Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
Speaker 1: yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
Speaker 1: So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
Speaker 1: hey Saro, And this is vocal dfrag. Vocal defragging is
Speaker 1: asking yourself the questions and questioning the answers, building up
Speaker 1: a relationship with the self that you are. So many
Speaker 1: times we rely on others to help shape us, especially
Speaker 1: those that are in control of our careers. They do
Speaker 1: it this way, do it this way. I told you
Speaker 1: to do it this way. Don't do it your way,
Speaker 1: make it my way. And so we get shaped. And
Speaker 1: what happens is there's a lot of disgruntled people. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of sadness. There's a lot of misguided answers
Speaker 1: and questions and steps. And then we sit there and wonder, well,
Speaker 1: where did I go wrong? Have you ever sat down
Speaker 1: and asked yourself, real, honest to God questions and then
Speaker 1: questioned the answers. That's really what the goal is. The
Speaker 1: goal is to build up a better relationship with yourself.
Speaker 1: I keep two different DFRAG journals handwritten journal so that
Speaker 1: I can have physical evidence of the questions that I
Speaker 1: have asked and be a vocal d frag because I
Speaker 1: need to know the empowerment of conversation, to be able
Speaker 1: to listen to the inflection, the pitch, the volume, the tone.
Speaker 1: This is vocal d frag very interesting subject today. It
Speaker 1: came to me while writing in my morning pages. Are
Speaker 1: we trying to catch up or keep up? Look around
Speaker 1: you mainly look at yourself. Are you trying to catch
Speaker 1: up or keep up? There's really a big difference there,
Speaker 1: and I was very shocked to come across a lot
Speaker 1: of research that has gone into this subject, because to
Speaker 1: catch up means that you have fallen behind, and to
Speaker 1: keep up means, hey, I'm equal with you, but I'm
Speaker 1: just going to keep up with you, or keep up
Speaker 1: with the expectations that you've placed on yourself. Catching up
Speaker 1: is almost impossible. You can do a little bit here,
Speaker 1: a little bit there, whereas keeping up is kind of
Speaker 1: just maintaining the ability of keeping your disciplines in line.
Speaker 1: But there are many times as a podcaster being somebody
Speaker 1: who's in the movie promotions business as well as being
Speaker 1: somebody who's got an essential job at a grocery store,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm trying to catch up, to get
Speaker 1: back up to where I used to be. But the
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is, I'm not ever going to
Speaker 1: be where I used to be. It was a different
Speaker 1: world when I put in all those hours in the
Speaker 1: radio world, got to do the radio station promotions, got
Speaker 1: to create commercials for unbelievable clients. I'm not in that
Speaker 1: world anymore. But the mind has got to be able
Speaker 1: to let go of where you once stood and find
Speaker 1: out where you are today. So how can we transition
Speaker 1: into keeping up versus catching up? By being honest with yourself,
Speaker 1: by asking those questions and then questioning the answers, by
Speaker 1: developing a relationship with the person that you are in
Speaker 1: this present place of now. But so many people are
Speaker 1: afraid of their now because they're attached to what they
Speaker 1: call the good old days. Or Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: invest this much time into the future because I know
Speaker 1: that when the future gets here, then I'm going to
Speaker 1: be prepared and I'm going to reap on the savings.
Speaker 1: It's not the way it works, because we all know
Speaker 1: the future is controlled by everything else around us, including
Speaker 1: those bosses, including people in your family and friends. Your
Speaker 1: next decision, trust me, will be made by somebody else
Speaker 1: and you're just in it to play along. So ask
Speaker 1: yourself that question. Sit down with the tablet, pick up
Speaker 1: a digital device, and just ask, am I trying to
Speaker 1: catch up? Or am I just trying to keep up?
Speaker 1: Break yourself down because this article that I read was
Speaker 1: based on a woman's life, A woman who has a career,
Speaker 1: who is a mother, who is a neighbor, who does
Speaker 1: all these different things when it comes to hobbies, she
Speaker 1: has so many different things and expectations that she always
Speaker 1: felt like this she was trying to catch up, when
Speaker 1: really the goal is to just keep up. Becoming aware
Speaker 1: of who you are and how you develop your day
Speaker 1: is how you stay in tune with what you expect.
Speaker 1: For instance, like today I was back in the podcast studio.
Speaker 1: It's a Saturday. Why would I even go in there?
Speaker 1: Because I was trying to catch up. I did five
Speaker 1: interviews while we were camping, and those interviews had to
Speaker 1: be transferred over to the hard drives. And I also
Speaker 1: do a show called CTCs, which is done inside a
Speaker 1: grocery store. I had to transfer those files. I was
Speaker 1: in my heart behind. I needed to catch up. But
Speaker 1: then when you start thinking about it, was I really
Speaker 1: trying to catch up or just keep up with what
Speaker 1: I normally do on a Saturday, spend a little less
Speaker 1: time inside the studio, just transferring, not producing, just bringing
Speaker 1: things to I didn't go in there to pay my bills.
Speaker 1: I didn't go in there to do anything fancy or
Speaker 1: post anything that was going to get me some hits
Speaker 1: on the web. The goal was to change my mindset.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to catch up. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: keep up with what I normally do. So maybe put
Speaker 1: that in your process of some of the things that
Speaker 1: you'll do today. Decide for yourself what you want to
Speaker 1: do and how you want to execute it. How you
Speaker 1: talk to yourself and how you present yourself in the
Speaker 1: mirror plays a big role in this game of catch
Speaker 1: up or keeping up. Be nice to yourself, look at
Speaker 1: what you're doing, and change out that word, I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to catch up. No, you're trying to keep up. Remember,
Speaker 1: catching up means you have fallen behind. Keeping up is
Speaker 1: is that you're just right there with them. You're very
Speaker 1: equal and you just want to measure up. Ask the questions,
Speaker 1: question the answers. I call it defragging. Get to know
Speaker 1: who you are and start being better than what you
Speaker 1: were yesterday. I'm Merril, and that's vocal. D freg