Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now. To get there is
going to require some practice. Here's what I do each day.
It's just one sheet of paper, just ten minutes of
your time. Write about whatever is moving through your presence
of right now. It can be about the dog, it
can be about your trip home from work. It can
be about anything. It can be up, it can be down,
it can be upside down. Just write about what is
moving through your presence of right now. It doesn't have
to be negative, it doesn't have to be positive. It
just has to be what is in your place of now,
without any type of judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your
skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
It's learning how to trust your right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from January fourth, twenty twenty four.
There's always something. I'm sure you've said it, your grandparents
probably said it, your neighbors have said it a billion times.
There's always some mom used to remind us all the
time that just when you thought you're catching up or
you're feeling better about life, there's always something. One study
suggests it's because life is blessed with a constant desire
for growth, the pursuit of meaning, the constant presence of challenge,
and the perception of our limitations. Why are we always
getting injured social comparisons pushing those limitations beyond our normal ability?
Managing You're always something requires gratitude, appreciation. Yeah, you've got
to appreciate those moments of now, be realistic with your goals,
and practice mindfulness. You are not the person you were
a year ago or even ten years ago. That's why
you've got to slow it down and be present and
be here in the now. There's always something. Can I
give you a good idea? So I get this big,
humongous lie between the city street and my house, that
means I'm now in charge of fixing that underground leak
losing lots and lots of water. Later on in that day,
after discovering that leak out there between the street and
my house, we discovered a huge leak in our twenty
eight foot RV and it has done tremendous damage to
the inside of this pristine RV that we have taken
care of since the day we got it in twenty eighteen.
Two leaks, two huge, very expensive problems. It's moments like this,
and I'm often reminded that although this was written on
January fourth, twenty twenty four, and it being twenty twenty five,
is this a note to that future self saying there's
always something? And what does it say to do? It
says that you've got to manage your always something with gratitude, appreciation,
and you've got to keep your mind on your goals
through mindfulness and through every angle of saying, hey, look,
even though there's always something, there's no reason to try
to speed life up. So let me give you the
follow up to these stories. For the water leak and
for it to be fully taken care of where it
stopped was nearly four weeks to get fixed. That's a
lot of city water that I lost. As for the RV,
six weeks to go through the insurance, to work with
everybody who's going to readjust everything on the inside and
redesign the living room as well as the kitchen and
the dining room area because it was destroyed, the floor,
the walls, everything. Six weeks. So do you see what
I mean? Slow it down, because there's always something. I'm
errol and that's stream thinking,