Speaker 1: And yep, fully convinced. Creativity is an addiction. It is
that one thing that we need from everybody else and
they need it from us, and when we don't show up,
it affects them as well. Unplugged because we will always
say yes to creativity totally uncap because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Hey,
it's Zaro, and this is dfrag. Dfrag is something that
I do in so many ways and shapes. I keep
a d frag journal where I ask questions and I
question answers. I have to be truthful because the one
that's asking questions and questioning answers will call my ass
out in a heartbeat. That person knows a fake because
that's living inside of me. And when you learn to
put trust in those moments when you're questioning and then
questioning even more, and when an answer comes up and
it too is questioned, you got to find out what
the hell is going on because somebody else is going
to sponsor weakness if they haven't already done so. So
that's why you have to dfrag. I defrag in a
journal every day. I've been doing that since November of
twenty seventeen, and we get this opportunity to DFRAG while
we're taking a transition walk, a transition walk. We all
go through transitions. It's time to learn from them. But
you know what, nobody in your life told you or
showed you how to move through a transition. And then
one day here's this freak on of microphone that says,
have you taken a transition walk yet? What are you
hearing while you're out there? Question and then question the answers.
Today's d FRAG is going to put a lot of
attention on what is moving through you. And because you
don't take notes, they're forgotten very easily. We train ourselves
to forget those great moments, Oh I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah,
when I get home, I'll do that. And then when
you get home, because things change, had a particular traffic
light you no longer remember. And then maybe one day
or late at night, you go, why didn't I do it?
Because you didn't write it down. My wife and I
we keep a journal that is for television watching. We're
binge watchers. That's what the lockdown did for us. We
keep a written journal of every single show that we're
watching because it's almost impossible to keep up to date
with every episode as well as season. You forget, you
forget because you get drawn into another area. But we
keep that journal very fresh because we do love the
shows that we're binge watching and we want to go
back to them. But we realize that your memory really
isn't that long. It's kind of like the NFL, not
for long. It's not every day that I am shown
the way by the written word of another person. Julia
Cameron of the Artist's Way was probably one of the
very first creative minds that spoke directly into the way
I think, the way I bring words forward, the way
that I act and react, and the way that I hurt.
And then today this guest preacher, Franklin, Pastor Franklin, his
whole entire message is based on one thing. Writers. Yeah, writers, scribes,
these people that view life and then write about it.
Because the kings and the rulers of those old days,
they didn't want to hear about it. They would take
their knives out and cut out what they didn't like.
But yet the scribes and the writers took the time
to write it out. I wrote something last night on
Facebook that I instantly took down this morning because my
personality had changed, and it was about how Walmart is
starting to look into this banana program. The banana program
when it comes to ceiling is that someone will lay
the bananas on the checkout scan and then they I
will pretend to put that sixty dollars stake over the scanner.
They're losing a lot of money. There's a lot of
people losing money, and I wanted to talk about that.
And the reason why I wanted to talk about it
was so that real people who didn't go to self
checkout understood where millions of dollars are being lost. It's
a business world, and you wonder why food prices are
so high. The cost of theft is just unbelievable. So
as a writer, as somebody who watches life inscribes it,
I put it on Facebook. I took it down because
I don't want to be looked upon as being a curmudgeon.
But then a listener from my days of terrestrial radio
took the time to say, I love the way that
he tells it, the way that he is, He's unafraid writing.
That's what we're defragging today, not about why I write
and why I want you to write. We're going to
talk about why aren't you writing. You're observing the same
exact life that I am. You're observing the same headlines.
You are in full view of winning teams, losing teams,
the dream to be a billionaire because of a powerball lottery.
You're seeing it too, but you're not writing it. And
I would love to understand what the block is. So
let's ask the questions and question the answers. What is
your place? We're all called to be writers because here's
what's happening. You're going to talk about the headlines, but
in the process of sharing the stories, you're going to
turn it around and you're going to be no different
than the kings of those days of the Bible where
you've taken out your knife and you've cut the things
out that you don't like. Now, this is not a
guilt trip. I'm just telling you the way that it is.
What you need to be doing is documenting the emotion
as it is happening, so that when you do share
the story, it's accurate and it's not an assumption. So
the question is what is keeping you? Is it really judgment?
Is it really about time that you don't think you have,
And yet I have people that tell me I play
video games all day, why don't you, Well, it's not
that I don't have time. I just feel like my
creative energy is more important than putting a different kind
of energy in somebody else's creativity. Ask the questions, question
the answers, the stories that you're sharing, the experiences that
you're going through. What is it about you that is
keeping you from telling the truth? And how often do
you go back to a new story and you can't
find it it was there? That's when I usually say,
oh crap, it was clickbait. I was spreading in a
story that didn't exist. I'd like to read you something
that this pastor Franklin read from. It was a Psalms
forty five to one. The words are in my heart
is inditing a good matter. I speak of these things
which I have made, touching the King. My tongue is
the pen of a ready writer. That really blew me away.
It blew me away in the way that I've been
a daily writer since July of nineteen ninety four. I
don't know why I've questioned it ten million times, interacting
my d frag journal this morning, I have been questioned
why why? And that's when the stronger side basically put
his head above ground and said, will there ever come
a day when you stop asking why and you just
do it because you know you can? That's a pretty
important step forward. So why wouldn't I want to share
something like that with you? A lot of know it
alls in the world, But how many people who think
they know it all is because they're hooked up with
Google dot com share their way of being great leaders
by way of experience, not assumed experience, but physical experience,
because they wrote it down and they got it right.
I am not a fan of Modern Day CNN, Fox
News and other opinionated driven shows. Not a fan because
they go out and find these people that are going
to say exactly what the network wants them to say.
Not a fan because I don't agree with it, because
they try to make it sound like that their word
is the written word. Their opinion is how they're going
to change the way that people move through their everyday life.
That's the thing about it. We're allowing other people's opinions
to control everything that you're doing, and then you might
be sitting there right now going well, they aren't you
sharing your opinion right now because you're asking me, why
am I not a writer? And maybe you know I'm
telling people that I've got an assumption here that this
is what the story was about. I mean, seriously, you
can look at it as that, or you can look
at it as a reflection in the mirror for you
to look on the inside of your eyes and say,
who am I really? Ask the questions question the answers,
who are you really? And when you start building that
foundation of getting a little bit stronger and a little
bit stronger, what happens is is that you start to
write things down, you start to remember how things actually
were because you begin to understand that when you kind
of bend something, it too affects another person's life. But
you know inside your heart that you bent the story.
Not an opinion. I've done it. I'm just as guilty.
And then one day you wake up and you go, hey,
I got to start telling them the real thing, the
real deal. I'm going to start writing. And if people
don't like my writing, I'm okay, because writing is something
that we all do, but we choose not to ask
the questions, question the answers, Who are you, I'm Errol
and that's Deerek