Speaker 1: I'm blessed with the opportunity to share a lot of
great conversations with creative people around the world. And one
of the things that we really kind of dive into
is the process of bringing creativity forward. Where do you
find the confidence to set it free, to put it
out there in the world. And the reason why I
always bring that up is because I want people who
are hiders to step free from their fears. 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. It's one of those quotes that
I don't think I'm ever going to forget. I knew
exactly where I was when I heard it, how it
affected me, and how I need to learn from it.
The quote was we have to keep failing. The moment
we stop, we failed. It's a thought from a new
film soon to be set free on screens all over
the world. Thomas Edison remember his story. He never stopped
trying to invent the light bulb, and then one day
that little bugger lit up. How many years did Moses
travel across the desert floor. The moment we stop, we failed?
My master and Martial Arts once told me that most
quit their studies the moment that they get that black belt.
All of those times in class when students didn't land
the right kick or punch and or win that tournament,
and they didn't feel the urge to quit until that
black belt was wrapped around their waist. It's as if
the belt weighed too much. I don't know, I'm not them.
All of our lives have moments of escape. It's a choice.
Do you leap now or wait for a different time
in place to fail again and again. No, you didn't
fail until you quit. Hey, Taro, this is the daily Mess,
a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a
daily writer. Movie quotes like this they get inside my
heart and I feel like it's like, dude, this is it.
Find your way, figure it out, learn from it, teach it.
That's a lot of weight. This is the daily mess,
making way for the walk, creating the space to step
through those four walls that we surround ourselves with, totally
setting free that trapped feeling. You've been there, you feel it?
Are you there now? When you're in the car, It's
like uugh, claustrophobic. I've been known to write about just
staring at a wall and feeling energy from that place,
of just positioning my mind. The mental walk has served
as an amazing tool to reconnect with shattered dots. My
transition walks are physical steps inside this forest in South Charlotte,
North Carolina, even while it's thirty one degrees or it's
lightly raining. The way must become the path. The way
is a growing relationship with building a more balanced process.
I mean, we're all changing, and these days it feels
like it's happening every hour. The expectations don't walk away,
so stress sets in and the mind and body always ache.
Make way for the walk. You don't need a collection
of trees walking through the neighborhood needs to feel free
your source of energy while you receive their source of
energy making way for the walk. Okay, So how does
that tie in with we have to keep failing the
moment we stop. We failed. We aren't doing what we
were designed to do. We're allowing technology to smooth things out.
I'm reminded of this every time that my neighbor's robot
lawnmower is scooting across that lawn. Oh, it looks beautiful.
It really does. But I'm reminded of what about the
farmers and the people that would get out there and
work the soil with their mind, body, and soul. They
got into that soil. As a child, we had this
gigantic garden in South Billings, Montana, and we would have
to get out there and weed that garden. We got
so dirty underneath our nails. But at harvest time that
was a blast for me because when we were pulling
those potatoes from the ground and those carrots, I would
eat them raw right on the spot. That is still
a place of joy inside of my heart. But as
we step free of what we were supposed to be
doing the way we were designed to work the entire body,
what's happening to us? A lot of people are breaking.
A few weeks ago, I was at the hospital and
you should have seen the number of people that were
coming in to be fixed from leg injuries, hips, arms, shoulders,
everything we're breaking now. I don't remember my parents or
my grandparents while I was growing up, always talking about
the body breaking. But it's physically before us today. We
have to keep failing. The moment we stop, we failed.
Make your way for that walk. You've got to keep
things moving and growing forward in everything that you do,
from the finance to the building of an idea, to
what you're doing at work, to having relationships with real people.
A relationship on Facebook or Twitter, it's not real. That's
a fake world. Getting up close, getting to know, making
way for the walk. I'm Marilyn and that's the daily mess.