Oh No I Can't Write

Listen to "Oh No I Can't Write" on Spreaker. I speak so openly about being a daily writer. Only because I believe I've been trained. Being a student of Julia Cameron since July 1994 our crazy habits as creative minds open paths that can't stay hidden, we want to push the discoveries forward. I just wish more creative people were transparent not with their victories but their valleys. I'm not looking to jump in the hole with you but learning how you're going to take your emotional battles out of that season of unlit chance and turn it into a chapter or two about reevaluating the presence of why you are creative. We've gotten away with calling creative people introverts. Lets end that. You can be inside all you want but you need to know there are a lot of people on the outside that need to learn from your experiences. I had a brilliant conversation with Oscar winner Tatum O'Neil yesterday on what it's like to be an open spirit of art. It was if we were two friends sitting at Starbucks. As creative minds we should never put a trophy above our reasons to share. Nothing should stand in the way of your art growing in the heart of another imagination. Maybe the reason why you stepped into the darkness is because your creative energy can't survive on its own and it needs to be taught. Maybe your bad days are fed by a lack of wanting to share what gave you personal fame. I get it! You're great at what you do. Let us study your struggles. Creative people are always in a state of mind of building paths. So willing to learn. Open your door and stop hiding. Or sit in a puddle of a dream that could've been. But you chose to go at it alone.

Be Ready?

Listen to "Be Ready" on Spreaker. A lot of people live by the motto, "I have to be ready so I don't have to get ready." That's pretty powerful. It's empowering to those that put their noses to the ground and grind. Recently a family member used the motto on me in the opposite direction. She came to me with the weight of it being a negative. Which opened my eyes to better under the purpose and plan of her path. Let's break it down. I have to be ready. Sounds simple. We all have to be ready for something. Look around you. Many are ready to fail, lose money, not heal from a winter's cold. We choose to be ready for the next dark cloud with huge amounts of thunder. Therefore if we are ready we don't have to get ready when the bad luck or boss arrives at the front door. Know your moment. Control the present by being present. I daily write not to live in yesterdays memory. I write because it's what I feel in the now. When and if I return in the days down the lane the reader won't be living in my past for the thought will hit him or her in their present place. If you have to be ready for something so you don't have to get ready, lift your visions and decisions to the multiple layers of victory.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 102

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 102" on Spreaker. This is a subject that can easily be taken and or read wrong. Open your heart and face the base of the mountain and realize that no day goes by that we aren't handed some sort of rejection. I'm still not convinced that the human frame was designed to receive such an emotional change on a roller coaster of events. We all act differently. I study the art of a sales person who faces rejection hundreds of times a week. I watch and try to become stronger only because I don't understand how a sales rep makes their way through a day after being rejected. Has it made me stronger? No. Being a creative person is an extremely difficult place to stand because I've yet to meet the imagination that doesn't bring forth their art to be accepted not rejected. While writing in the forest I did bring up a question anyone would invite to the surface of paper. When the church sends you a rejection letter for employment do we have the open space to wonder where God is? If all that we are and grow toward is in his name why does the business of church feel your gift doesn't fit into their purpose and plan. That's the answer right there. Their purpose and plan. God doesn't take his eye off his needs and requires you to be exactly where you stand. God isn't a business but a loving and forgiving provider. Being outside the church serving Christ is far greater more impacting then sitting in a chair listening to someone preach. God needs teachers. Listen closer to the calling and realize that there is no reason to believe your season needs more added weight. Serving a church is a beautiful gift but working at a church is a job. Understand the difference. Our dogs greet us at the door with tremendous joy. It's a feeling of acceptance. It's unconditional love. When you walk into your church it should be the same. Don't let rejection serve you a plate of silence.

The Availability Of Accountability

Listen to "The Availability Of Accountability" on Spreaker. Growing through the ranks of martial arts toward that second degree black belt I endlessly heard my Sabunim speak of accountability. I always held myself accountable for what it was I'd accomplish during each moment shared. One problem... Such a word fails to take shape inside the ranks of a modern day growing period. Accountability is what you delegate. It's now on the shoulders of a different person and if it should fail, it's not your problem. How do you begin to respect accountability? I believe it starts with actuality. Knowing where you presently stand in a moment designed by the elements of all things that got you here. Heavy stuff right? Openly I admit that I'm deeply bothered by the accountability or lack of from others. The line I'm endlessly delivered is, "Well I didn't know you'd be interested." That's the actuality of assumption. Have we stopped investing in possibility or are we just satisfied with whatever happens? It's too easy to hit Amazon.com and get the product. Look at how Walmart is trying to catch up. Talk about a company that's watching everything I write. I could type something on social media about bird poop and Walmart will send me an email telling me about it being on sale and it can be delivered in two days. Isn't it funny how the nation is worried about how the Russians affected our elections but don't care that Walmart and Amazon have a bigger consumer connection and correction? The availability of accountability. In this particular story I use the air that we breathe as a test of how we think. If what is going into our lungs truly is a gift from that guy in a far away place, what are we doing with it that would best serve him?

