Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
hey Saro, And this is vocal drag. Vocal dfragging is
asking the questions and questioning the answers. I actually defrag
in two different places in a journal where I put
my words on paper and I can come back and
study it at.
Speaker 2: Any time, any day, any year.
Speaker 1: And I also vocal dfrag, which I find to be
probably a lot more empowering. And the reason why is
because on a page, you don't hear inflection, pitch, volume, tone,
What about that great pause that comedians always talk about,
Because on the opposite end of that.
Speaker 2: Is the reaction.
Speaker 1: So vocal defragging is very very important to go back
to those moments in your own personal life and journey
to hear how it was being delivered as it was
moving through you. This is vocal dfrag a very interesting
subject today and it deals with your past. I'm one
of those people that has spent twenty nine years in
a daily journal doing all I can to stay out
of my past.
Speaker 2: Because we all have a past.
Speaker 1: We all have done things that we don't want to
talk about, or we've done things that we found victory
in and we feel those were the better days. Man,
I want to go back to the good old days.
My mother said that all the time. I want to
go back to the good old days. Well, here's a
thing your past has already lived. You can't time travel.
And I did some research on this. You can't time
travel because the energy that would be required to send
yourself back is impossible to find.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing. It's not been invented. So what
do we do.
Speaker 1: We use our imaginations to take us back into a past,
and we rewrite it, and rewrite it and rewrite it.
We accept it, or we make it darker than what
it really was. So something came to me while I
was in my defrag written journal today, And that is
what you write on a page in your now for
a future reader. It's a lesson from your past that
they can use today. See, that's not time traveling, that's
not going back into your past. When I write in
my journals, many times i'm guilty of saying, dear future reader,
what would happen if we started thinking like that? What
we're doing in our place of right now. To a
future person, be it yourself or someone else, what you
are carrying forward in your right now is a lesson
from your past.
Speaker 2: And so they grow.
Speaker 1: Learning how to live in the present comes with a
lot of changes and challenges. Stephen Ferdick of Elevation Shirt said,
life is mney money, muddy money, marriage is money. From
the mud comes a miracle. I don't want to sound
out churchy and preachy on you here, but it makes
you think about where you are in your present day
and how you act and react in your present moment
of now will have an effect on someone, including yourself,
in the future, and you learn from that past lesson
who learning that lifestyle comes with chances and choices, and
when we make choices, that means we're going.
Speaker 2: To be challenged, and when we're challenged we may not win.
Speaker 1: Then what do we do well, don't walk away from it,
because something that you're living in your now is going
to help that future.
Speaker 2: Yourself learning to put yourself in a position of.
Speaker 1: Decision making based on your now, How will somebody act
the act if I make this decision right now? If
you've made a bad decision, there's going to be impact.
Somewhere down the road. Someone is going to have an
impact from what you did in this moment of now.
For instance, like when I'm not in the mood to
be at the essential job, and when I'm not in
the mood, oh my god, you should hear the thunder
in my soul. I'll give you a good example. Yesterday
when I arrived at the essential job not being in
that moment of now, meaning I was probably stuck in
my past, and I wanted to hang out with my friends.
It was a great looking day with sunshine, the temperature
wasn't too hot. What I did was I pretty much
took it out on somebody else, not in an angry way,
but they asked me.
Speaker 2: Well, how's your day going so far today?
Speaker 1: Well, you can't do that with me, because I'm going
to tell you I was having a great time while
I was at home with my dog. I was writing,
I was being creative. I had all these ideas that
were moving through me. And now I feel like I'm trapped.
And they started saying, well, you only have to be
here till ten pm. Well you can't say that to me,
because ten pm in my soul is a completely different
time period and place in the world, and I wanted
to look at this person and say, you're going home
in five minutes, What the hell do you know about
ten pm? And what it's going to take to get
to ten pm. Those are the things where I need
to say to myself, what did I do in my
past that gave me positive energy when I was feeling
as negative as I was. What you're doing in your
now is for a future person to learn from so
they can use it now. This particular coworker that I
was talking with, he did hear my voice. We did
go into a deep discussion, and I'm sure by the
time I get to that essential job today, the other
managers will know of my feelings and they'll look at
me and they'll think.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, this is who he is.
Speaker 1: What, in fact, who I am is not what I
was displaying yesterday, But what I did in that moment
of now has an impact on what is happening in
the now. Do you understand when you time travel like that,
when you put yourself in a position of understanding how
you act and react is going to have weight in
someone else's life in the future. They won't be living
in the past. By the time they receive the word
of what you did in your now, they're going to
use it as a tool or a weapon against you.
And what is the presence of now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I was once known as the overachiever in being positive,
but in being that overachiever, sadly people didn't believe me.
They thought I was faking it. I had one guy.
I was at a lecture and I was really selling
how beautiful broadcasting is, and he stood up and interrupted me.
He says, what are you trying to sell me here?
Because you sound like you're a salesperson. You sound like
I have to buy into this, and if I don't
buy into it, I'm not going to have success in
this industry. My answer back was, I'm sorry that I
feel like and I'm positive about this. I do believe
in why I'm here and why I'm sharing this with you.
I do believe in the successful career that I've had.
I'm very positive about it. But if you want me
to go down those dark trails to tell you about
the negatives of what it's like to be a broadcaster,
I want you to do it on your time. Don't
do it on the time that others are sharing with
you right now. What you do in your now is
going to be a tool for somebody in the future,
be it you or someone else, taking from your past
and using it in their present. Ask the questions, question
the answers. That's deve fraggen. Put it on a sheet
of paper, or do a vocal d frag so you
can go back and listen to your inflection. Him Meril
and that's vocal d frag