Speaker 1: Look around you see if you can live without it.
Creativity it is an addiction, whether we're taking it from
other people or we're trying to steal it from ourselves.
Unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity. Totally
uncut because we all make mistakes, So turn it into
a tool. This is arrow unplugged stream thinking. It's learning
how to trust what's in your present the right now.
To get there requires a lot of practice. One sheet
of paper every day, Just give yourself ten minutes write
about whatever is moving through your moment of right now.
No judgment though, put that little monkey over there to
the side. Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener,
as a communicator, and as an activator. You've got to
learn how to trust what is right now. This is
stream thinking today. We're reading from February eighteenth, twenty twenty three.
When parts of your life our physical lessons to be
used later on in life. My wife's most recent hip
replacement became a moment of thought meeting thought. I share
a lot of conversations with those that are in their
senior years, you know, forty five to sixty. I ask
about the secret. The majority of them reply that life
doesn't prepare anyone to be really good at health providing,
which is why my eyes open this week. This is
one of those lessons, providing care in moments that I'd
rather be doing something else, setting aside my normal to
be present in someone else's life in that moment of
now she was in need, not always wanting, because those
receiving don't feel so comfortable when it comes to other
people stepping into their lives. But it's a lesson to
learn from, to pay attention to, to take note of
something positive is always swarming around those little moments of negative,
stepping onto the paths of somebody that you're going to
take care of for a moment or for the rest
of their life. My sister Sue and will always be
remembered as a great caretaker. She took care of my father,
my mother, and my brother Teddy, but I often wonder
who was there for her when she was in trouble.
My sister, as that caretaker, was extremely loving and giving,
but when she became ill, she wanted nobody around her.
She didn't want to be taken care of. It was
her life the way she wanted to live it. I
can't help but wonder what was she thinking? Was she
just ready to grow to be with mom, Dad and Teddy,
to be in a place where it's like I've given
enough and I don't want to burden somebody else. I've
talked to many caretakers, very close friends in radio. They
fought the fight. They proved to be strong in moments
where they assumed they were weak. They made their way
through that storm. And when the caretaking was over, their
heart's hurt. Where was that person that they became so
close to? Where was the daily ritual? They changed their
life to be a caretaker. Now they have to change
their life back. Most of them don't make it back
to where they once were. Their lives change, their careers
go a different direction. They start to look at life
in a different light. The physical lessons of life. What
are you learning? What are you being prepared for? A
simple hip replacement for my wife opened my eyes, creating
thought for other thoughts. To share a conversation with the seniors.
I asked them, what is the secret. There is no secret.
You just know when you're called to take care of
I'm marrow and that's stream thinking.