Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. We've got to have it. It's
coming from you, it's coming from your family members, It's
at Walmart, it's at Amazon. We are surrounded by creativity.
You know that supply chain issue that we had a
couple of years ago. That's nothing. If creativity suddenly stopped,
so would the world 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
stream thinking learning how to trust what is in your
present moment. To get there requires some practice. This is
what I do. One sheet of paper every day, just
ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your presence
of what is right now, no judgment though, no judgment.
Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning to trust what is in
your right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading
from January two, twenty first, twenty twenty three. Why do
people dread doing things that need to get done? Wait
a second, I've done my research. Research identifies dread as
being a sense of uncertainty, a nagging sense of doubt,
sometimes leading to panic attacks. Getting sick to your stomach,
even depression. And yes, there is such a thing as
dreadful procrastination, usually caused or associated with very repetitive jobs
or a lack of feedback. The most important thing to
remember here is is that dread and procrastination are not laziness.
They're classified as mental health conditions. Learning to work with
dread is my hardcore mission. I dread a lot of
physical things, and when I'm late, I have to pay
a monetary price. Why was I late? I dreaded it.
I chose the fine over having to put myself through
what needed to get done. We all have something that
we dre But what's the total cost in your personal life?
Is it money? Heartbreak, family time, workplace opportunity? What is
your dread? Can you be honest enough with you about
that dread? I have a beautiful forest here in South Charlotte,
North Carolina. What I love about this forest is that
I believe inside my soul it is stronger and more
beautiful when it's natural. But my human eye, the one
that's trained by those beautiful magazine covers, are going no, no,
I've got to get out into that forest and clean
that forest floor up. But I dread it because it's work.
More importantly, I know that when I start lifting up
those heavy branches at sixty years old, I'm gonna be
feeling some pain. I'm gonna twist something, and then I'm
gonna pay for it for several weeks or several months.
It's part of the dread. It's not that I don't
like paying my bills. I just don't like seeing my
bank account go boo boo boo boo boo boo boo.
I dread it, but I end up paying more because yeah,
I had to pay the fine, the fine of being late.
It's not that I like being late, it's just I
dread the boo boo boom boom boom boom boom boo boom.
What about you? Do you dread falling asleep? There are
a lot of people that I share conversations with that
do not like to sleep at night. They would rather
stay awake because the nightmares are so bad. They don't
want to have to deal with waking up from something
that they completely had no control over. I spend a
lot of time researching dreams, but that doesn't make me
an expert. I am not, but I use meditation as
my dread identifier and releaser of pain. Is there such
a thing a releaser of pain? Getting rid of the
stress caused by dreams you can't control? But I too
dread going to sleep at night. I will watch that
clock and when I hit a certain time, it's like,
go go now, go now, go now, Because the closer
I get to midnight, the more I can make it
to two o'clock before that first dream boom hits me.
I dread it. I don't think it's hate, but it's
more like uncomfortable, insecure, And remember what researchers said. You
do get sick to your stomach, you do get panic attacks,
you do become depressed, and remember that it is not
a sense of laziness, but rather it's classified as a
mental health condition. Seek help, get a professional to step
into your moments of dread and try to understand how
you can thin it out a bit. We all have dread.
It's part of our everyday world. Do you dread going
to social media? But you do it anyway, and it's like,
oh God, why did I do that? Coca Cola and
PEPSI have these brand new products out constantly. I dread
going in into a convenience store because I'm gonna go, oh,
I gotta taste that, and then I pay for it.
We have dread in every step that we take. But
can you get it under control? The answer is yes.
I'm a daily writer. I'm also a d frag writer.
That means I break it down. I ask the questions
and I question the answers. It is so important to
even stream think saying, hey, it it was good that
peep tasting pepsi, But let's break it down. What did
it do to the inside core of your body. You're
gonna get a stomach ache down? Well, I mean there
was some sugar. Break it down, Break it down, break
it down. Do some stream thinking, have an honest to
God conversation with yourself, and when you do, the dread
kind of lightens up a bit. But I think one
of the best tools that you can use are what
I personally have used. Okay, first of all, meditation is
very difficult because your mind won't shut off. It takes many,
many years to master the fine art of meditation to
just kind of check out a little bit. But what
I do to help me get into that moment where
the mind eases up on its judgment. Is I listen
to what I call head music. It's frequency music. You
can find it on YouTube. Find your frequency and step
free of your dread. I'm Eryl and that's stream thinking.