Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now. To get there requires practice.
One sheet of paper every day, just ten minutes. Write
about whatever is moving through your presence of right now.
It's not a Dear John diary, it's not a DeBie Downer.
It's something that is moving through you right now. You
could write about a bug on the sidewalk or a
salamander that you wanted to hit on the road, but
then you thought, no, learn to respect all living things,
So just write allow it to be present in your
now without any type of judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your
skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
It's learning how to trust what is in your right now.
This is stream thinking today. We're reading from December twenty eighth,
twenty twenty four, My last entry inside this book before
a brand new year breaks out or breaks apart, my
assume structures of strength. How is it going to play out?
Rare if ever inside a new year's resolution? Mentally and
spiritually thinking, the adventure of a brand new year continues,
and for most of us we have absolutely no control
over anything but ourselves. In fact, my mother always used
to tell me, you better watch your p's and q's
what Yeah. In other words, we better put thought ahead
of our behavior. Every action doesn't call for a reaction.
That's where we've got it wrong. These days, we feel
like if somebody's wronged us, well I've got to give
you a reaction or you're gonna do it again. It's
a walk that feels like a run a movie based
on your real life story, and you're playing not only
the lead role, but you're the director of your own story.
How are you making this miracle work? Don dun, duh dum.
Because I'm a daily writer, I am able to step
back in history. I'm talking all the way back to
July of nineteen ninety four, and before that, I was
known as a poet that would take things that were
happening in life and write about it. I would put
it in poetic form. I don't know what happened in
July of nineteen ninety four, but I just know that
if I could convince more people to put their personal
thoughts on a piece of paper, you learn so much
about the innercore of you, and not the you that's
been designed by bosses who say you've got to do this,
there's the door. You got to do that, and I
don't know how it's going to kind of materialize in
your own soul when you finally click in the way
of saying, I have a life that I lived, but
it's not documented. There's nothing here to show somebody I
really did do that. I went through the motions. Well
what did you experience? It's all based on a memory,
but do you trust your memories? So when I invite
you to take one sheet of paper every day, just
ten minutes, and write about whatever is moving through your
presence of now, that is that one opportunity that you
are gifting yourself. That's your way of saying, I know
you have a voice inside of you because I hear it.
It's louder than even God's voice. It is so loud,
and yet it controls me in ways that no other
thing on this planet or universe can do. So what
do you want to do about it? And when you
build up that relationship with who you are on the inside,
you begin to realize you aren't that person that the
boss man and everybody else around you thinks that they
have carved you into You are you? So when I
sit here and I talk about making an entry inside
my daily writing, and it's based on the new year
coming to an end. I don't base anything on New
Year's resolutions. And the reason why, in this conversation, for
all of these years, the self that I am, he
has realized when you make a New Year's resolution, you're
setting yourself up for failure. But it says right here
there that you're not supposed to have any type of judgment.
I'm not judging me, But what I'm doing is I'm
becoming aware of what either triggers me or I just
ignore it. And it's in those moments of ignoring things
of importance that we sit there and say, well, why
didn't I know? Yes you did, Yes you did. I'm
Marrow and that's stream thinking.