Plan And Purpose

Listen to "Plan And Purpose" on Spreaker. I often wonder what the world would be like if we were all disciplined to daily write. Not in the middle or the end of the day but rather the opening moments after the alarm has shouted at you to wake up. You can't deny it. There are voices in your head and heart. All of that energy swirling around and somehow it has to become a day of victory. Becoming a daily writer is a beautiful first step in generating a relationship with the self you're forced to carry. I've met many who started but left the connection because of the time required to jot down what they instantly labeled nothing. That's because it's completely normal to think every morning the spirit of Christ is going to bring to light and life incredible moments of oh wow! Not true. With time you'll learn to use the energy around you to seize such great feelings but the only thing required is just showing up. Trusting that what you write is nothing more than collecting the sources of energy that endlessly move through you. What do you write about? I never know. I have more fun just word doodling which somehow turns into three to five pages. As for time spent trying to spit up thoughts? I give myself no more than 25 minutes. That's it! Put the books away. Think of writing as meditation or prayer. Have that place where you know you're safe. I've talked with writers who quit because they begin to fear someone will read what's been laid out on paper. It took me three years to get over the idea that I had to hide it. My heart finally opened when I realized if you truly want to know me read the writing. Every journal is readily available for open discussion. It's called communication.

What is Wisdom

Listen to "What Is Wisdom" on Spreaker. Because I'm a daily writer it's a blessed morning to page through where the footprints once led. It's not to sift through the multiple layers of a creative mind but rather to be present with the student I proclaim to be each new sunrise. I came across a short paragraph that was written on April 29, 2016. That was almost two years ago! Yet what we write truly doesn't come with a use this by such and such date. The writer questioned his moment. He wanted to know what wisdom is. What does it look like? Is it a vision and or experience? How do you move a mountain without spoiling the soil? I still don't believe God has put me in the right pair of shoes to touch any of those questions. But it won't stop me from asking even more. We are a generation of assuming text messengers that find knowledge to be worthless until we ask Google to lend a helping hand. Before every lecture I'm blessed to share I calmly explain to every student present, "We must begin each day with three questions." We don't ask questions any more unless the answer benefits our situation. We have become a nation of tellers. We tell people what to do but not how to do it. When you ask questions it slows down the process of success. More bosses and coworkers have rolled their eyes in front of me because I just want to know. Recently I was told by a co-creator that he was questioned about what I do as a creative mind, "Anyone can do what Arroe does right?" I love moments like this! It opens the door for there to be a moment of wisdom growing forward.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 101

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 101" on Spreaker. I sat in the forest with my newly adopted Pointer. She was on a leash. I mean those are the rules right? As a writer I took note of her path and where it wouldn't grow only to learn that each of us are on leashes as well. What are your dreams and what's keeping you from achieving your greater success? It's funny how we all have incredible excuses as to why we are in the moments we live while others find mind blowing journeys beyond our nearest reach. Why is that? When we don't locate the instant answer we are easily turned off by the presence of someone that could teach us how to make the path more of a paved highway toward bigger moments. It's too easy to quit. It's too easy to let others be in their glory. I'm shocked they don't charge a fee to watch how they are locating more money, more happiness and more whatever. Then again we don't know of the leashes they're on or will soon face. What we see is never the true story. We observe through eyes of assumption. Just because isn't the answer. I'm not going to say we are lazy in our reasons for not asking questions. You get to a point where the leashes that we wear keep us from stepping closer to the idea we can become everything we feel. That leash looks horrible around our necks. But what if it could stretch? It will when you begin to understand where you are in this moment. The leash that keeps you from growing is actually teaching you to learn from the moment. Heal in the moment. Be accepting of it's rightful place. But that's not who we are in 2018. We're either living in a past we can't change or a future that we can't design. The leash has you here. Be present. Be here. Trust me it's a moment you have the power to control.