Monday, January 13, 2020
What Were You Thinking
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My father was crucial when it came to how his children thought. No matter what we did he'd always stop the walk and ask, "What were you thinking?" As a teenager I'd never have a truth filled answer for him. I wasn't interested in what I was thinking it was more about what I was doing. As a daily writer my process of progress is all about documenting what's endlessly moving through me. I don't write thoughts down for me. It's to locate how these thoughts can reach others who need to stop and think. I'd love to be a bird sitting in a tree. All of these things we push ourselves into bringing into a moment of reality must look like an ant hill with a billion six legged insects dashing for whatever they feel they should be doing. What were you thinking when you first started the car this morning? What were you thinking during the Critic's Choice Awards when your favorite movie or television show didn't go home with the trophy? On this podcast I go back to November of 2016 and study the thoughts of a writer who honestly put into his pages, "The American dream isn't what you think. Ask anyone who prefers to dream about being healthy and never getting hurt more than anything." Social Media is a thinking persons sport. Dropping a thought bomb on travelers that may or may not give you a reaction. There have been many times where I've punched in a thought and by morning I had to quickly take it down. I've asked, "What were you thinking?" A person doesn't have to truly know you to come up with what they think of you. Once you toss a thought out there do you ever think about the impact of how a reader is interpreting your expression? Once it connects you can't take it back. Being a thinking kind of writer puts your creative mind in several different places. With too much thought you can easily become a perfectionist. Too much thought takes away from being present in this place of now. Too much thoughts might influence friends and family to ghost you. Thinking about everything takes the fun out of just doing it.
Friday, January 10, 2020
I Turn The Page
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We talk about daily writing a lot because it's been part of my path and decision making since July of 1994. A habit I picked up while studying the wisdom and experiences of Julia Cameron in The Artist Way. I didn't read a book. I became a lifelong student of an author that understands the empowerment of why you are chosen to be a creative person. But if you don't document the journey what have you honestly learned along the way? On this podcast we put focus on October 31,2016 where a lot of energy was put on the second page. An extremely important page in my daily writing. I write three and more a day. The second gets a lot of attention. The first is always a prayer. It's my discipline. I don't make it to page two until page one is complete. It's not that I'm a Bible thumper. It just clears my path of any debris still clinging to bottom of my feet. Page two is when the writer sets the pace. Not just in the moment of placing words on a page but its been known to control the atmosphere of the entire day. How I approach page two and how it's delivered truly has the strength to make a mandate. On that day in October of 2016 the writer talks about page two in a small piece of poetry called I Turn The Page. When he arrives at page three he begins to question the number of pages that a 26 year writer must physically change. One thought hits him. In this day of billions and trillions and if you don't have them you're pretty much just another number. In this day of huge numbers I realized that maybe as a daily writer I've turned just over 22,000 pages. At that time of writing why did 22 years look so tiny? For my book One Man's 1021 Thoughts. It required that many days of writing to make the book possible. 1,021 is 2.5 years. Now the bombshell question. So many of us complain about getting older and how much we hurt or feel like it's not been fair. At 57 I'm only 20,805 days old. Millions, billions and trillions and in that atmosphere of numbers where do you fit in? Pick up a writing instrument and begin a journey of sharing your story before somebody writes it for you.
We talk about daily writing a lot because it's been part of my path and decision making since July of 1994. A habit I picked up while studying the wisdom and experiences of Julia Cameron in The Artist Way. I didn't read a book. I became a lifelong student of an author that understands the empowerment of why you are chosen to be a creative person. But if you don't document the journey what have you honestly learned along the way? On this podcast we put focus on October 31,2016 where a lot of energy was put on the second page. An extremely important page in my daily writing. I write three and more a day. The second gets a lot of attention. The first is always a prayer. It's my discipline. I don't make it to page two until page one is complete. It's not that I'm a Bible thumper. It just clears my path of any debris still clinging to bottom of my feet. Page two is when the writer sets the pace. Not just in the moment of placing words on a page but its been known to control the atmosphere of the entire day. How I approach page two and how it's delivered truly has the strength to make a mandate. On that day in October of 2016 the writer talks about page two in a small piece of poetry called I Turn The Page. When he arrives at page three he begins to question the number of pages that a 26 year writer must physically change. One thought hits him. In this day of billions and trillions and if you don't have them you're pretty much just another number. In this day of huge numbers I realized that maybe as a daily writer I've turned just over 22,000 pages. At that time of writing why did 22 years look so tiny? For my book One Man's 1021 Thoughts. It required that many days of writing to make the book possible. 1,021 is 2.5 years. Now the bombshell question. So many of us complain about getting older and how much we hurt or feel like it's not been fair. At 57 I'm only 20,805 days old. Millions, billions and trillions and in that atmosphere of numbers where do you fit in? Pick up a writing instrument and begin a journey of sharing your story before somebody writes it for you.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Releasing The Clutter
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We've all had one of those days when everything seems to be running smoothly then someone stops by for a moment and drops a thought into your process of living. You do everything to shake off their words. You didn't want to truly react to their message because being nice means not being judgmental while the giver is standing right there. Their thought came with hooks and man it finds a way to attach itself to your every breath. On this podcast we leap into the daily written words put into action on October 30, 2016 where I talk about how I was told to keep digging. Keep digging? Why would someone tell me to keep digging? Because I live a lifestyle of living in the present there was no way I was gonna go into a past overtaken by challenging changes and experiences. Yet I could hear the persons words, "Keep digging." In the daily writing I took on the thought. I wanted to know its purpose and reason only to realize the mind body and soul were already doing it. In fact we're all guilty of it. Questioning our purpose and reason. We want it handed to us right now. I mean they don't sell it at Walmart or on Amazon so just give it to me! Keep digging. Our system of choices and experiences are extremely cluttered that if you were given the chance to take a tour of your inner core you wouldn't fit. There's too much in there. One of my pet peeves is when someone says, "You've got to have an open mind and heart." No! Being open is like having no virus protection on your computer. Keep digging. There's so much in your thinking process that you actually stink. Keep digging. Not to hold onto memories but to rid yourself of what you don't need. Keep digging. Move beyond the challenging times that brought you pain. Keep digging. Get past what you felt was an incredible victory. Keep digging. Clear your place in the present so that newer experiences have room to grow. Keep digging.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 183
