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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now. To get there requires practice.

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One sheet of paper every day, just ten minutes. Write

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about whatever is moving through your presence of right now.

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It's not a Dear John diary, it's not a DeBie Downer.

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It's something that is moving through you right now. You

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could write about a bug on the sidewalk or a

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salamander that you wanted to hit on the road, but

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then you thought, no, learn to respect all living things,

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So just write allow it to be present in your

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now without any type of judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your

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skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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It's learning how to trust what is in your right now.

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This is stream thinking today. We're reading from December twenty eighth,

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twenty twenty four, My last entry inside this book before

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a brand new year breaks out or breaks apart, my

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assume structures of strength. How is it going to play out?

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Rare if ever inside a new year's resolution? Mentally and

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spiritually thinking, the adventure of a brand new year continues,

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and for most of us we have absolutely no control

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over anything but ourselves. In fact, my mother always used

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to tell me, you better watch your p's and q's

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what Yeah. In other words, we better put thought ahead

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of our behavior. Every action doesn't call for a reaction.

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That's where we've got it wrong. These days, we feel

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like if somebody's wronged us, well I've got to give

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you a reaction or you're gonna do it again. It's

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a walk that feels like a run a movie based

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on your real life story, and you're playing not only

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the lead role, but you're the director of your own story.

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How are you making this miracle work? Don dun, duh dum.

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Because I'm a daily writer, I am able to step

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back in history. I'm talking all the way back to

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July of nineteen ninety four, and before that, I was

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known as a poet that would take things that were

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happening in life and write about it. I would put

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it in poetic form. I don't know what happened in

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July of nineteen ninety four, but I just know that

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if I could convince more people to put their personal

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thoughts on a piece of paper, you learn so much

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about the innercore of you, and not the you that's

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been designed by bosses who say you've got to do this,

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there's the door. You got to do that, and I

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don't know how it's going to kind of materialize in

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your own soul when you finally click in the way

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of saying, I have a life that I lived, but

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it's not documented. There's nothing here to show somebody I

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really did do that. I went through the motions. Well

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what did you experience? It's all based on a memory,

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but do you trust your memories? So when I invite

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you to take one sheet of paper every day, just

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ten minutes, and write about whatever is moving through your

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presence of now, that is that one opportunity that you

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are gifting yourself. That's your way of saying, I know

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you have a voice inside of you because I hear it.

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It's louder than even God's voice. It is so loud,

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and yet it controls me in ways that no other

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thing on this planet or universe can do. So what

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do you want to do about it? And when you

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build up that relationship with who you are on the inside,

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you begin to realize you aren't that person that the

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boss man and everybody else around you thinks that they

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have carved you into You are you? So when I

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sit here and I talk about making an entry inside

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my daily writing, and it's based on the new year

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coming to an end. I don't base anything on New

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Year's resolutions. And the reason why, in this conversation, for

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all of these years, the self that I am, he

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has realized when you make a New Year's resolution, you're

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setting yourself up for failure. But it says right here

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there that you're not supposed to have any type of judgment.

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I'm not judging me, But what I'm doing is I'm

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becoming aware of what either triggers me or I just

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ignore it. And it's in those moments of ignoring things

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of importance that we sit there and say, well, why

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didn't I know? Yes you did, Yes you did. I'm

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Marrow and that's stream thinking.