Speaker 1: Being truthful with yourself is very important. Being addicted to
creativity and identifying yourself as being that addict is very important.
We are addicted to creativity. Why do you think we're
always on Amazon? Why do you think we're always at
the mall? Because we want other people's creativity, and when
it comes to our own creativity, we're shutting that monkey
off because it's striving us wild. And then you wonder
why you have to take melatonin at night to get
some sleep, because your creative monster is trying to be heard. 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 goodness, I was blessed with
the most incredible lecture yesterday. M mmm. Not because of me,
Not because I was the one that was doing the talking, No, no,
no no. The people that were there for the lecture participated,
They got into it, They asked questions, they wanted to learn.
My God, there is no better feeling than collaborationicipate, patient.
When you're bringing something to somebody that will ultimately change them,
it means that they will have the sense and the
direction to change others as well. But man, there's just
no better feeling than that connection being heard and then
seeing what was heard activated. It doesn't happen all the time.
You can go through my daily writing the past year
and a half or so, my lectures, Oh oh oh,
oh oh, they have not been good because I couldn't
figure out where was the disconnection. Why wasn't it materializing?
What's happening here? So I gave it one more shot. Man,
I'm just glad they showed up. I'm glad they showed up. Hey, Tarrow,
This is the daily Mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer. I am a
silent wolf. I watch life, I document it, I study it,
and I invite you to do the same thing, because wow,
there is just so much going on. But do we
have an answer? Are you trying to seek a better way?
What is your journey? This is the daily mess? Building
a page of thoughts for some Uh, I ain't doing that.
I'm not putting my words on a page that's too hard.
Somebody might read it. Oh no, no, no, no, they
will judge me for it. Building a page of thoughts.
Think of it as unlocking the heart. Filling the brain
with the fuel that's required to fire up that creative process.
And then at that moment of writing, my wife was
watching How I Met Your Mother and Ted on the show,
does one thing that changes my entire vision of what
I was going to write about today because it started
off building a page of thoughts, unlocking the heart, filling
the brain with the fuel that feeds the creative fire.
And then Ted says, don't postpone joy. Three words that
carry a huge impact. Don't postpone joy, mainly because many
of us are running around so quickly that we're taking
our eyes up the paths of breaking free business. Friends
and leaders always say go where the money is, which
is the very reason why job hopping has become the
new normal. What have you got to lose? Do a
little bit more work for better take home pay? And
what do we do we start to complain? Don't postpone joy?
Guilty as charged. The outings we make, the reservations have
to be done months in advance, only to be canceled
a week away, all in the name of constantly being available.
Come on, you've been there before. The moment you tell
somebody know they're going to get somebody else, and the
next time there's an opportunity, they're going to call them
rather than you. The goal should be to break free
of always saying yes, it will physically postpone your joy.
That is a heavy subject. Where would we have gone
if we would have said building a page of thoughts
unlucking the heart? But no, Ted, how I met your
mother said don't postpone joy? And we are next week
we were supposed to go camping. We postponed it because
we were given the opportunity to do something, and if
we would have said no, it would have gone to
somebody else. I'm not the only one who does this.
Come on, now, how do you find yourself in a
place of reaching beyond that little fear of never getting
that opportunity again? Now between the two of us here,
I'm being transparent, Okay. The reason why I say yes
to so many conversations with people of creativity is because
what are the chances I'm ever going to get the
opportunity to share a moment with them ever? Again? Slim
to nothing. So when somebody says, hey, look, they're only
open at this time, and you know this time is
already full, how do you move your clock. How do
you move that calendar? What do you do? A cold
sweat just takes over your body because you want the
opportunity to be in that moment. And when you get
to feel that moment, you realize you sacrificed a lot.
But more importantly, because Ted said it today on How
I Met Your Mother, don't postpone joy. Plant that one
in your garden. Let's see what the vines look like
as they climb up the tree. Because a tree never sleeps,
that vine gives it an opportunity to say, WHOA, slow
it down, I'm er whoo. And that's a daily mess.