1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,279 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,359 --> 00:00:06,879 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,320 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. 4 00:00:10,519 --> 00:00:13,919 Oh we're gonna talk today, Gonna talk, probably hit some 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,920 subjects that might kind of get inside your head and 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,839 heart in a way where you're gonna go no, no, no, 7 00:00:18,839 --> 00:00:22,679 no no no. But oh oh maybe maybe In a 8 00:00:22,719 --> 00:00:25,960 matter of days, I'll not only be turning sixty one, 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,960 but I'll be celebrating thirty years of an incredible marriage. 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,320 In November, I'll reach forty four years as a broadcaster. 11 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:40,039 Yet mentally, I still think I'm sixteen years old, which 12 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:44,280 is really wrong. According to researchers. The experts say a 13 00:00:44,359 --> 00:00:46,479 sixty year old man should feel like he's in his 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,079 early fifties. So at what age are we supposed to 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,399 stop feeling young? The answer from those who base their 16 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:57,960 lives on human actions and reactions, they say, we stop 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,119 feeling young somewhere around forty three. So what about freaks 18 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:06,000 like me, those who still act like a teen. Doctors 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,719 love it. You're in better physical health and it keeps 20 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:12,680 dementia at bay. Now I'm not saying that I'm denying 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,079 these beautiful six decades that I've been given. There have 22 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,799 been so many amazing journeys. While some say they would 23 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:23,760 do anything to return to a certain age, I gotta 24 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:28,319 tell you I do go back carrying all of this knowledge. 25 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,560 Hates Errol. This is the daily mess. I am a 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,239 daily writer, and maybe that's what keeps me in the 27 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,680 spirit of being so young, is that I've got nearly 28 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:42,799 thirty years of daily writing. It's just freely put on 29 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,959 a page. But I don't go back and read it, 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,599 not unless I'm called to go back to read it 31 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:50,560 to study a habit that I broke free of because 32 00:01:50,599 --> 00:01:53,519 something has unveiled. Because we all know that history does 33 00:01:53,599 --> 00:01:58,599 repeat itself. So I've documented everything so that I can see, ooh, 34 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,280 you could be going back, dude. Let's shape up a 35 00:02:01,319 --> 00:02:03,439 bit here. Okay, let me grab you by the nap 36 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,159 of the neck and let's get you out of that fort. 37 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,280 This is the daily mess. A very good friend once 38 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:11,560 suggested to me. It was about three or four years ago. 39 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:18,439 He said, you know, I like what you're doing, but 40 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,039 I don't. He attempted to share with me his inner 41 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,560 thoughts about my inner thoughts, and he was not in 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,560 connection with how I identify things, with my place with religion. 43 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,479 Like most students of Christ, you take a step back 44 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,199 when you are confronted by other people's beliefs. Here's what 45 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,240 he said in his explanation, some of us aren't on 46 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,599 the same page. To hear others like yourself speak like 47 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,000 it's the only thing you have sounds like fingernails scraping 48 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:54,120 against a chalkboard. Who Okay, let's take note on how 49 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:57,319 I started this. Even though he said these words to me, 50 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,759 I still started after all of these year with this 51 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:04,039 at the top of the page. A very good friend 52 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:08,680 once suggested, I can't tell you how many times HR 53 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,639 pulled me into their offices at work to remind me 54 00:03:11,719 --> 00:03:14,919 to keep my thoughts to myself. That coworkers found it 55 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,240 to be overbearing. I crossed the line. I knew there 56 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,879 had to be changed. What I believed in how I 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,240 lived wasn't welcoming to others. Through awareness and of course, 58 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:33,439 through prayer, the outside shell evolved into smiles, smiles. It 59 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:37,000 didn't matter what was moving through me my thoughts. I 60 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:43,439 was going to smile, not say anything, because through those 61 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:49,800 smiles you can still receive the energy of peace without 62 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:56,039 saying one word smile. But is it a fake smile? 63 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,879 Some people have identified me as that, Oh, you're being 64 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:01,639 fake today. I've even been known to say I've got 65 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:05,360 the plastic candy coat of bathroom mirror smile. But if 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,560 you don't know me and I'm in a crowded place 67 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,240 and I am smiling, you're feeling my energy without me 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:17,199 saying things that are connected to religion. So I challenge you, 69 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:23,480 instead of blurting out what your heart is steaming, allow 70 00:04:23,519 --> 00:04:28,720 yourself to just smile. I'm Marrow and that's the daily mess.