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Speaker 1: Okay, So for all these years have said, hey, if

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you're looking for a great podcast, just google me Arrowcollins,

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and then all of a sudden you find yourself on

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a streaming platform and can't figure out where anything is.

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He said he was talking to this person. But okay,

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so what I've done is I've centralized it. Now Erro

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dot net, Arie dot net, all seventeen of my podcasts

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are up there for you to enjoy. Stream thinking it's

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learning how to trust what is in your present place

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of all things right now. To get there is going

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to require some practice. This is what I do every

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single day, one sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write

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about whatever is moving through your presence of all things

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right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking it sharpens

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your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as

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an activator. It's learning how to trust everything that is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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February first, twenty twenty five. I'm not the only one

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that sees their Google calendar and can't figure out how

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the hell am I going to catch up here. My neighbor, Sergio,

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recently retired from his job of multiple years. He said

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his honeydew list just got too large, and he's got

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to put his energy into shaping the next level of

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his life. But is that really the answer. I mean,

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I'm a people person. I find amazing warmth in my

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soul getting to know each and every guest who stops

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inside our grocery store. Yeah, it's a job I picked

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up because during the COVID lockdown, it gave me serious

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cabin fever. So I challenged myself to be one with

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the community. But like Sergio, my honeydew list is off

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the charts. I really have too much on my plate.

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But what am I willing to sacrifice in order to

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physically and mentally stop? And what I mean by stop

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is to walk away from the corporate world of business

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to put me ahead of their decisions. It's a tough choice.

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And you know what. You can go on to chat, GPT,

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you can Google, you can go anywhere and search up

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these questions. And the thing is it's all based on

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personal experiences and what you can handle and what you

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can handle. And I think on a personal level, the

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one thing that I don't think I could handle is

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the lack of people in my lives. And here's The

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reason why this is just me being transparent with you

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as you yourself grow forward. Because retirement is happening at

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forty and even fifty years old. You're not going to

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get the full benefits, but you can still retire at

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those ages and you can find a lot of love

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in life. But my challenge has been is that I

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spent thirty six years of radio. This is before podcasting,

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doing terrestrial radio. Sure I had my personal appearances, Sure

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I went out with clients, I did all these different things,

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but that was for the business. What was I doing

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for myself as a people person or a self declared

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people person. I was sitting inside a radio station control

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room in visioning people. I was relying on their research

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of who the listener is and picturing in my mind

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who she or he was, and then talking with them

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without having a physical conversation. And then in twenty twenty

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September of that year, for some stink and reason, I

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felt a need a calling to be in front of real,

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authentic people. And my wife jokingly said, go get a

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job at a grocery store, or go get something at

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Low's or home depot, and I chose as a radio stunt.

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As a podcast stunt to go see if I could

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land a job at a grocery store. The first one

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turned me down because I didn't agree with the hours

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that they wanted to give me. So I thought was,

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She's I don't want to be defeated in this. I

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like to win as what I like to do. What

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is it going to take for me a broadcaster of

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all of these years, with these experiences that I've held

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inside my hands, not only talking to people of fame,

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but working working inside a glorious radio station where it

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is supposed to be all about the community. And there

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I was, and I took the job, but I wasn't

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happy about it. When I got the job, I was

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very angry with myself because now that radio joke or

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that prank for a podcast was my reality. And I

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had a shirt to prove it. And that shirt had

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nothing to do with rock stars or movies. It was

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their shirt and I had to wear it. You know.

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The funniest thing about that was that it was too small.

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It really was too small, and it was like, Okay,

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if I don't exchange it, I don't have to come

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work there, right You see how we think that's the

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way we are. And so when I talked to my

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department head and I said, well, the shirt's too small.

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I really I'm not really fit to be working with

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you guys. Get it fit. It was too small. That

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wasn't a good answer to give to the department head

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because she says, well, that's okay, we'll just give you

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a larger shirt. Oh God, but we are in that

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age where those that are fitting inside the elder generation.

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And I don't like using that word, but you might

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as well accept it because we are all growing in

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that direction. And it's like, when do you stop? When

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do you hang up this desire to consistently be because

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one of the things that being of an older generation,

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it is completely one hundred percent natural to become more

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of an introvert, to become more of somebody who doesn't

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need the corporate acceptance that pat on the back at

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a boy, Oh you want to be employee the year. Oh,

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let's see what you've done for the year. Don't need that.

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We don't need that kind of thing anymore, nor do

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we need to grow within the ranks of a company

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unless your ego has got to be fed that situation.

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But Sergio felt it in his heart that it was

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time to move on, to break free of his businesses

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that he was so in involved in, whereas I'm currently

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in a position where it's like, well, I'm going to

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take the route of ace freely of kiss. When he

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was asked, what do you see behind you in what

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you've done? And in that ace freely way, he kind

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of laughed about it and said, it's pretty weird. And

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I have to agree with that in all things that

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I have done, and you can google it, it's all

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just pretty weird. Now, how do you let it go?

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I'm serious about that. How do you let it go?

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Because everybody has their own personal experience, and no matter

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what you've studied inside google pages and or a book,

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your next level of life means what to you and

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what are you willing to sacrifice. I have an entire

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house here that needs more than a couple of hours

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a day to basically just tip it upside down and

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throw everything away. And the reason why is because my

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wife and I do not want to dump this onto

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our daughter, who's going to have to go through this

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house and throw away a bunch of old people stuff.

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It's not fair to her. So therefore that takes time

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required time, and so learning how to work one on

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one with a Google calendar. This is what I'm inviting

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you to do, is to really put focus on what

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your expectations are for the day. Get it on that

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Google calendar, share it with your spouse or whoever you're

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living with, and you stick to it. For instance, like

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my thing today is is that I've got to go

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work out. Is it on the Google calendar? Yes? I've

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got to go get a flu shot? Is it on

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the Google calendar? Yes? Well, what about working on the

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awning on the RV. Yes, it's on the Google calendar.

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If you put it on your calendar, your honeydew list

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is now physical, it's authentic. But if it's up here

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in your noggin, oh come on, you know the way

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it is, and that is well, I'll just do it tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah,

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that doesn't work either. I'm marrow And that's stream thinking