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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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Speaker 2: So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,

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hey Saro, And this is vocal drag.

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Speaker 1: Vocal dfragging is asking the questions and questioning the answers.

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We all have an inner being. Julia Cameron likes to

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call it the inner child. There's a voice inside of

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us at all time, and if you're like me, there's

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probably several different voices. But I just call those files

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is what I do. Like your computer, it's just a

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different part of my personality. But you've got to have

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a defrag moment where you really do sit down and

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ask the questions and question the answers. Because one of

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the things that led me there. How many times have

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you walked with somebody or even found yourself in a

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conversation and you come up with the answer of, well,

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I just don't know. You don't know why you're in

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this mindset? No, I don't Why aren't you asking the questions?

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Why aren't you finding the strength inside of you to

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locate a solution of some sort? So to dfrag and

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to start walking the path of being a defragger. It's

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going to take some honesty from you to talk with

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yourself on the inside. And notice I said to talk

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with yourself, not at yourself and not to yourself.

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Speaker 2: It's with yourself.

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Speaker 1: When you walk that walk and you find it to

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be a journey of learning to listen to the self

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that you are, things begin to come together. You're connecting

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in places that used to be filled and overtaken by anxiety, feared, shame, doubt.

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The goal is to get to know you, and that's

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why vocal defragging is so important to your process. On

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a daily basis, and I do mean daily. I keep

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two different types of de frag journals, a handwritten one

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where I can physically go back and read my writing.

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And I don't know about you, but maybe it's because

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I've been a daily writer for thirty years. But I

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can tell what mood I'm in by the shape and

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size of my lettering, and I can go in there

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and I can study what was triggering, what was putting

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myself in a mindset of how I could have grown

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out of that situation a little bit smoother than what

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I did. And that's why defragging or journaling is so important.

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This is vocal d frag. Today we're talking about something

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that we deal with daily, yearly, lifetime. The word kept

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k E p T. It came up to me this

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morning while I was in prayer. The things that we

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think that we're keeping away from universal energies, we kept

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them away. We didn't talk about it, we didn't put

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ourselves in positions where we could have easily gone through

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the evolution or basically just trying to understand a better solution.

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Speaker 2: We kept it.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is, oh, is that what you think

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you're keeping, it's going to be uncovered no matter what.

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It may not be from you, it may not be

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from this generation, but all that you have kept will

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be seen. One of the reasons why I'm not afraid

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of sharing my daily writing, my journals are open for

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anyone to read, is because it's who I am. You

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have a question, some of the answers are going to

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be in there. But the word kept, what are you

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keeping from others around you? That really actually could lead

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to a peaceful heart. We all make mistakes. I always

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say that we can learn from them, turn them into

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a tool. That doesn't mean that you have to hit

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the streets of the everyday world and start bragging about

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every mistake that you have done. But you can keep

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a journal of some sort, or even a vocal d frag.

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You go back in and you listen to the vocal tones,

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the pitch, the volume to try to figure out what

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your emotions were in that moment of now when you

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vocal dfrag and then when you write things out in

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a journal, and a lot of people fear that because

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they don't want people to read what they're thinking, what

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they're experiencing. It's a protection device. I get it. But

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eventually you start to see a different side of your

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personality and other people see it too when you start

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to break things down and they're going to want to know, well, what.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing differently, what's the big change here?

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing the change, and in that moment, we honestly

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go through a mode of we feel like we're being judged.

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I was researching for an interview that I've got on

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Monday with a huge journalist that has traveled all over

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the world. She has been in Syria, she's been in

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the Arab country, she's been over in Afghanistan, Ukraine, war

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and One of the things that she brings up in

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the bio the secrets that were kept of Ireland's war

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in the nineteen eighties. See, there's that word kept. It

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was kept away from so many people. And when I

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get with her, I'm going to talk to her about

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the reasons behind why it was kept a secret. This

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is through the eyes and the experiences of a journalist,

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not a government, but a journalist who has put a

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lot of focus in on keeping people real. That's what

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she wants to do with every one of her stories,

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to show the other side of war, famine, the other

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side of darkness. It's amazing when you start looking into

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what you have kept away from others. There are tiny

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answers in there that shape the personality that you are.

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Speaker 2: What have you kept away from the light?

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Speaker 1: Does that mean I go out and spill my guts

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on everything that I'm doing in life. No, I try

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to stay reserved by way of trying to observe what

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other people are doing without asking questions. Doesn't that put

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me in a state of assumption, thinking that I know

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what they're going through. Well, if I listen carefully and

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I listen without question, I'm already going to know what

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their story is or what they're sharing, because they're going

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to talk about it. All you have to do is

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step into a conversation as a listener and not a

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one upper. And if somebody gets into an area that

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you've been keeping away from others, then what you face

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is that decision to become more open. And I do

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believe in that openness because it creates conversation. We're doing

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the same thing over and over again. It's like walking

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up Heartbreak Hill here in this forest. One day I

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dream of walking up this hill with other writers, thinkers, planners,

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creative people to talk about the energy of this forest.

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But the only way I'm going to get people here

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is I've going to take this kept secret and make

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it a reality.

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Speaker 2: Heart Break Hill.

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Speaker 1: You're going to get your blood reason, your imagination is

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going to be on fire. You're going to find yourself

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in a place of you know what. I don't want

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to talk about the stock market. I don't want to

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talk about the full moon tonight. I just want to

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talk about everyday life. That's one of the reasons why

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I do the interviews that I do on my podcast.

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I'm not interviewing anybody, I'm just having a conversation. And

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I love it when somebody in the middle of a

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conversation will say, are we going to get this interview started?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Redefined interview because I've been asking questions and I've been

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questioning answers. We've been in this interview, except I just

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happened to call it a conversation. So I want you

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to put focus on the word kept. What are you

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keeping away from the light and others? Because like I said,

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there's so many answers in everything that you've hidden away,

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and when you do that, you're a little bit different

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today than what you were yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But was it positive and is.

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Speaker 1: It leaning more? I'm being negative shamed. I read an article.

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It was based on procrastination and they say it's not

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connected to laziness because laziness says you ain't doing anything,

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whereas procrastination you feel guilty that you haven't done anything.

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Speaker 2: So there's a big difference.

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Speaker 1: So they're trying to connect procrastination basically with depression low anxiety.

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Speaker 2: You see what I mean?

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Speaker 1: So what are you keeping from the conversations that is

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actually making you a procrastinator?

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Speaker 2: Just something to think about.

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Speaker 1: Ask the questions, question the answer is We just had

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a bunch of questions here, just in this conversation alone,

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so hopefully that'll ignite you to say, Okay, I'll do it.

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I'm Errow and that's vocal D Frank