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Speaker 1: Hey, Taro, And this is vocal d fragging. Vocal defragging

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is taking the time to get to know you. You. Yeah,

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we spend so much time trying to get to know

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everybody else but ourselves. We just don't do it. And

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so you ask yourself the questions and then you question

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the answers. I call it vocal dfragging. I also do

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a d frag journal, which I've been doing since November

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of twenty seventeen. But it really does physically set up

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the moment for you to ask yourself simple questions, difficult questions,

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or just questions you don't want to answer, but there

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comes a time where you've got to take that step.

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This is vocal d frag. Something came to me while

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taking this walk through this beautiful forest in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina. The words were, I just want to pick

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up the map and I want to stretch it. I

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want to stretch it way out. The reason being is

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because that's going to give me more room to move,

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because this world feels like that, it's so tight that

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one step equals one hundred miles. In your own personal life,

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do you have the room? How are you making the room?

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Can you stretch things out in your life in the

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way of creating that open space to grow forward, not

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to be challenged by it, but to become stronger by it.

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There are so many different things that we move through

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on a daily basis that we totally ignore because we

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just don't want to deal with the situation. But the

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goal is to put yourself in a moment of truth,

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to be physically available to put yourself there. And what

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I mean by truth is is that we design our

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lives in a way of always trying to repaint a story,

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reconfigure a journey, to be better than what we were yesterday.

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But you don't want to do the work now. I'm

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not putting the pressure on you to do anything. I'm

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just asking you a simple question on how we can

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do things in this everyday world with so much content

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without having to stretch or dream about stretching the map.

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Because we both know it's physically impossible to do such

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a thing. So you have to be in this very

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tight situation. One step equals one hundred miles. But how

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do we free ourselves from that? You know a lot

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of people lately have been telling me that they stay

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away from listening to talk radio see it in fox.

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They they don't want to hear the news. They want

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to be able to read the news and to be

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able to digest the news in their own pitch, volume,

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and tone. So is that a way to help loosen

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up the edges of this very tight world? How do

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you do it? Where do you go to free yourself?

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Some people turn to religion, other people turn to yoga

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and or any other form of meditation. But in an

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everyday world of people not having the time to basically

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just run to the grocery store, you still have to

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put yourself in that situation of wanting to learn how

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to stop stretching out an invisible map. It doesn't exist.

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It doesn't exist. And so by asking the questions and

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questioning the answers, it helps you see a different side

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of your points of direction. So I ask, what is

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your point of direction? Where are you on the map?

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And really are you supposed to know where you are

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on the map? I wrote about that today because it

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seems like we have this reason for taking this journey,

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but we're not sacrificing the required time in order to

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make this a true traveling experience. We want to get

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there as quickly as possible. I'm very guilty of that

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because when I tell people I want to go camping,

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I don't want to go driving. I want to hit

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the nearest campground and get to camping. But that's the

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way that I run my map. Everybody else is running

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to the beach or going to the mountains, but me,

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I want to go camping, and there are ways that

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I need to kind of move through that barrier and

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allow myself permission to be able to get to that destination,

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to explore newer avenues of connection. So I ask you

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the question on your map, do you know where you are?

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And if you do know where you are, is that

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the destination? What steps will you grow with from this?

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Stay forward? It's called vocal defragging because it's having the

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courage to ask yourself the questions and then question the answers.

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Be present in your moment of now, and start looking

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at yourself in your place of now, because in reality,

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if this were a mall, this would be you right here,

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right now. I'm MARYL.