Speaker 1: Living a life of understanding that creativity is an addiction
unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity, totally
uncut because we all make mistakes, so turn it into
a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Because I have been
a daily writer for twenty nine years, I don't know
what it's like to be in your shoes. I mean,
what must it be like to wake up on a
new morning and not have to jump into an uncharged
moment of creative writing. No matter what mood I'm in,
I still have to write because nothing happens in my
day until there's been a moment of writing. Mentally, it
clears up my thinking patterns while putting the heart in
a place of rebirth. Sadly, each and every one of us, you, me,
your neighbors, your parents were all creatures of habit, which
means many of our moods and moves are a repeat
of actions and reactions, Which is why writing is so
important to me to help clear the mind's path so
there can be a seed planted in a new season.
It's when the body aches that we find reason to
step back to go to where we know, which I
believe becomes the excuse to never reach through what's keeping
us back? Yet we'll complain about it to say nothing
ever changes. It has roots in our daily habits. Prying
those roots loose is another great reason to write kiss.
It's a chore, it's a challenge, but it's also a
walk and way of life that gives you the opportunity
to make a choice. Hey, Cheryl, this is the Daily Mess,
a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am that
daily writer. No, I'm not always in the mood to
put pen to paper. You got to be open and honest,
and you got to be transparent with all other writers
and explain that it doesn't just happen. It's in agreement
with the inner core with the outside shell. It happens
because you work together in harmony. I call it my jack.
This is the Daily Mess. I came across a quote
this morning on television. When did having an open mind
lead to anything good? Jim Belushi said it on his
TV show. It's such an open ended thought, especially when
having a closed mind keeps a person away from newer
adventures of personal growth. Of course, I had to do
some research here, and it shows that open mindedness is
a positive character quality that enables us to think critically
and rationally. We are less swayed by singular events, more
resistant to suggestions and manipulations. Getting yourself on such a
path requires awareness. We're all set in our own ways
and protect those ways so that we don't have to change.
I have a good friend who's walked away from her very,
very successful career because the decision makers changed the times
that they expected her to work for one year she
kept an open mind. It's left her in a place
of mental disconnection. Therefore, she's reimagining her life, accepting less
for better hours and fewer business expectations. When did having
an open mind lead to anything good? Each day that
I step into I want to have an open mind
and a cleared heart, but I also find myself in
places of reliving what I've already done, the same habits,
the same ideas. But maybe with a little twist here
and there, you could go through my defrag journal and
you're going to see a pattern of the way that
I think. But I utilize the strength of that pattern
so that I can go in there and say, look,
you keep doing the same thing. Let's change this up.
Let's go this direction, Let's go that direction. I use
excuses to shape my day, just like we're doing this
Swedish death cleaning. There was an eighty four percent chance
of rain in the forecast yesterday. We were supposed to
do the Swedish death cleaning, taking things to the city dump.
But because that weather forecast said there's an eighty four
percent chance of rain, the stuff that we would have
put in the back of the Ford F one fifty,
it would have been drenched. It would have been difficult
to put into the dump. You know what happened. It
didn't rain. It was a beautiful ninety degree day. So
today I feel that that angst, that that disappointment in
the reasons why I allowed an excuse to get in
my way. I should have known by eleven am yesterday
it wasn't going to rain. It doesn't take too long
to take the trash that you've created in life and
put it in the back of an F one fifty
and take it to the city dump. When did having
an open mind lead to anything good? I've had broadcast
companies that have come after me. They want me to
be a part of their creative teams to help them
go and be lifted through this Internet driven world. I
get to the meetings and I don't don't have an
open mind. I'm completely closed in because I'm set in
my way. Why why are we this way? How can
we challenge ourselves to be in that place of open mindedness,
a positive character quality that enables us to think critically
and rationally. We are less swayed by singular events, more
resistant to suggestion and manipulation open mindedness. Are you challenged
by it? Or are you so set in your ways
that it's like I think with an open mind, I
just don't react with an open mind. I'm marrow and
that's the daily mess