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If "Time" was a manufactured product how much would it cost at Walmart? Would we waste it like so many people waste our time? The idea of respecting other people's time has become an issue of those holding the complaint aren't being fair to someone who might have gotten stuck in traffic or its just another bad day. My grandparents never complained about time. I on the other hand am a time freak. Three hours early is six hours too late. In living this lifestyle I've had to learn how to build a relationship with something that was invented because it must have been very difficult to know where we were in the day when the sun was hidden behind a rain cloud. To be a fly on the wall when it was agreed upon that sixty ticks make a minutes which we need sixty of to create an hour but there are only 24 hours in the day. Why? It's not that I want more time! On this podcast we talk about how our mind bodies and souls probably couldn't handle longer drawn out ticks on the clock. We want information now. Fast food isn't fast anymore. I've lived in the lower corner of the U.S. since 1985 and I swear over the past 35 years southern people are talking faster. What's the rush? What are we doing with the content we digest everyday? I read the other day that the perfect sermon from preachers in 2020 is 28 to 32 minutes. Unless you're watching it on YouTube then we're in and out inside two minutes. The digital age has made life more convenient but what are we doing with our extra time? I did an interview with one of the top dogs of Robert Half about the importance of AI's. He said, "Employees will have more time to do bigger and better productive things." So bad I wanted to ask, "To train their other fingers to move as fast as their thumbs while texting and posting?" Savoring time is a daily discipline. I'm always in search of something that has been labeled boring. I want to step into for one reason. Through boredom time slows down.
Monday, January 6, 2020
Its Wherever You Want To Put It
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I start things off with a question that most can easily shrug off, "If you think going public with religion is a tough cookie try doing it with your daily writing." I free form the words that land on a page. I think it's because after 40 years of being a perfectionist in radio I decided in 1994 to just let stuff happen. No matter what don't let it be edited. My first published book One Man's 1021 Thoughts came directly from the daily writing. Simple thoughts from each day for a total 1021. Even while putting the book together to be back inside the daily writing felt like I had stolen someone's journal. I had to keep telling myself that it was ok to be present in this place. Which is pretty much what this episode is about. Those moments where you have to break away from people and go spend about ten minutes with yourself. Go talk it out. Go listen to the inner core of your present self. Not many get that. Yet they'll complain about having a bad day, year or life. It's because your outside shell or inner being has turned its back on the situation and there's a communication breakdown. Nowhere is it written that humans should not go sit down and have a conversation with themselves. Whip out the listening tools and prepare yourself for a question and answer. Free form it. Don't be a judger or perfectionist. Go into that ten minutes with the openness of knowing that your personal relationship with every character you are is going to be heard today, tomorrow and every day that follows. I do podcast that goes back 18 years into my writing. Sometimes I laugh, study deeper or shake my head from side to side. But in all things we do there's always a lesson. To activate it begins with a conversation. Free form it.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Never Called To You Can't Do
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The title alone challenges me. I look at it and feel prepared to take it on. It says, "You can't achieve." Or at least as a reader that's how I interpret the headline. You'll never hear me say I wasn't called to be a hardcore award winning martial artist. I accepted the challenge and made my way through the levels of change and continue to grow with it spiritually. As I celebrate my 41st year in broadcasting I openly admit there were many times along the trail that I was extremely upset with my reasons for staying true to the industry. Lets be extremely honest here. Your job is no different from anyone else's. It always looks great from the outside but once you start working and creating within its avenues of success and failure your every decision is going to be based on the involvement of output. Which means what? On this Podcast we jump into a pool of reality, Adjusting to the surroundings of who you really are and not what you think you are. The funniest thing about getting older is how much clearer you become by way of forgiving the trips, stumbles and landslides you assumed were the end of all things good. We all hold the images of who we once were and how we dreamed so hard that your stomach ached every night because you weren't making it as far as you thought. July of 1994 I was visiting Santa Barbara, California. Hurting. Not because of the razor blade cuts on my arms but man my insides were locked in on being a total failure. I walked into a book store. Hit the isles looking for nothing and found something. The Artist Way from Julia Cameron. Through tremendous study and patience I was able to recognize how important it is to all of us to find the inner child and listen to him or her. You are never going to be called to what you can't do. We make choices. We decide that we are going to become. We push ourselves until we can't breathe. We scream out late late at night. Then one morning you wake up and realize the difference between what we want and what we are called to do are universes away from making a true connection. Let go. Stop chasing what's killing you from the inside out. Until you begin a journey of daily writing you'll never know who you really are. Only a dream away from another dream linked to another dream then another. Where is your reality? You're never gonna be called to what you can't do. Bosses put you in front of a can't do situation a billion times a year. You're convinced though that you can do it. Then something breaks. You won't get that time back. Put your energy in what you can do. Watch yourself grow forward. Document it in your daily writing. Teach it to someone tomorrow.
