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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncomp because we all make mistakes,

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so turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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Oh those moments, We've all had them. It's not an

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aging issue. It's an everyday issue. Especially since we have

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so much content and expectation around us. We are becoming

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forgetful or is it forgetfulness? Is it just that we

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don't take it all in the way it's meant to be.

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We're choosing to run. We're choosing to get to as

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quickly as possible because everybody is on a time schedule

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right forgetting things that are sitting right there in front

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of us. And if you don't know me by now,

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I am a show prep whore. I am somebody who

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preps everything to make sure that I don't forget anything.

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And yet I had a situation. It happened. Did I

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freak out? Maybe just a little. Hey, Sarah, this is

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the choice. This is what I was writing while the

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sun was waking up on a brilliant new day. Today

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we're reading from June sixteenth, twenty twenty three. What was

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the story? Was it a moment of forgetfulness or just

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one of those days. I live a Google calendar lifestyle,

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which means I'm always on the run in all things

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that I do. Like I said, I prep, I'm very

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good at getting the required tools ready for the next event.

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Yesterday I left my recording equipment behind a black case

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on the floor near my wallet and keys. How did

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I not see the recording tools? My mother had dementia.

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I always felt my sister did as well. Of course,

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I had to do some research because that's what I do,

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and research shows there are many differentfferent types of dementia.

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It's not just one type. There's several different layers, which

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is why we should always go to get professional help.

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They know what's going on. We cannot sit here and

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google a self diagnosis. The early signs of dementia difficulty

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doing daily tasks, repetition, problems with communication, getting lost, personality changes, confusion,

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loss of interest, and forgetting old memories. Now I daily write,

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and I'm not going to lie to you. The reason

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why I daily write is because my mother, for the

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longest time, would always tell me I don't remember, Mom,

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how don't you remember? This is part of my journey

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moving forward. I need to grow from where I was

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in my years of one to maybe five, because I

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don't really remember those years. I don't remember. I don't remember,

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and that spired me to start putting things on a

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page twenty nine years ago, so that on those days

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when I tell people I don't remember, I'm actually going

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to say, hey, you know, my journals are in the

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other room. I give you full permission, love and support.

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Go in there, look up the day you're talking about,

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and see exactly where I was. Forgetting old memories just

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one of the signs. It says nothing about a black

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case in a dark side of the house, but it's

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nice to know that each day is always a new

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step toward brand new beginnings. We all fear forgetting things

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and hate the moment when we realize, oh my god,

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oh my god, oh oh my god, oh I forgot

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those tools that we need in our every day. Forgetting

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them in your past, which was maybe thirty five forty

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minutes ago or twenty three minsiles down the highway. Forgetfulness

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is what we do. It's who we are in this

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modern age. It doesn't mean we have to accept our forgetfulness,

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but what we've got to do is we've got to

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put our keys in the same place every day. And

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you know, it wasn't fair to my waking self that

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was going to a movie premiere so early in the morning,

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that my equipment is in a dark case in a

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dark side. I don't put light on that side of

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the house that early in the morning because I don't

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want my birds to wake up. It's not that I

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forgot it or that I didn't see it. I just

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didn't recognize the moment. I just didn't recognize the moment

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and the requirement to get into the transition of getting

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to where I needed to be. But I did feel

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like crap. I did hate myself in that moment. What

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was I going to do? I needed this because I

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had three incredible interviews, including a conversation with Jacqueleene Bessett

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to ful actress, What was I going to do? You

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have to punt, you have to rely on other tools.

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It teaches you that what you have in your comfort

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zone of tools, there's always something else just on the

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outside that we don't use. But we need these moments

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of forgetfulness or stumbles to be able to say, hey, look,

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it's not as bad as what you think. Because society

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and technology have provided other layers of outreach. So I

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want you to go into this day forgiving yourself for forgetting.

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We all do it. It's part of our DNA. But

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it doesn't mean that you're going into an element of

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aging just because you keep forgetting what else is going

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on in your life that is causing the confusion When

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you sit down and just ask yourself, what was what's

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going on before you open the door and left, What

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led you to that moment of forgetfulness? Dark case, dark

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side of the house, on the floor. My normal routine

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does not involve me looking down at a dark case

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on a dark floor forgive