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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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Part of our Swedish death cleaning plans means meeting the

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entire path. We're cleaning up more than just the closets

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and the garage, but it's the physical cleaning up of

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everything in this tiny forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina.

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I believe in nature and trust what nature does, but

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when nature gets out of control, it needs to be

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loved through changes and challenges caused by the effects of

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the climate. The limbs on many of these trees need pruning,

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and the forest floor has been met by huge fallen

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skyscrapers that once painted the sky with unforgettable leaves dancing

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with the breeze. The Swedish death cleaning it also means

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the cleansing of your mind. This has been an amazing

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journey through several decades of collecting to have to hold,

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to become part of. But there comes a time when

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it's time to let it go. In the beginning, I thought, ah,

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this is just going to be a couple of weeks, right,

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and then you realize we're talking about your entire life. Heyzero,

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this is the daily mess, a chronological walk through in

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everyday world. I am a daily writer, and documenting the

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Swedish death cleaning is not only a reminder, but it

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encourages you to continue looking deeper into what we are

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holding too tight to let it go. This is the

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daily mess, you know, between the two of us here,

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I don't remember my mother warning me about the speed

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of life. One minute it's nineteen ninety three, the next

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it's twenty twenty three. As a daily writer, I fall

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witness to the speed of life by the number of

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pages untouched inside this journal. Most of these books take

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me what maybe two months to fill two months that

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feel like two hours. Yet if reading these pages, all

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that's been lived presents itself as two months, it's physically there.

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But there's a twist in the understanding. To go from

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this particular date to a week later, it only takes

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a couple of minutes, basically meaning one nine hour workday

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can feel like a lifetime. But for some reason, seven

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hours of sleep is nothing more than a blink of

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an eye. It confuses our concept of time. We don't

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respect its presence in our life now, through meditation and

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a daily discipline of being present with mindfulness, time is

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put in its place. Here's the thing. It's always going

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to race, but being right here, right now, we are

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in control of it. Right here, right now now. I'm

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always asked, how is it that you're able to take

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time and stall it. I went through a period of

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my life where I thought, I'm going to find everything

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boring to do, because when you're bored, time slows down.

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The problem with that is is that time realized what

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I was doing, and suddenly all of those things that

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I was bored with they were moving just as fast

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as that blink of an eye. Getting control of your mindfulness,

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being present, being grateful, being right here right now requires

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a lot of work. It's an understanding with the inner

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core of who you are as a person. If what

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you're doing is running through life, racing to get someplace,

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I understand time is going to move very quickly. All

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of those things that we think we've got to have

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right now, it takes forever to get to. But once

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you get your hands on it, who into the closet,

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it goes and everything begins to stack up. I'm finding

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things in this Swedish death cleaning that I've not seen

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in over a decade. How sick is that? I don't

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want to be a hoarder, and I don't qualify as

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a hoarder. I'm just somebody who took time the time

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to collect it all, but it's taking a lot of

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time to get rid of it because in order to

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do a Swedish death cleaning properly, you go through a

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lot of mental states, because there's a big place in

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your heart that wants to hold onto the memories because

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time wasn't fair enough to give you more time to

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be with it, Eye Marril. And that's the daily mess