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Speaker 2: Hey Zaro, And this is vocal d fragging. Vocal d
fragging is taking the time to get to know who
you are as a person.
Speaker 1: Do you do that?
Speaker 2: I mean, how old are you really? Seriously do you
feel old? Do you feel crumpled up? Do you feel used?
Do you feel like you're not getting anywhere in life?
Have you ever asked yourself questions? And then you know
kind of question the answers that you gave yourself or
are you pretty much which typical like everybody else? And
you run to bosses, friends, psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors and other
people to give you the answers that you don't want
to put your energy into You don't want to invest
in the answer, because what happens if you're wrong? I mean,
we tend to forget that life is all about that
being wrong. That's where you learn, that's where you grow,
That's where the sunshine comes from, or that ray of
light that gives you the inspiration to try, try, try again.
But you've got to ask yourself the questions and then
question the answers. I call it vocal d fragging. I
also dfrag in a journal, which I've been doing since
November of twenty seventeen. My god, we're about ready to
answer twenty twenty six. So nine years of asking questions
and questioning the answers has been in front of me.
And the only reason why I went into a vocal
dfrag is because I can go back to that writing
anytime and it becomes the interpretation of the moment of
now and not the interpretation of the moment that it
was felt lived out. So therefore, when you vocalize your
questions and then question your answers, man, you can't change pitch, volume,
and tone. It's documented inside this digital device, which probably
will scare the crap out of a lot of people
because it's like, oh my god, it's my voice. I suck. Yeah,
you suck. We all suck. Just get over it. Okay,
you're never going to like your voice. You're never going
to like anything that you truly say. And if you do, okay,
tell me the path that got you there to where
you finally became satisfied with the victory that you had
in your personal life. I mean, seriously, be honest with yourself.
Where along the way did you find your victory? And
in that process of a victory, how many times did
you swing at that ball and you struck out? See
it's part of the process of not just growing up,
but growing wiser. This is vocal deep ragg This eftic
this week actually came to me late late last night
as I was wrapping up a full day of creativity,
and that usually means that I was probably defragging. And
the thought that came to me was time to pull
it off the highway and allow the mirages to pass.
I want to say that one more time, because I
really wanted to sink inside your mind, body, and soul.
Time to pull it off the highway and allow the
mirages to pass. Now, instantly, I took it as being
the message I'm supposed to give to the fourteen year
old creative self that I was in Billings, Montana who
wanted to have a radio job as his career. He
didn't want to be the architect anymore. He didn't want
to sit there and mess around with being a school teacher.
He thought, radio is my life. I've been trying to
do something with it in my bedroom since the mid
part of the nineteen seventies. I want to do radio
as a profession. This is the fourteen year old in Billings, Montana. Now,
at sixty three, people will say, forty six years of broadcasting,
what are you going to retire? My reply has always
been a very calm. I don't know how to tell
the fourteen year old who is still living in Billings, Montana,
that I am hanging up his dream because I'm not.
But yet this quote came to me. Pull it off
the highway and allow the mirages to pass. So my
d fragging today was based one hundred percent on one thought,
what in your life do you think is a mirage? Okay,
you're going to have to put on your own shoes.
You cannot wear the shoes of those that inspire you,
to influence you and or give you empowerment. You got
to put on your own shoes and answer this question.
What in your life do you see as a mirage
and why aren't you letting it pass. I grew up
in the state of Montana, and one of the things
that I saw a lot of while we were out
there on those long ass highways going up to Bear
Lake or Cooney Dam, or going down to Sheridan, Wyoming
to be with family, is that when it's hot out there,
you see a lot of mirages right there on the horizon.
And Mom used to joke around all the time saying,
you can never catch up to a mirage. And I
pretty much said, I'm going to change that. I'm going
to change the fact that we can touch the mirage
and we can become something from that mirage. I will
allow that mirage to serve as the purpose to plan,
the idea, the gift of the presence of now, because
I see it right now. Therefore it must be something
that I can utilize as a tool right now. And
then how can I teach everything that I learned from
that mirage now? I don't know if I was just
full of crap or what I was thinking when I
was that age up there in Montana. But right now
at sixty three, I'm really looking at this quote. Time
to pull it off the highway and allow the mirages
to pass? Is that my answer for the fourteen year
old kid and building's Montana? What's your answer? Because I'm
still trying to figure out what in your life do
you see as a mirage and is it time to
allow it to pass? Did my father ever pass a
mirage on a highway? Here's a thing. I never looked
behind the vehicle to see if that mirage was ever
behind us. Do you see what I mean? Did we
ever pass the mirage? A mirage is usually right there
on the horizon in front of us. So therefore, what
was the writer putting on the page last night through
methods of defragging, and what was he trying to say?
Pull it off the highway and allow the mirages to pass?
I'm asking you what mirage is? Do you have in
your life that you need to allow to pass you?
And if they do pass you, do they serve as
an inspiration? Because I just mentioned this not even two
or three minutes ago. That mirage is to me where
I'm going to reach it, going to find out what
that mirage is about. I'm going to teach it. I'm
going to incorporate it in other people's lives. So I
bring it back to you again only because I like
using examples so that people can grow from the paths
that we've already walked upon. And did we pull it
off the highway and we're allowing the mirage to pass us?
Does a mirage physically exist? One of my podcasts, which
is called stream Thinking, I will sit there and say
before I jump into the story, it's time to believe
in the mirages. It's time to trust the mirages. It
is time to grow with the mirages. Does that mean
that you're going to become a mirage? I don't think so.
There's a lot more to you than that. And the
reason why is because in reality, when you look up
the word mirage, it is something that exists. You can
see it right there in front of you. But if
you touched it, have you learned from it? Have you
heard from a mirage? What is a mirage in your
personal life? And how can you grow with it? And
why would that fourteen year old kid in Willain's Montana
tell his mother that I am going to reach that
mirage and then I'm going to teach it, pull it
off the highway and allow the mirages to pass. It's
a heavy thought, but do you see yourself in that
mirage or the reality of the moment? Ask yourself the
questions and then question the answers. I call it defraying.