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Speaker 1: And yep, fully convinced. Creativity is an addiction. It is

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that one thing that we need from everybody else and

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they need it from us, and when we don't show up,

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it affects them as well. Unplugged because we will always

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say yes to creativity totally uncap because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Hey,

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it's Zaro, and this is dfrag. Dfrag is something that

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I do in so many ways and shapes. I keep

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a d frag journal where I ask questions and I

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question answers. I have to be truthful because the one

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that's asking questions and questioning answers will call my ass

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out in a heartbeat. That person knows a fake because

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that's living inside of me. And when you learn to

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put trust in those moments when you're questioning and then

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questioning even more, and when an answer comes up and

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it too is questioned, you got to find out what

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the hell is going on because somebody else is going

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to sponsor weakness if they haven't already done so. So

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that's why you have to dfrag. I defrag in a

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journal every day. I've been doing that since November of

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twenty seventeen, and we get this opportunity to DFRAG while

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we're taking a transition walk, a transition walk. We all

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go through transitions. It's time to learn from them. But

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you know what, nobody in your life told you or

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showed you how to move through a transition. And then

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one day here's this freak on of microphone that says,

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have you taken a transition walk yet? What are you

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hearing while you're out there? Question and then question the answers.

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Today's d FRAG is going to put a lot of

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attention on what is moving through you. And because you

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don't take notes, they're forgotten very easily. We train ourselves

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to forget those great moments, Oh I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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when I get home, I'll do that. And then when

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you get home, because things change, had a particular traffic

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light you no longer remember. And then maybe one day

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or late at night, you go, why didn't I do it?

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Because you didn't write it down. My wife and I

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we keep a journal that is for television watching. We're

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binge watchers. That's what the lockdown did for us. We

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keep a written journal of every single show that we're

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watching because it's almost impossible to keep up to date

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with every episode as well as season. You forget, you

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forget because you get drawn into another area. But we

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keep that journal very fresh because we do love the

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shows that we're binge watching and we want to go

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back to them. But we realize that your memory really

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isn't that long. It's kind of like the NFL, not

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for long. It's not every day that I am shown

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the way by the written word of another person. Julia

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Cameron of the Artist's Way was probably one of the

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very first creative minds that spoke directly into the way

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I think, the way I bring words forward, the way

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that I act and react, and the way that I hurt.

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And then today this guest preacher, Franklin, Pastor Franklin, his

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whole entire message is based on one thing. Writers. Yeah, writers, scribes,

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these people that view life and then write about it.

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Because the kings and the rulers of those old days,

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they didn't want to hear about it. They would take

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their knives out and cut out what they didn't like.

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But yet the scribes and the writers took the time

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to write it out. I wrote something last night on

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Facebook that I instantly took down this morning because my

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personality had changed, and it was about how Walmart is

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starting to look into this banana program. The banana program

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when it comes to ceiling is that someone will lay

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the bananas on the checkout scan and then they I

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will pretend to put that sixty dollars stake over the scanner.

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They're losing a lot of money. There's a lot of

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people losing money, and I wanted to talk about that.

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And the reason why I wanted to talk about it

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was so that real people who didn't go to self

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checkout understood where millions of dollars are being lost. It's

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a business world, and you wonder why food prices are

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so high. The cost of theft is just unbelievable. So

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as a writer, as somebody who watches life inscribes it,

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I put it on Facebook. I took it down because

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I don't want to be looked upon as being a curmudgeon.

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But then a listener from my days of terrestrial radio

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took the time to say, I love the way that

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he tells it, the way that he is, He's unafraid writing.

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That's what we're defragging today, not about why I write

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and why I want you to write. We're going to

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talk about why aren't you writing. You're observing the same

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exact life that I am. You're observing the same headlines.

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You are in full view of winning teams, losing teams,

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the dream to be a billionaire because of a powerball lottery.

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You're seeing it too, but you're not writing it. And

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I would love to understand what the block is. So

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let's ask the questions and question the answers. What is

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your place? We're all called to be writers because here's

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what's happening. You're going to talk about the headlines, but

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in the process of sharing the stories, you're going to

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turn it around and you're going to be no different

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than the kings of those days of the Bible where

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you've taken out your knife and you've cut the things

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out that you don't like. Now, this is not a

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guilt trip. I'm just telling you the way that it is.

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What you need to be doing is documenting the emotion

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as it is happening, so that when you do share

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the story, it's accurate and it's not an assumption. So

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the question is what is keeping you? Is it really judgment?

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Is it really about time that you don't think you have,

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And yet I have people that tell me I play

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video games all day, why don't you, Well, it's not

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that I don't have time. I just feel like my

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creative energy is more important than putting a different kind

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of energy in somebody else's creativity. Ask the questions, question

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the answers, the stories that you're sharing, the experiences that

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you're going through. What is it about you that is

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keeping you from telling the truth? And how often do

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you go back to a new story and you can't

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find it it was there? That's when I usually say,

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oh crap, it was clickbait. I was spreading in a

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story that didn't exist. I'd like to read you something

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that this pastor Franklin read from. It was a Psalms

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forty five to one. The words are in my heart

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is inditing a good matter. I speak of these things

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which I have made, touching the King. My tongue is

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the pen of a ready writer. That really blew me away.

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It blew me away in the way that I've been

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a daily writer since July of nineteen ninety four. I

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don't know why I've questioned it ten million times, interacting

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my d frag journal this morning, I have been questioned

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why why? And that's when the stronger side basically put

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his head above ground and said, will there ever come

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a day when you stop asking why and you just

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do it because you know you can? That's a pretty

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important step forward. So why wouldn't I want to share

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something like that with you? A lot of know it

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alls in the world, But how many people who think

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they know it all is because they're hooked up with

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Google dot com share their way of being great leaders

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by way of experience, not assumed experience, but physical experience,

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because they wrote it down and they got it right.

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I am not a fan of Modern Day CNN, Fox

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News and other opinionated driven shows. Not a fan because

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they go out and find these people that are going

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to say exactly what the network wants them to say.

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Not a fan because I don't agree with it, because

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they try to make it sound like that their word

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is the written word. Their opinion is how they're going

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to change the way that people move through their everyday life.

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That's the thing about it. We're allowing other people's opinions

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to control everything that you're doing, and then you might

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be sitting there right now going well, they aren't you

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sharing your opinion right now because you're asking me, why

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am I not a writer? And maybe you know I'm

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telling people that I've got an assumption here that this

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is what the story was about. I mean, seriously, you

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can look at it as that, or you can look

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at it as a reflection in the mirror for you

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to look on the inside of your eyes and say,

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who am I really? Ask the questions question the answers,

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who are you really? And when you start building that

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foundation of getting a little bit stronger and a little

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bit stronger, what happens is is that you start to

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write things down, you start to remember how things actually

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were because you begin to understand that when you kind

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of bend something, it too affects another person's life. But

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you know inside your heart that you bent the story.

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Not an opinion. I've done it. I'm just as guilty.

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And then one day you wake up and you go, hey,

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I got to start telling them the real thing, the

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real deal. I'm going to start writing. And if people

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don't like my writing, I'm okay, because writing is something

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that we all do, but we choose not to ask

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the questions, question the answers, Who are you, I'm Errol

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and that's Deerek