Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. You crave it when you need it,
when you want to release it, when you're trying to
just get by, you're always trying to come up with something,
or you've got too much to hold. Creativity is always
going to be there. The question is when does it
show up? Ultimately, it's up to you or is it
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. My wife just sent
me a photograph. It says it's bar collector row, a tool.
H The little note that she put with it says,
you can do anything with this. It's a tool. Well,
I see a screwdriver, I see a can opener. I
see so many things in this. And the weird bizarre
thing about this whole entire thing is that it's like, well,
wait a second. When you put words on here that
say that it can do everything, I almost feel like
that it should be a picture of her, right, I
mean my wife, honestly, and maybe someone in your life
does everything, but it doesn't look like a tool. It's them.
And sometimes I have to wonder in this day and age,
if we saw the people that we surround ourselves as
tools rather than people who just do things for us,
there might be a newfound respect. My sister was one
hell of a tool in more ways than you could
ever imagine, especially when it came to her mindset. But
she was the caretaker for three members of my family,
and now she has joined them in a place of peace,
and I thank her for every day that she put
in as that tool. But my weakness was is that
I always saw her as my sister, that little pain
in the ass that drove me crazy when I was
a kid and even as an adult because she had
a mouth that just wouldn't stop. But this picture reminds
me of not only my wife, but my sister. People
that can do so many things, but we see them
as people and not the brilliant tools that they are. Hey, Errol,
this is the choice. This is what I was writing
while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.
Today we're reading from March twenty fourth, twenty twenty three,
building a new day. Oh, it happens every twenty four hours. There,
it is right there in front of you, that gigantic
ball of clay and You've got to build a new day,
making yourself available for what you've planned, and yet endlessly,
something else is always going to get on the path.
It gets in the way. As the production director of
a huge broadcast company, I learned to never invest in
a full day's plans, be ready for down moments, and
always have something to fill in where there is silence. Ultimately,
the Google calendar meant absolutely nothing to me because people
in the sales department were endlessly given permission to fly
by the seat of their pants. I'm not building a
negative here. It's not a bash against people. The mission
is to redesign your thinking process when things aren't going
your way. Quit being a quitter. Quit saying why are
you doing this to me? I hate my job. That's
one of my pet peeves when people say I hate
my job. Just drop what you're doing and go just
go walk away. We don't need to hear that kind
of negativity inside a place that is designed to reach people.
The mission is to always make yourself available to master
the art of sudden change, because one day you're gonna
be that change. Yeah, your number is going to be
on that list. That gigantic company that you hate but
you keep going back to Yeah, you know what they're
doing these days, they're cutting back. They're back to their
old habits again. Ask Google, Yeah, Ask Facebook, Yeah. Ask
all those people in the digital world that invested in
so many people to be on their team to lift
them to greater and better times. And now, without question,
they're gone, just like that. This is not a negative,
it's not a bash. It's not to ignite some sort
of fire. It's time for you to invest in the
self that you are, to be that tool that I
was talking about, like my wife and my sister, to
be able to fix things without saying I don't like
my job. I don't want to have to drive through traffic.
Be the tool. Don't be a tool. Oh God, we
don't need another tool. But I want you to be
the tool, the one that's able to fix things. And
when there are more cutbacks, you go. Whatever I got
six months out of you, I got what I needed. Congratulations,
We both won in those six months. We got it.
Having the confidence and the courage to be a self leader.
Does it have to be a group leader, doesn't have
to be a CEO, be a self leader because those
voices inside your head and heart every fricking day, are
screaming at you. Why are we here? Oh? I hate
the smell of burnt hot dogs in the microwave oven.
Why do they even have it in this company? They
need to service real food. Come on, come on, be
a tool, learn to fix everything, be a part of
all four corners. The new mission is to stay positive,
grow beyond. Oh it's in you and you don't have
to be in the mood for it, just be pared
for it. Eye maarrow. And that's what I was writing
while the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.