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Speaker 1: Arrow dot net is more than just a podcast. It

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is a podcast network. So far, it's twenty different podcasts,

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one of them being vocal dfrag. Come on, you do

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it every day. You're always asking other people what do

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you think? How do you think I should do this?

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What color goes best with this color? Hey? Sometimes you

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got to stand on your own two feet and ask

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your own questions, then question the answers. It's called vocal defragging.

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It will change your life. It's on erro dot net,

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rre dot net. Enjoy the exploration stream thinking. It's an

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actual daily exercise that I invite you to at least try.

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It's learning how to trust what is in your present

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place of right now, because I want to ask you

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right now, flat out, this is totally off the script.

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You're living a lot in your past. What about that

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future you think you're gonna get to? But everything else

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is standing in the way, you see what I mean?

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Learning how to trust what is in your presence now

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To get there is going to require some practice. Here's

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what I do every single day, and yes it is

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a pain in the ass. One sheet of paper, just

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ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your present

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place of right now with absolutely no judgment, because if

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you're like me, oh, you'll judge anything. An aunt is

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walking in front of you and you notice the wiggle

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in their little tickle bud is like, w I've never

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seen an aunt do that. See you're judging. Stream thinking

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sharpens your skills as a listener, communicator, and as an activator.

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It's learning how to trust what is right now. This

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is stream thinking today. We're reading from April fourteenth, twenty

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twenty five. Working at a grocery store at the age

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of sixty two. Am I essentially that same old man

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that takes his casual stroll through the store on a

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daily basis. Am I that person the elders come in

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and mix and mingle. I don't see this happening at churches.

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I mean at church, you know they've got scheduled visits

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and gatherings. A grocery store is open from six am

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to eleven pm. Some have gone twenty four hours. Come

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as you are. You don't have to purchase anything, and

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see here's the thing. You can even stink, and we'll

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sit there and look at you and smile and service

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you like you are worth a billion dollars whatever. Is

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going through your life. It doesn't matter. There's no judgment.

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See here's the thing. I didn't take this job and

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put on their jersey because I needed a job. I'm

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a radio guy of forty six years, and rarely did

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I ever make personal appearances unless it was getting paid

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because it was a remote where we were making money,

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or we were raising funds for a nonprofit organization. Yeah,

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at sixty two, not in terrestrial radio. But I am

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a podcaster, but we don't do live personal appearances. I

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guess I'm that old man. But you know what, when

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I put on that jersey, I am a connection. And

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do you know who has the greatest stories and are

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so willing to share it? It's not these guys over

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here to your right, the young adults. It's the older

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adults who've got lessons you're not gonna find in a book,

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but they're going to say something that you've been searching

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for for a month, a week, years, and when it

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pops out, you're going to be so grateful that you

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popped in that jersey. In fact, here's the challenge I

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have for you. I'm not even going to invite you

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to take on a job at a grocery store because

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it is unbelievably physical, and you're going to get hurt

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mentally as well as bodily. You're going to get injured.

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It happens all the time, and it's gonna happen more

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than one time a year. But here's my challenge for you.

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You don't have to wear the jersey, but you can

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be a fan of life and go walking through a

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grocery store and meet a lot of incredible people. They

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may not have something in common with you today, but

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after a small little smile and a simple little warm hello,

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you're on a brand new path that you're never going

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to be able to change him. Merril and that stream

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thinking