way. I want to think about it as being

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you're my family, you're my community, Leroy, and you were

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honest and brave enough to tell me that you steal,

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and so it in my heart I heard reach out,

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but more importantly reach in. That solution was ten to

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eleven months in the making. To have that conversation I

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just had this past weekend. See what I mean, it's

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a baby step. What is your solution? I'm Errow and

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that's the daily mess.