Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged
stream thinking, learning how to trust what is in your
presence now. To get there requires some practice, some patience.
My exercise each day is one sheet of paper. Ten minutes.
That's it. Write about whatever is moving through your presence
of right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking sharpens
your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as
an activator. Learning how to trust what is right now.
This is stream thinking today. We're reading from May twenty seventh,
twenty twenty three. I call it living the life on
the Google calendar. Basically fill in the blanks, baby. I
rarely ever say no to another opportunity. It's who I've
always been. I mean to say, yeah, I did. It
is an honor and an educational tool. He's been a
part of my journey. I never know where I'm growing. Therefore,
I call it the great Mystery. I'm not saying it's
a good or a bad decision, but it's allowing the
system of living and thinking to be available every day,
to be a different experience. I like that it's never mundane.
I might be exhausted and weirded out by not knowing
what day of the week it is, but I just
know that I lived up to my Google calendar's expectation. Oh,
I'd say it's borderline addiction, the need to always have
something to do. How many people do you know in
your personal life that just consistently tell you how much
they hate their job. When I hear that from people,
I always remind them you made a choice to come
to work today, and in that choice, the one that
you championed, you're adding darkness to it by saying I
don't like the choices that you made. Dig beyond your
personal outer life personality. You've got to understand that no
matter what you do in your day, be it a
Google calendar life like mine, or just go to the
same job every day, the same time, in the same
car on the same highway, that you made a choice,
believe in that choice. You're doing it. Why, Well, you've
got bills to pay, You've got things that you need
to buy, you need to fix things up around the house.
I understand that, but you still made a choice. You
were still the leader in this battle of growing forward.
Trusting that choice is a very difficult thing. That's why
I became a daily writer in July of nineteen ninety four.
I no longer had control of the choices that I
was making. I was just walking through life. But life
is more than that. You are a student of all
things changing, especially in this present day of so much
constant change, be it universal or personal. But no matter
what you do, the moment your eyes open and you
put your feet on the floor, the next step is
your choice. You're in control, not your boss. You made
the choice to go in now, go make the choice
of being the greatest that you can be in that
moment of now. But how do you do that if
all you know is how to quit, or how to
set things aside, to procrastinate and to not do how
do you suddenly become a champion of your choices of
having a greater, better day without having to run to
McDonald's or some sort of fast food place to kind
of re energize what you think is a positive moment.
Look for the little things, put your hands on those
things that are invisible to everybody else, and say I
did this, this was my choice. Now here's the thing
that you can also do if you want to take
a little darker route, when you have those moments where
you say, God, I hate so and so in that office. Man,
they're never friendly. Okay, you created that decision to think
that you felt that way. That's yours. You own it,
so change it. If that person in that office is
driving you nuts, then why don't you take the steps
forward to share a conversation. Just go out and say,
how's your date today? Is there anything I can do
to help you out? All right? Man? Excellent. I know
I'm a little bit busy, but if you need something,
I'm here. Because the thing about it is, though, is
that in your choice, you don't know what their choices are.
You don't know what's going through their head and heart.
They might be having problems at home, they could be
having problems with the people above them. You don't know
what's going on with their banking account, and yet you're
picking up on their negative energy. Congratulations, you can read
body language. Now what do you want to do about it?
It's your choice. Be the leader of that choice. I'm
Marrow and that's stream thinking.