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. Oooh, goodness, goodness?
Can I say one more? Goodness? Goodness? Becoming sixty one?
The daily challenges and dark spots in our hearts, the grudges,
and the moments that you wish we just fade from
the page. Here I am at sixty one. You find
yourself redefining portions of your ambition, almost like those professional
singers that can no longer sing in that upper range
that once made them so famous. We all move through
methods of change that we expect, respect, dislike, and destroy.
But somewhere along the way, all that was once bright
becomes a smudge or scratched out thought. Before reaching forty,
I remember wanting to hold onto everything. I was trying
to learn as much as I could consume. By fifty,
I started sorting things out. My mind was becoming a hoarder,
doing all I could to mentally save everything. Today's sixty one.
We continue to work our way through this thing called
the Swedish death, cleaning, cleaning out the mind the body,
the soul, and the entire self. Hey, Sarah, this is
the daily Mess, a chronological walk through an everyday world.
I am a daily writer. I see a mile marker
and I think, wow, we can learn something from this.
Let's teach it, let's activate it, Let's grow beyond where
we stood yesterday. This is the daily mess we took
in that movie Asteroid City Yesterday, a story about a
writer who falls deeply in love with all of his characters,
and no matter how tough it became, his real mission
was to never stop telling the story. There is a
powerful statement in this movie. You can't wake up if
you don't fall asleep. You can't wake up if you
don't fall asleep. Wes Anderson drives that thought deep into
our movie Loving Souls. But is such a thought possible not?
According to research, they claim the mind begins to play
games after being awake for twenty four hours and longer.
The world record, by the way, which will never be
broken because they've dropped this game from the Guinness Book
of World Records. But the world record was once eleven
days and twenty five minutes. I know how I am
if I go eighteen hours without sleep eleven days and
twenty five minutes. I can't imagine where that person's mind went,
because they sure didn't have it when they woke up
the next day, day number twelve. Now, there are some
things that are quickly affected. It includes our reaction time.
Our speech begins to slur after a few hours, we're
filled with anger or irritable. Our vision is out of focus,
and our muscles begin to have trimmers. You've been in
that state where something just goes by in your arm.
It's tired, it wants you to rest. Trusting your sleep
is a cinch to better health. My wife always reminds me, hey,
you're never going to catch up on sleep. Once you've
lost it, it's gone forever. I know those days. As
a child, we wanted to stay up, we wanted to
watch those three am movies. As an adults, we barely
make it past four to thirty in the afternoon without
taking that quick nap. In fact, new research shows that
taking that mid afternoon nap is actually brilliant for you,
and that businesses should actually adopt that plan. Give you
some time to go take a nap. But you know
how we are. We would take that sleep time and
run off and go do something that would exhaust our system.
Start writing a journal about how you're sleeping, how many
hours you're getting. When you're not getting any sleep, what's
waking you up in the middle of the night. And
the reason why I bring that up is is because
just because you're in bed doesn't mean you're asleep. I
study yoga nidra, and yoga nidra actually is meditation, meditation
that gets inside your mind. It gets inside there and
it really brings a form of relaxation. But you're not sleeping.
And although I use nidra as a way to relax
the mind, body, soul and self, it's not sleeping. And
I know on the opposite side of the day things
are going to be affected. Keep a written journal about
how you sleep, take it to your doctor, share your journey.
I'm Marrow and that's the daily mess.