Speaker 1: We think we're in control of our creativity, when in reality,
it's controlling you. Everything about you is based on how
that creativity is controlling you. I would try to build
a friendship with it, to try to listen to it,
to work together, to collaborate. Unplugged because we will always
say yes to creativity. Totally uncapp because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
It's one of those dense fog days. I got my
little ding ding ding ding ding on my ACU weather app.
It says, warning, there's a dense fog today. Be aware
of it when you step out and you drive to
wherever you're going. Dense fog. Now, in this studio overlooking
this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, we are in
the opening days of spring, so everything is a beautiful green.
There's flowers all over the trees. I mean, it's an
amazing picture, especially when the hawk flies by and I
look down on the forest floor and I see the deer.
It's gorgeous. But in this dense fog that is outside
that they're warning us of, your mind is picking up
a different type of warning. Don't let the dense fog
affect your mindset. The sun is coming. You know that
in your heart that this is going to burn off
and the sun is coming. So when you put yourself
in that mindset where you are over your mood or mindset,
it gives you hope and trust that something better is
just on the other side. We've got to get through this,
and it's going to be through the breathing. It's going
to be through your awareness, your mindfulness. Be grateful of
the green that's inside your personal forest, and although there
might be a dense fog, you still feel the green.
I'm eryl this is the daily mess, a chronological walk
through in everyday world. I am a daily writer being
aware of all things, which is kind of weird. I
want to giggle a little bit about it because I
was with a famous photographer, Joel Sartre yesterday. He's done
so many books on preserving what all the animals and
insects on this planet look like. He's given it to
the future. But we talked about that about his awareness
level and that how does he move through his personal
life knowing that I better have my camera out right
now because I don't want to miss this opportunity that's
the way it can be, but he still has it
under control. This is the daily mess. A commercial on
TV this morning is trying to sell a new age sponge,
claiming it picks up everything and it's very easy to
clean off. Just rinse it and squeeze pet messes, mud
wine out of the carpet. You're actually going to be amazed.
They tell me, where's the sponge that picks up where
we would like to pick up? Let me ask that again,
where is the sponge that picks up where we would
like to pick up? I don't want to wash it away.
What I want to do want to take my dreams
and ambitions to a different day, you know, kind of
pick it up from where we are right here, and
then go ahead and squeeze that sponge and put it
into a different day so that we can have a
different ride. That would be the goal. That's the sponge
I want. We need this sponge so we can put
ourselves right back where we were. But the reality of
it all is is that everything will have changed. It's
not the same NBA that Michael Jordan wants. Shaped broadcasting
terrestrial radio with the digital platforms. It includes the digital
metaverse experience, even if this wonder sponge could pick everything
up and plant you in a different place, how would
everything around you change once you've fallen off a ladder?
How quickly are you to wishfully think that it didn't happen.
Sometimes it's best to wash out the sponge to rid
the system of the daily mess. Giving yourself permission to
grow forward. Yeah, this is going to be one of
those talks living in the past versus being in the present. Sure,
we had all of these things in this particular part
of our life, and we would love to have them
right now that sponge. Pick it up from the past,
put it right here in the present. But everything has changed.
It's not going to be the same experience. Why you
loved doing what you were doing one year ago to
ten years ago, why you were so into it back then,
may not be the reason why you want it here today.
It felt incredible back then, but here today it might
be in your way. That's why I say give yourself
permission to grow forward. You had some great times and
there were some challenges along the way, and you would
love to put them into play today. Grab that sponge,
pick it up, drop it here. Everything has changed. Talk
to a bowler, somebody who has been bowling for decades
them about the shape of the alleys these days, and
how much noise is now feeling what used to be
a place of concentration reaching for the pins. The headpin
got to get a strike two hundred average. It's all changed.
The way that they put the oil on the alleys,
the way the balls are designed, it's all changed. Dealing
with that change is doing exactly what we said. Rinse
out the sponge, rid the system of the mess, give
yourself permission to grow forward him Merril. And that's the
daily mess.