1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,359 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,439 --> 00:00:06,799 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,240 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,919 I woke up from a dream early early this morning, 5 00:00:13,199 --> 00:00:16,960 realizing that this week right here marks my thirty first 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,600 anniversary with this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,039 I didn't know in November of nineteen ninety two how 8 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:29,120 these trees would allow my weirdness to feel welcome inside 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,840 an area of my life that was quickly changing. It 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,159 wasn't entailed nearly two years later that I began a 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,000 daily writing lifestyle, and it required me to be with 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:45,280 this forest daily. At sunrise. You learn so much while 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,200 the rays of light stretched through the unconditional love of 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,799 the trees landing on your writing page. So many photographs 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,640 have been taken of the long shadows of a writing 16 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:59,079 hand holding on to the instrument. In fact, the pin 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,880 I'm using this small warning is the very one that's 18 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,200 featured on the cover of my very first book, One 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,480 man'senty twenty one Thoughts. So I write to the future reader, 20 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,120 and I speak with the future listener. I hope that 21 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:17,239 By the time that this message reaches you, beyond this anniversary, 22 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:20,719 the thirty first year, you too will have felt the 23 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:26,680 amazing love from this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. Hey, zerol, 24 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:28,760 this is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,280 everyday world. I am that daily writer. I am a 26 00:01:31,359 --> 00:01:34,879 silent wolf. I watch life, I view it with a 27 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,359 keen eye, a sense of humor, and a willingness to 28 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:42,519 be the student. And then we just talk. This is 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,239 the daily Mess. One of the most difficult things to 30 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:48,760 accomplish as that daily writer is training your thoughts to 31 00:01:48,879 --> 00:01:53,159 stay free from identifying your place on the calendar unless 32 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:56,359 it's a major mile marker event set inside a headline 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,200 driven moment of history. It's who we are today. Think 34 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,599 our present place is going through so many unexpected news events, 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,359 only to be reminded by actor Rob Reiner on his 36 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:11,280 podcast Who Killed JFK. He reminds us of the decades 37 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,159 events and global worries. I literally have found myself wondering 38 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,879 how I would be at sixty one years old in America, 39 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:25,319 a white male during the Cuban missile crisis, the threat 40 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:29,639 of nuclear bombs blasting it was very real back in 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,280 the days of the early sixties, and yet here we 42 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,680 are in twenty twenty three. See I just put a 43 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,759 timestamp on it, staying true, to stay in, free from 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,520 identifying your place on the calendar. It teaches your heart 45 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,800 to fill the moment with everything else moving around us. 46 00:02:47,879 --> 00:02:52,599 We aren't designed by history makers, but rather our imaginations 47 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:57,159 and a heart vowing to locate. I want to share 48 00:02:57,159 --> 00:03:01,639 that one more time. We aren't designed by history makers, 49 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:07,520 but rather our imaginations and a heart vowing to locate. 50 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:13,599 What are you planting in your imagination? For me to 51 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,759 listen to Rob Reiner's podcast Who Killed JFK. It physically 52 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,400 picked me up from this present place of now and 53 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,360 set me inside the early sixties, stretching up into the 54 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:28,159 mid seventies and beyond. And I asked myself the question, 55 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:32,280 how would I have reacted if I would have been 56 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,520 that sixty one year old man that I am now 57 00:03:35,159 --> 00:03:40,039 in that moment? How much fear and anxiety would I 58 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,960 have gone through? And would I be able to release 59 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,120 it with the power of a writing instrument on the 60 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:52,039 innocence of a page. What are you planting in your imagination? 61 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,879 History makers don't design you. Your imagination and your heart. 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,080 Seeking to locate does get them under control by listening 63 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,159 to them, figuring out who you are, why you are, 64 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,159 and what if I'm arrow? And that's the daily mess.