The title alone challenges me. I look at it and feel prepared to take it on. It says, "You can't achieve." Or at least as a reader that's how I interpret the headline. You'll never hear me say I wasn't called to be a hardcore award winning martial artist. I accepted the challenge and made my way through the levels of change and continue to grow with it spiritually. As I celebrate my 41st year in broadcasting I openly admit there were many times along the trail that I was extremely upset with my reasons for staying true to the industry. Lets be extremely honest here. Your job is no different from anyone else's. It always looks great from the outside but once you start working and creating within its avenues of success and failure your every decision is going to be based on the involvement of output. Which means what? On this Podcast we jump into a pool of reality, Adjusting to the surroundings of who you really are and not what you think you are. The funniest thing about getting older is how much clearer you become by way of forgiving the trips, stumbles and landslides you assumed were the end of all things good. We all hold the images of who we once were and how we dreamed so hard that your stomach ached every night because you weren't making it as far as you thought. July of 1994 I was visiting Santa Barbara, California. Hurting. Not because of the razor blade cuts on my arms but man my insides were locked in on being a total failure. I walked into a book store. Hit the isles looking for nothing and found something. The Artist Way from Julia Cameron. Through tremendous study and patience I was able to recognize how important it is to all of us to find the inner child and listen to him or her. You are never going to be called to what you can't do. We make choices. We decide that we are going to become. We push ourselves until we can't breathe. We scream out late late at night. Then one morning you wake up and realize the difference between what we want and what we are called to do are universes away from making a true connection. Let go. Stop chasing what's killing you from the inside out. Until you begin a journey of daily writing you'll never know who you really are. Only a dream away from another dream linked to another dream then another. Where is your reality? You're never gonna be called to what you can't do. Bosses put you in front of a can't do situation a billion times a year. You're convinced though that you can do it. Then something breaks. You won't get that time back. Put your energy in what you can do. Watch yourself grow forward. Document it in your daily writing. Teach it to someone tomorrow.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Strength Come From Interviewing The Interviewer
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To become great at interviewing people you've got to put yourself in situations where you too will be interviewed. Then go back and study how you acted and reacted to each question as it was delivered. It teaches the creative mind to be aware of not only what your guests are saying but how they are laying out their thoughts. Be a better listener because it leads to a greater connection. On this podcast we travel through my daily writing to October of 2016. I was about to have a conversation with NFL quarterback Tim Tebow. To prepare for the openness that I knew Tim would bring I put myself in front of others that asked me questions. His book was faith based and that meant as the interviewer I couldn't hold back on openly talking about a relationship with God. Although I show prepped the night before I needed to be ready for every direction we could possibly go without buckling. Religion is a very tough subject for some to talk about. I didn't want to come across as one of them. Therefore I trained by allowing others to publicly interview me before I stepped into a conversation with Tim. I not only documented but nearly four years later we are still learning from it. The podcast also includes that talk with Mr. Tebow.
To become great at interviewing people you've got to put yourself in situations where you too will be interviewed. Then go back and study how you acted and reacted to each question as it was delivered. It teaches the creative mind to be aware of not only what your guests are saying but how they are laying out their thoughts. Be a better listener because it leads to a greater connection. On this podcast we travel through my daily writing to October of 2016. I was about to have a conversation with NFL quarterback Tim Tebow. To prepare for the openness that I knew Tim would bring I put myself in front of others that asked me questions. His book was faith based and that meant as the interviewer I couldn't hold back on openly talking about a relationship with God. Although I show prepped the night before I needed to be ready for every direction we could possibly go without buckling. Religion is a very tough subject for some to talk about. I didn't want to come across as one of them. Therefore I trained by allowing others to publicly interview me before I stepped into a conversation with Tim. I not only documented but nearly four years later we are still learning from it. The podcast also includes that talk with Mr. Tebow.
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