1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,799 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:06,879 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,800 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow, 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,119 unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,519 your present, this place of right now now. To get 6 00:00:18,519 --> 00:00:22,320 there requires some practice one sheet of paper, ten minutes 7 00:00:22,359 --> 00:00:25,039 a day. That's it, just ten minutes write about whatever 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,760 is moving through your moment of now. But you have 9 00:00:27,839 --> 00:00:32,200 to do it without judgment. Stream thinking sharpens your skills 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,640 as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator. 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,159 Learning how to trust what is right now. This is 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,759 stream thinking. Today. We're reading from February eleventh, twenty twenty three. 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,719 Preparing for expected change without rewriting history that hasn't happened. 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,600 Oh God, that's a tough subject. Let me say it again. 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,320 I'm going to say it's slower though, because I know 16 00:00:55,799 --> 00:00:59,759 you do this as well. Preparing for expected change with 17 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:05,120 rewriting history that hasn't happened. This is a giant weakness. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,959 Even while trying to sleep, the moving pictures are constantly changing, 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,599 like a cloud skating across an open caroline of blue sky, 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,159 shape shifting. This is why my daily discipline has got 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,959 to be a cleared head and a cleared heart. A 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,879 creative mind is difficult to keep intact. The attempt is 23 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,280 always made, but somehow the mind goes back into the 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,640 writer's mode. The who, what, where, why, and Where's followed 25 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:40,760 by a huge how how anxiety sets in? The blood 26 00:01:40,799 --> 00:01:45,719 pressure is up? Time for the transition? Walking through a forest, 27 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,840 universal meditation, asking the imagination to give to yourself enough 28 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:57,359 room to breathe expected change is on the way. Find 29 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:05,159 your piece today? How how right transition walks? Let me 30 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,000 explain what that is. Every day my dog Jazzy, the 31 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:13,080 disaster artist, she and I take a transition walk through 32 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,319 this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. My pastor, Stephen Ferdick, 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,000 we connect even though we've never had a conversation, but 34 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:24,520 we connect. In a sermon one Sunday, he said, we 35 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:28,319 don't study our transitions. We don't understand them. We run 36 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,800 away from them. We don't want to be in a 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,639 moment where we have to figure out why we just transitioned. Now, 38 00:02:35,759 --> 00:02:39,000 I've been a daily writer for twenty nine years. Transitions 39 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:42,560 are something that I write a lot about twenty nine 40 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:46,240 years of them. It's taking that moment of who you 41 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,960 are now and who you're about to become, an understanding 42 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:53,960 that it's not the same person. A good example this morning, 43 00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:56,000 when I woke up, I did my daily writing. I 44 00:02:56,039 --> 00:03:00,360 do that every day every day. The transition be between 45 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:03,960 the sofa maybe twenty five feet from here to this studio. 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,879 I have learned to understand what it is that this 47 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,800 person inside this room, this studio is doing. It's not 48 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,120 to self serve, but to share. But in a matter 49 00:03:17,199 --> 00:03:21,120 of hours, I'm going to transition again. I'm going to 50 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:23,039 be at the essential job. I'm going to be in 51 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,520 the community. I'm going to be in a place of 52 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,560 creating solutions that have nothing to do with me. It 53 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,080 has everything to do with real people. You see in 54 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,639 this studio, I imagine people. The essential job I am 55 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,360 with people. Understanding the transitions that each of us go 56 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:46,400 through is an amazing journey. But it's going to take time. 57 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:51,639 Preparing for expected change without rewriting history that hasn't happened. 58 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,759 I am very guilty of writing the story and it 59 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,280 hasn't even happened. That's me. It's what I do. We 60 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:00,759 all do it. We all sit there and we assume 61 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,400 something is going to be played out the way that 62 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:06,840 it is, and we go through a transition here here 63 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:09,520 without the event even happening. And then when the event 64 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:13,360 does happen, we go through another transition. And then we 65 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,800 wonder why we're pissed off, depressed, why we have grave feelings, 66 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,360 why we're always hungry while we're always reaching for a 67 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,879 red bull or other things that take your mind. Remember 68 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,879 it doesn't cure you. It only offers an escape. It's 69 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,680 time to understand your transitions. Preparing for an expected change 70 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:40,160 without writing history that hasn't happened. Know where you are 71 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:47,160 right now. Understand the transition, Understand the intentions, Understand the 72 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,720 mindfulness and the gratefulness of where you are. It is 73 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:54,720 so difficult to do this, but when you do, you 74 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:58,600 will find your peace. I'm Errow, and that's stream thinking.