Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, 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.
There's no way that I'm the only one that goes
through this every night, writing while you're dreaming, and yet
when you write it out and you want to go
back and read what you have written out, it's gone.
There's no physical presence of all of that energy put
onto that page. And then you remind yourself, I was dreaming.
But what if we could write while we dream late
at night. It seems like an easy task, but igniting
the ambitions to put words on a page demands a
focused mind, not something in Lalla land. I do dream
about writing, but without notice, all of it, like I said,
is gone. I'm not getting it back. What was I
writing about. I don't remember. It was a dream. Well.
I had to do some research here, and the research
says that writing text messages while you sleep is the
new normal. Experts say it's also very dangerous. In a
recent study, twenty six percent of college students admitted to
sending out messages without really knowing they did it. Mental
health professionals love hearing about how people like to write
before going to bed. But we have a problem here.
It can wake up the natural system of sleep because
it's difficult to let go of what you were creating
on that page. I've always called it waking up the monsters.
In the same study, they do say a proper discipline
can make it better to sleep at night. Write for
only five minutes, not six, not four? Five minutes? Why
can't we write while we sleep? Would you really want
to read it in the morning? Hey, Tarrow, this is
the daily mass, chronological walk through an everyday world. I
am a daily writer. I write about what's in this
moment of now. There is so much that we can
be learning if we would pay attention. My brother Teddy,
God love him, he would always put his middle finger
on his forehead and go think, think, think, don't stop thinking.
And I learned from that because what was he feeling
in that moment of reminding me to think? What is
in this moment of now? There's always a lesson, and
we choose to ignore it and then complain about life
ten minutes from now. This is the daily mess reaching
that's a big word, reaching into the presence of what's
quickly becoming a brand new day. Without that activation, today
is just going to turn out like yesterday and the
day before. My parents had jobs late into their seventies
and then into their eighties. Although we never talked about it,
I'm sure it's because there was no real payoff in
their retirement. They kept reaching. Learning how to identify what
you're reaching for is essential to the journey. Because I'm
a daily writer, I know my goals, I know where
I need to be traveling. We aren't getting anything back
from the investment. Reaching extends. It's moving ourselves forward while
creating a sense of security. I mean, it's too easy
to land a job and then settle in. We've learned
to accept life as it is. My parents knew they
had to show up at their late night jobs. Then
they would sleep until twelve noon and then get ready
to reach into that job laid into their seventies and eighties.
So I asked, very honestly, what is your reach? It
has to be bigger than a goal and much larger
than a dream. The reach has to be fully activated
before you receive the blessings reaching. What is that ambition
that you're trying to get to and the word trying
really falls flat on my path. And the reason why
is because trying means you're trying, it's not doing. There's
a difference between trying and doing. Reaching is the same
exact thing. What are you reaching for? And why can't
you grip it? Is it too large? Too heavy? Is
it impossible because maybe you don't have the skills to
actually have it? Not everybody can play in the NBA,
the NFL, and Major League Baseball. Those that are on
those teams are the luckiest people on the planet. The
same is true about terrestrial radio. Anybody who is doing
terrestrial radio in this modern day and age with streaming
everywhere lucky, very very lucky. But so many like to
just get the job and settle in, while those who
are starving for the performance are out here going what's next?
What am I reaching for? I'm gonna get this, I'm
gonna ge I'm gonna attempt this, I'm going to break this.
I'm going to go here and I'm going to achieve.
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? Reaching achieve? Now teach it?
What did you find while reaching and then achieving? Because
no matter where you go, there's always somebody behind you
that is also reaching, but they're having a difficult time achieving.
Where are the teachers? Where are the motivators? Most of
the time, what we have are people that just tell
us what to do because we showed up one day
at work and we fit in. We just kind of
just settled in and then the boss man's going, ah,
I gotta get a moving I deal with it all
the time at my essential job. They just come in
and they're not reaching. They're standing there, they're on their
phones in that chair. So I invite you to reach
and then achieve, and in that process of victory, teach it.
I'm errow And that's the daily mess.