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 stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in
your present, this place of right now now. To get
there requires some practice one sheet of paper, ten minutes
a day. That's it, just ten minutes write about whatever
is moving through your moment of now. But you have
to do it without 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 February eleventh, twenty twenty three.
Preparing for expected change without rewriting history that hasn't happened.
Oh God, that's a tough subject. Let me say it again.
I'm going to say it's slower though, because I know
you do this as well. Preparing for expected change with
rewriting history that hasn't happened. This is a giant weakness.
Even while trying to sleep, the moving pictures are constantly changing,
like a cloud skating across an open caroline of blue sky,
shape shifting. This is why my daily discipline has got
to be a cleared head and a cleared heart. A
creative mind is difficult to keep intact. The attempt is
always made, but somehow the mind goes back into the
writer's mode. The who, what, where, why, and Where's followed
by a huge how how anxiety sets in? The blood
pressure is up? Time for the transition? Walking through a forest,
universal meditation, asking the imagination to give to yourself enough
room to breathe expected change is on the way. Find
your piece today? How how right transition walks? Let me
explain what that is. Every day my dog Jazzy, the
disaster artist, she and I take a transition walk through
this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. My pastor, Stephen Ferdick,
we connect even though we've never had a conversation, but
we connect. In a sermon one Sunday, he said, we
don't study our transitions. We don't understand them. We run
away from them. We don't want to be in a
moment where we have to figure out why we just transitioned. Now,
I've been a daily writer for twenty nine years. Transitions
are something that I write a lot about twenty nine
years of them. It's taking that moment of who you
are now and who you're about to become, an understanding
that it's not the same person. A good example this morning,
when I woke up, I did my daily writing. I
do that every day every day. The transition be between
the sofa maybe twenty five feet from here to this studio.
I have learned to understand what it is that this
person inside this room, this studio is doing. It's not
to self serve, but to share. But in a matter
of hours, I'm going to transition again. I'm going to
be at the essential job. I'm going to be in
the community. I'm going to be in a place of
creating solutions that have nothing to do with me. It
has everything to do with real people. You see in
this studio, I imagine people. The essential job I am
with people. Understanding the transitions that each of us go
through is an amazing journey. But it's going to take time.
Preparing for expected change without rewriting history that hasn't happened.
I am very guilty of writing the story and it
hasn't even happened. That's me. It's what I do. We
all do it. We all sit there and we assume
something is going to be played out the way that
it is, and we go through a transition here here
without the event even happening. And then when the event
does happen, we go through another transition. And then we
wonder why we're pissed off, depressed, why we have grave feelings,
why we're always hungry while we're always reaching for a
red bull or other things that take your mind. Remember
it doesn't cure you. It only offers an escape. It's
time to understand your transitions. Preparing for an expected change
without writing history that hasn't happened. Know where you are
right now. Understand the transition, Understand the intentions, Understand the
mindfulness and the gratefulness of where you are. It is
so difficult to do this, but when you do, you
will find your peace. I'm Errow, and that's stream thinking.