Speaker 1: Hey, Taro, And this is vocal d fragging. Vocal defragging
is taking the time to get to know you. You. Yeah,
we spend so much time trying to get to know
everybody else but ourselves. We just don't do it. And
so you ask yourself the questions and then you question
the answers. I call it vocal dfragging. I also do
a d frag journal, which I've been doing since November
of twenty seventeen. But it really does physically set up
the moment for you to ask yourself simple questions, difficult questions,
or just questions you don't want to answer, but there
comes a time where you've got to take that step.
This is vocal d frag. Something came to me while
taking this walk through this beautiful forest in South Charlotte,
North Carolina. The words were, I just want to pick
up the map and I want to stretch it. I
want to stretch it way out. The reason being is
because that's going to give me more room to move,
because this world feels like that, it's so tight that
one step equals one hundred miles. In your own personal life,
do you have the room? How are you making the room?
Can you stretch things out in your life in the
way of creating that open space to grow forward, not
to be challenged by it, but to become stronger by it.
There are so many different things that we move through
on a daily basis that we totally ignore because we
just don't want to deal with the situation. But the
goal is to put yourself in a moment of truth,
to be physically available to put yourself there. And what
I mean by truth is is that we design our
lives in a way of always trying to repaint a story,
reconfigure a journey, to be better than what we were yesterday.
But you don't want to do the work now. I'm
not putting the pressure on you to do anything. I'm
just asking you a simple question on how we can
do things in this everyday world with so much content
without having to stretch or dream about stretching the map.
Because we both know it's physically impossible to do such
a thing. So you have to be in this very
tight situation. One step equals one hundred miles. But how
do we free ourselves from that? You know a lot
of people lately have been telling me that they stay
away from listening to talk radio see it in fox.
They they don't want to hear the news. They want
to be able to read the news and to be
able to digest the news in their own pitch, volume,
and tone. So is that a way to help loosen
up the edges of this very tight world? How do
you do it? Where do you go to free yourself?
Some people turn to religion, other people turn to yoga
and or any other form of meditation. But in an
everyday world of people not having the time to basically
just run to the grocery store, you still have to
put yourself in that situation of wanting to learn how
to stop stretching out an invisible map. It doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist. And so by asking the questions and
questioning the answers, it helps you see a different side
of your points of direction. So I ask, what is
your point of direction? Where are you on the map?
And really are you supposed to know where you are
on the map? I wrote about that today because it
seems like we have this reason for taking this journey,
but we're not sacrificing the required time in order to
make this a true traveling experience. We want to get
there as quickly as possible. I'm very guilty of that
because when I tell people I want to go camping,
I don't want to go driving. I want to hit
the nearest campground and get to camping. But that's the
way that I run my map. Everybody else is running
to the beach or going to the mountains, but me,
I want to go camping, and there are ways that
I need to kind of move through that barrier and
allow myself permission to be able to get to that destination,
to explore newer avenues of connection. So I ask you
the question on your map, do you know where you are?
And if you do know where you are, is that
the destination? What steps will you grow with from this?
Stay forward? It's called vocal defragging because it's having the
courage to ask yourself the questions and then question the answers.
Be present in your moment of now, and start looking
at yourself in your place of now, because in reality,
if this were a mall, this would be you right here,
right now. I'm MARYL.