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
weird stuff. That's what I like about being a daily
writer is that you give yourself permission to be weird.
Some people may like your weirdness. Other people might think, Ooh,
I have no time to put up with weird. So
you still do it. And the reason why is because
when you put into your daily discipline the opportunity to write,
to share thought, try not doing it. Your body will
just explode because it needs that little bit of air
to be released from your soul. Stepping onto an empty
page with rarely, if ever anything to say, yet this
page will soon have its own voice. Developing the courage
to be a daily writer has an effect on my
speaking language. On a page, you can say anything, while
with others such a thought comes with a warning. Not
everybody's going to support the effort and or attempt. Speaker
of the House, Newt Gingrich told me last week, it's
not what I'm saying, it's what you are hearing. Two
people can hear the same exact story and have completely
different interpretations. What I put on a page may never
be spoken in public. It's here that having a release
is just enough. It protects the heart from saying too much. Seriously,
if this were social media, you would have already hung up.
Our time together isn't unlimited, Hey, Sarah, this is the
Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world. I
am a daily writer. I view life as an opportunity
to listen to life, to be present in a moment
of what is right now, Because in all things there's
a lesson to be learned. We're constantly asking ourselves, how
can I get through this? The answer was about three
or four days ago. It was handed to you, but
we instantly set it aside. This is the daily Mess. Man.
In a matter of days, I'm going to be celebrating
another number. In my years of travel, no moment passes
that I'm not grateful, even while at the essential job,
I find myself enjoying the atmosphere of multiple generations and nations.
You'd think, being a radio guy of forty four years,
that it's just an automatic man. He must be a
people person people as in one me or so, it
once was captivated and captured by business elements. I only
assumed that we had a community connection with our radio
listeners until I physically went out there in twenty twenty,
while the world was locking itself down, I was planting
myself in a position of human requirement. And the lessons
haven't stopped. Every emotion and lie has been laid out
in front of me by those around me. Some moments
are so shocking, while others are written off as didn't
need to see that. Move on, not worth the weight
or the words that's going to be flooding your heart
so much experience blessed by saying yes? How often do
you say yes? Are you overcrowded with no? No, no, no, no.
I'm not doing that. Why cause you're gonna get your
hands dirty. That's right, I don't get you see these hands,
they're not getting dirty. When I changed my attitude in
twenty twenty, where I did get crap underneath my fingernails,
and I did put myself in a position of oh
you mean I have to really work. I have to
use the muscles in my legs, my back, my, oh
my god. This is going to hurt like hell. If
you're going to share a conversation on a podcast, on
a radio show, in the community, at church. You got
to know who people are. And it's not what you
read in the newspaper or what you assume that you
saw on social media. It's physically getting your hands dirty
with those that you want to reach, being able to
understand what their ins, their outs, their struggles are. I
host a podcast that is based one hundred percent on
the experiences of what it's like to work at a
grocery store to go through those moments. Hey, I just
bought these apples about two hours ago. Look at them.
Look at these apples. You bought these apples two hours ago. Yeah,
look what they look like. Yeah, they're shriveled up and ugly. Man,
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you bought those apples.
And man, I don't know what happened in your car,
but we need to replace those apples. Man, I got
a stake the other day made me sick to my stomach.
I had to go to the doctor. I got the
doctor's bill right here. I'm so sorry, sir. What can
I do to help you save this moment? You see
what I mean? You put your in a position of
all people you don't judge people by the stories that
they're sharing. You go with what they're sharing and try
to figure out ways that lead you to a solution.
Too many times we think a solution is an instant fix,
when in fact, a solution is the first step of
a brand new beginning, becoming part of your community. There's
a gentleman. His name is Leroy. Leroy and I had
a moment together. That moment was is that Leroy came
up to me and says, look, I steal. I steal.
I'm so sorry. I'm gonna apologize right now. I steal.
And I go, LeRoi, talk to me about what's going on,
and he goes, I just I have to steal, but
I'm going to the doctor that she's helping me. And
so Leroy, he made that agreement with me that if
he gets that moment, he's going to come up to
me first and I'm going to find out what he's
going to steal, and I'm going to buy it. But
then I'm going to put it back on the shelf
and I'll say, if you truly really think you've got
to steal that, Leroy, then take the one from me
and not from the store. So just this past weekend,
Leroy and his girlfriend, girlfriend of many years. He's in
his middle aged years. He comes up to me and
he goes, do you know how much you changed me?
And I go, I don't want to think of it
that way. I want to think about it as being
you're my family, you're my community, Leroy, and you were
honest and brave enough to tell me that you steal,
and so it in my heart I heard reach out,
but more importantly reach in. That solution was ten to
eleven months in the making. To have that conversation I
just had this past weekend. See what I mean, it's
a baby step. What is your solution? I'm Errow and
that's the daily mess.