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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We've got to have it. It's

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coming from you, it's coming from your family members, It's

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at Walmart, it's at Amazon. We are surrounded by creativity.

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You know that supply chain issue that we had a

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couple of years ago. That's nothing. If creativity suddenly stopped,

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so would the world unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity. Totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged

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stream thinking learning how to trust what is in your

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present moment. To get there requires some practice. This is

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what I do. One sheet of paper every day, just

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ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your presence

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of what is right now, no judgment though, no judgment.

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Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning to trust what is in

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your right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading

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from January two, twenty first, twenty twenty three. Why do

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people dread doing things that need to get done? Wait

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a second, I've done my research. Research identifies dread as

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being a sense of uncertainty, a nagging sense of doubt,

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sometimes leading to panic attacks. Getting sick to your stomach,

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even depression. And yes, there is such a thing as

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dreadful procrastination, usually caused or associated with very repetitive jobs

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or a lack of feedback. The most important thing to

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remember here is is that dread and procrastination are not laziness.

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They're classified as mental health conditions. Learning to work with

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dread is my hardcore mission. I dread a lot of

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physical things, and when I'm late, I have to pay

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a monetary price. Why was I late? I dreaded it.

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I chose the fine over having to put myself through

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what needed to get done. We all have something that

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we dre But what's the total cost in your personal life?

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Is it money? Heartbreak, family time, workplace opportunity? What is

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your dread? Can you be honest enough with you about

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that dread? I have a beautiful forest here in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina. What I love about this forest is that

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I believe inside my soul it is stronger and more

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beautiful when it's natural. But my human eye, the one

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that's trained by those beautiful magazine covers, are going no, no,

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I've got to get out into that forest and clean

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that forest floor up. But I dread it because it's work.

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More importantly, I know that when I start lifting up

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those heavy branches at sixty years old, I'm gonna be

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feeling some pain. I'm gonna twist something, and then I'm

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gonna pay for it for several weeks or several months.

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It's part of the dread. It's not that I don't

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like paying my bills. I just don't like seeing my

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bank account go boo boo boo boo boo boo boo.

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I dread it, but I end up paying more because yeah,

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I had to pay the fine, the fine of being late.

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It's not that I like being late, it's just I

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dread the boo boo boom boom boom boom boom boo boom.

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What about you? Do you dread falling asleep? There are

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a lot of people that I share conversations with that

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do not like to sleep at night. They would rather

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stay awake because the nightmares are so bad. They don't

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want to have to deal with waking up from something

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that they completely had no control over. I spend a

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lot of time researching dreams, but that doesn't make me

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an expert. I am not, but I use meditation as

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my dread identifier and releaser of pain. Is there such

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a thing a releaser of pain? Getting rid of the

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stress caused by dreams you can't control? But I too

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dread going to sleep at night. I will watch that

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clock and when I hit a certain time, it's like,

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go go now, go now, go now, Because the closer

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I get to midnight, the more I can make it

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to two o'clock before that first dream boom hits me.

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I dread it. I don't think it's hate, but it's

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more like uncomfortable, insecure, And remember what researchers said. You

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do get sick to your stomach, you do get panic attacks,

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you do become depressed, and remember that it is not

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a sense of laziness, but rather it's classified as a

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mental health condition. Seek help, get a professional to step

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into your moments of dread and try to understand how

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you can thin it out a bit. We all have dread.

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It's part of our everyday world. Do you dread going

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to social media? But you do it anyway, and it's like,

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oh God, why did I do that? Coca Cola and

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PEPSI have these brand new products out constantly. I dread

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going in into a convenience store because I'm gonna go, oh,

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I gotta taste that, and then I pay for it.

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We have dread in every step that we take. But

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can you get it under control? The answer is yes.

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I'm a daily writer. I'm also a d frag writer.

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That means I break it down. I ask the questions

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and I question the answers. It is so important to

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even stream think saying, hey, it it was good that

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peep tasting pepsi, But let's break it down. What did

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it do to the inside core of your body. You're

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gonna get a stomach ache down? Well, I mean there

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was some sugar. Break it down, Break it down, break

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it down. Do some stream thinking, have an honest to

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God conversation with yourself, and when you do, the dread

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kind of lightens up a bit. But I think one

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of the best tools that you can use are what

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I personally have used. Okay, first of all, meditation is

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very difficult because your mind won't shut off. It takes many,

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many years to master the fine art of meditation to

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just kind of check out a little bit. But what

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I do to help me get into that moment where

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the mind eases up on its judgment. Is I listen

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to what I call head music. It's frequency music. You

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can find it on YouTube. Find your frequency and step

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free of your dread. I'm Eryl and that's stream thinking.