Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
coming to the page, arriving with discipline, but rarely is
the heart ever in the mood to release and receive.
Although it is positive, I can see why so many
people find no reason to use ink as a connection
to communicate. It's not a fear of being read, but
a huge wonder if the well will ever become dry.
So many creative people rely on their dark times to
fuel their need to bring something to life. As a
daily writer of thirty years, I'm not into that mental
space with my heart. Clearing out the shadows and ghosts
keeps the process locked down. Forward emotion, which means what
when it feels like everything else has stopped around you,
to which I ask, has it really stopped? Just because
you're feeling blocked doesn't mean that you have no path
to walk upon. It's also not a good reason to
jump paths. That's when confusion steps in, and because it
too isn't moving or producing like you want it to,
the emotions are flooded with doubt. There's a reason why
I turn to writing. It hits the core of the
source of energy. Therefore, those inner voices are given the
chance to speak, Hey, Sarah, this is the daily mass,
a chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a
daily writer. I am the silent wolf. I sit on
the sidelines and I watch, I listen. I observe in
ways to where I can become the student and then
the teacher, and we can grow every step forward by
taking the time to be in the presence of what
is right now. This is the daily mess. In the
moments that it takes to evolve into the acceptable you.
I'm going to say that one more time because it
went by really fast and I wanted to hit you
in a way where you're going to go, oh go.
In the moments that it takes to evolve into the
acceptable you, what could you have been doing before getting
to this place of accepting you? How do you prepare
to be you? My dog Jazzy has this instant thing
about waking up and getting the darn day started. The
first thing that I do each morning is I write.
There is no studio time until three pages are filled
with words and thoughts. My main reason is to set
up the mindset to clear out things that I held
onto all night long, because I know once I get
inside that studio, I'm going to have anywhere between three
to seven interviews, and then I have to post them
on the podcast to be ready by accepting who it
is that I am and how am I going to
evolve into this person. When I hosted morning radio shows
back in the nineteen nineties, I arrived at the studios
every day at four am just so I could prep
and get pumped up on coffee. Now today, when I
prep for these interviews, I do them three to five
days in advance to have total control of accepting who
it is that I need to become. But in your
moments of building today's you, what could you've done while
you were gaining access to the acceptable you? Do you
suddenly become? Do you instantly switch tracks if things aren't
playing out the way you want them to? Or do
you sit around complaining? Eh, that's a punch in the gut,
isn't it. How do you react when things are not
going the way that you want it to. How do
you find that place where it's the acceptable you? I've
sat down with so many different creative people, and the
majority of them we all agree on one thing. The
acceptable you has got to be liked by you. Now,
could that be one of the starting points for you?
Do you like yourself? I'm not asking you in a
concer seated or overconfident way. Do you like yourself? What
is the acceptable you? And the acceptable you? What does
it expect from the outside you. It's a growing process
that takes time. But when you start noticing how your mind,
body and soul do have this harmony and it can
be reached at any time of the day, then you
learn to accept you quicker and more often. I'm Eryl,
and that's the daily mess.