1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,399 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,919 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,400 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,359 I love words. Words will come to me when I 5 00:00:14,439 --> 00:00:16,600 least expect it, and damn if I don't pick up 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,120 the dictionary and start looking up to figure out what 7 00:00:19,199 --> 00:00:20,920 is this word all about and how can I use 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,600 it today? The word that got me today scruples a 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,399 feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to morality and 10 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:32,960 propriety of a course of action. Yeah, I was used 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:34,759 in a sentence this morning, the very second I woke 12 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:36,200 up and I was sitting on the edge of the 13 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,679 bed and I said, I need to get my scruples together. 14 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:41,840 That's when my wife goes, what what I've never heard 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,719 of scruples? What are you talking about? Which took me 16 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:47,320 by surprise. I mean, we all have feelings of doubt 17 00:00:47,399 --> 00:00:50,439 and hesitation. They've just put an aim on it, scruples. 18 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:53,439 I believe it was my father that would always sternly 19 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,000 tell each and every one of us to pull our 20 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:59,399 scruples together. Dad didn't like his children to be a 21 00:00:59,439 --> 00:01:02,520 bump on a law, mainly because his training in the 22 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,000 US military meant constantly moving forward. He knew things wouldn't 23 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,159 get done if we just sat around with our scruples, 24 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:13,760 just letting things just be filled with doubt and hesitation. 25 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,239 He wanted action, and he got it from us because 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,760 he would say things like that, don't get your scruples 27 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,760 in the way. Hesitation, doubt. We live with it daily 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,159 rather than fixing the mental decision. It's easier for each 29 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,239 and every one of us to dive into that smartphone 30 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,359 or to jump into a binge watch. Daily writing helps 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,799 me get my scruples together. Hey, it's ero. This is 32 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,280 the daily Mess, a chronological walk through an everyday world. 33 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:43,079 I am a daily writer. I've been doing this since 34 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:46,040 July of nineteen ninety four, and so when words come 35 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:48,760 at me, is it out of habit or is it 36 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:52,079 that I'm truly blessed with the opportunity to receive new 37 00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:55,560 things to talk about? This is the daily Mess. I 38 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:58,879 think the sun has elected to sleep in today. Like bananas. 39 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:02,480 We always depend on these things to be here, and 40 00:02:02,519 --> 00:02:08,319 when they aren't, we will let it poison our inner ambitions. Basically, 41 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:09,919 let me give you a better picture of what's going 42 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,400 on here? Eight forty eight am looks like a sunset 43 00:02:14,439 --> 00:02:17,280 at eight forty eight pm. My mind is going am 44 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:19,960 I supposed to be waking up or going to sleep? 45 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:23,039 There are ways to get around this struggle. Some of 46 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,759 them include waking up at the same time every day, 47 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,599 check resetting the heat in the house to be warmer 48 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,319 when you get up. I'm gonna argue with the experts 49 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,120 on that one. The reason why is because if I 50 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:41,240 wake up to a nice, warm, cozy house, you think 51 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,199 I'm going to get out of bed. Hell no, I'm 52 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,159 gonna be going. Oh give me that pillow. It serves 53 00:02:48,199 --> 00:02:51,439 as an invitation to relax, not get up and move. 54 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:54,840 These are the months of fall, and that means one thing, 55 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,639 shorter days and later sunrises. And I'm not the only 56 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,479 one infected by this life of light. A good cup 57 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,879 of hot coffee doesn't work as fast as you would 58 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,400 like it. I could have two or three of these 59 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:07,759 little monkeys over here, and it's like, oh my god, 60 00:03:08,319 --> 00:03:10,319 I've still got my scruples going on here. I can't 61 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:13,280 get my junk together what's going on? So you've got 62 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:16,800 to push your mind, your body, your soul. I use 63 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:21,120 daily writing as that instrument, as that tool to say, 64 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:24,680 wake up, let's move forward. If the bananas and the 65 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,479 sun aren't going to be there today, move on, let's 66 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,159 go do pineapples and red food coloring. I don't know 67 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:33,439 why I said that. I just tried to get myself 68 00:03:33,439 --> 00:03:36,560 in a moment where I didn't have doubt or hesitation. 69 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,599 How do you move through your moments of being in 70 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:45,159 scruples when you have that doubt that hesitation? Do you 71 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,639 sit down or do you say my Google calendar is 72 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:53,479 so full today and tomorrow and what I don't get 73 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,680 done today, that means tomorrow is going to be a mess. 74 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,960 So put your scruples away and let's get more. I 75 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:03,080 do it through writing. I do it by coming into 76 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,080 this studio and realizing I'm not in here as a hobbyist. 77 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:11,280 I'm in here to make something effective, to grow it forward, 78 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:15,080 and being in a moment of scruples screws it all up. 79 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,000 I'm Eryl, and that's the daily mess.