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 is
in your present place of what is right now now.
To get there requires practice. I do one sheet of
paper a day, ten minutes write whatever is moving through
your presence of right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream
thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. It's learning how to trust your
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
April fifteenth, twenty twenty three. The subject at hand is
having the ability, but no vision or inspiration to use
the tools to gain access to a different level of
the performance. There are so many ways to look at this.
I'm a guy of radio forty four years. I know
a great speaking voice when I hear it. That's my ability.
But can that person use it as a tool to
open newer levels of their skills. It's a transparent question.
If you could go back and talk with department heads
and decision makers about your workday performances, could your heart
handle the real reasons why you kept your job. Who
we think we are almost never matches what others have
interest in. Just because I write every day, that doesn't
make me an author. I podcast in a world where
anybody can do this. So I have to ask you,
what is your real skill? What is that skill that's
keeping you employed? What if it's not what you think?
Julia Cameron in the artist way, she challenges those that
have studied her word to sit down with a piece
of paper and write out ten things that you would
love to do in life. And after you write down
those ten things, study it see what your points of
interest really are. And it will shock you because what
you're doing with your profession versus what you enjoy in
life are very far apart. That's when you have to
start working with yourself in order to get into those
areas where you can have joy every day and not
be sitting in a cubicle complaining about your boss my
skills as a radio professional. I wasn't a professional DJ.
I didn't want to sound like a DJ. I always
wanted to be that guy that put a thought out
there for you to hold on to, to maybe grow with,
or to start your own conversation with That's the kind
of air talent that I was. But I wasn't going
to be that guy that was going to splice and
dice and try to be really super funny on the air,
because trust me, I'm not a funny guy. So then
I had to sit down and I did that that
little thing from Julia Cameron, and I noticed, Okay, so
you like to share things, but what am I doing
in order to build a path toward something an outreach
type program where I can physically share things. It became
a journey. It opened up my eyes. I had to
find that strength, that inner core of strength, and I
found it in martial arts. Is not always about kicking
and hitting. It is a walk, It is a way.
It is learning how to put yourself in places that
you have the strength to recover from because we're all
going to fall, We're all going to make mistakes, and
we have to learn how to pick ourselves up and
stand up in the wind. So I ask you, what
is that one thing that you know you have but
you're not using it? And the question after that would
be why now? When can we start? I'm maryl and
that's stream thinking