Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base and
Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just
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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know,
Speaker 2: let's go. One of the.
Speaker 3: Things that I'm always trying to learn though what I'm
Speaker 3: doing coaching, is with creativity, specifically, how do we keep
Speaker 3: the flow going when we have moments that we're not
Speaker 3: really overthinking things and we want to stay in that moment.
Speaker 2: And I know you've had this moment before.
Speaker 3: Even if you're like, I'm not a creative person. I
Speaker 3: don't write poetry or screenplays, or I don't have canvases
Speaker 3: lying around in my studio.
Speaker 2: I don't have a studio, but you do. You have
Speaker 2: a studio. You're the studio the inside of you.
Speaker 3: It's the studio where God, who is the master artist creator,
Speaker 3: is making a masterpiece out of every day. So even
Speaker 3: how you approach your day can either be creative or
Speaker 3: robotic reactive. You know, I believe that, And I believe
Speaker 3: that sometimes when we label something as either you know, good, bad,
Speaker 3: many cases right, wrong, cool, corny, we miss that thin
Speaker 3: edge where something can become special. I was in a
Speaker 3: songwriting session recently and it was a complete joke until
Speaker 3: a moment when I said, hey, slow it down. And
Speaker 3: we were doing something real fast, almost like a jingle,
Speaker 3: like a joke, like a parody song, you know, not
Speaker 3: weird al parody, that's clever, just being stupid, and.
Speaker 2: I said, sometimes still down.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, I went from stupid silly
Speaker 3: to something that was real serious and heavy, and by
Speaker 3: the end of the two days of writing, that was
Speaker 3: the favorite song that we had created.
Speaker 2: Of a couple of the writers. So I wish I
Speaker 2: could tell you, and that song was, you know, reckless love.
Speaker 3: Well, we didn't write reckless love, and that song wasn't
Speaker 3: reckless love. It may not be a big song, but
Speaker 3: we definitely felt it was good. And it started with
Speaker 3: something that was really silly, right, And then at some
Speaker 3: moment we decided to slow it down, and I turned
Speaker 3: to one of my clubverers. I said, if we slow
Speaker 3: it down, this will turn into something. If we slow
Speaker 3: it down, this to turn into something. And I didn't
Speaker 3: mean to slow it down and start talking and overthinking.
Speaker 2: That's usually a bad way to create a creative flow.
Speaker 3: To slow down, and just to overthink and start taking
Speaker 3: things apart.
Speaker 2: You just better to stay in the moment.
Speaker 3: What I meant by slow it down was just slow
Speaker 3: down the tempo, like let's just bring it down and boom,
Speaker 3: settle into it, and all of.
Speaker 2: A sudden something unlocked.
Speaker 3: So I wonder how many times in our life we
Speaker 3: have been on the verge of something special but we
Speaker 3: told ourselves a story that it was silly, this is stupid,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I wonder how many.
Speaker 3: Times we've been in the middle of saying something to
Speaker 3: someone and we interrupted ourself with judgment.
Speaker 2: Here comes the psychological component. Okay, I can do it
Speaker 2: from the Bible too.
Speaker 3: Judge nothing before the appointed time. I could do it
Speaker 3: from the Bible too. I could do it from the
Speaker 3: Bible too. I could do it from the Bible from
Speaker 3: Jesus when the woman was brought to him and they
Speaker 3: were rushing to judge her, and he slowed the whole
Speaker 3: thing down and said hold on, and he did something special,
Speaker 3: and they were about to do something stupid.
Speaker 2: I could appreach it from the Bible.
Speaker 3: But I just want to come at it creatively psychologically
Speaker 3: and tell you that sometimes you're on the verge of
Speaker 3: something special. A moment with your child but it feels awkward,
Speaker 3: a moment with your wife, but it feels awkward, and
Speaker 3: you judge it and you go, oh, this is awkward.
Speaker 3: Oh they might think I'm I'm cheesy. Oh you know,
Speaker 3: I'm probably coming across like I.
Speaker 2: Know it all. Ah, this doesn't make any sense, so
Speaker 2: you stop. I want to encourage you for moments.
Speaker 3: Today where you push just past that point of awkward. Hey,
Speaker 3: if something's awkward because you're being obnoxious, stop, If something's
Speaker 3: awkward because you're making somebody uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Stop, If something's awkward because you don't know how to
Speaker 2: break all the contact.
Speaker 3: Stop, or if something silly and it needs to be serious.
Speaker 2: Don't make a joke out of everything.
Speaker 3: But when you're on the verge of something and it
Speaker 3: feels like, hey, I'm in this, be careful of that
Speaker 3: pull that pulls you out of those special moments where
Speaker 3: you're a tempted to judge it. When you judge it,
Speaker 3: you disrupt it. And when you disrupt it, you kill it.
Speaker 3: You kill creativity when you categorize. I had a friend
Speaker 3: early in our church, give me a piece of advice. Okay,
Speaker 3: I used to label myself as not creative. What I
Speaker 3: meant by that is pretty much I can't draw. Somewhere
Speaker 3: in my mind I got the thought that creative people
Speaker 3: could draw, probably in like six year old Steven said,
Speaker 3: because it was called art class and we drew. And
Speaker 3: I don't like to draw, and I'm not good at drawing,
Speaker 3: not technically classically.
Speaker 2: Sure somebody likes it.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks for the thanks for the support out there
Speaker 3: for all of you who who are very non judgmental.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I got this bad avite saying I'm not creative.
Speaker 2: I'm not creative. I'm not an artist. I'm not CREATI
Speaker 2: I'm not an artist. I'm not creative.
Speaker 3: And one of the guys who were starting to church
Speaker 3: with I turn one day and I said, I'm not creative,
Speaker 3: I'm not creative.
Speaker 2: And a few minutes later I shared.
Speaker 3: An idea I had and this is gonna sound corny,
Speaker 3: but I wanted to do a little teaching in the
Speaker 3: church where I was talking about momentum and I wanted
Speaker 3: to use the different I wish I could hold up
Speaker 3: my computer because I wanted to use the different keys
Speaker 3: on the computer shift return control option and do the
Speaker 3: teaching around those different buttons, and I was saying it
Speaker 3: to him almost like I know this is dumb, but
Speaker 3: you know how we do like I know this is stupid,
Speaker 3: but rolling my eyes at myself before I even got
Speaker 3: out of my mouth, basically prejection, telling him why he
Speaker 3: wouldn't like the idea I was about to present before
Speaker 3: he even had the chance to present it, saying his
Speaker 3: no for him so he couldn't reject me.
Speaker 2: And I told him my idea. He's like, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: And he was a designer that he did specialize in
Speaker 3: visual stuff. He looks back at me and goes, I
Speaker 3: love that. He goes, hey, and don't ever say I'm
Speaker 3: not creative.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: Now I remember, I'm the pastor, I'm the leader. I'm
Speaker 3: the boss in some ways, although he wasn't getting paid,
Speaker 3: but I was the boss.
Speaker 2: And he'd telling me what to do. So first it
Speaker 2: hit me, don't tell me what to say.
Speaker 3: But then I'm like, oh thanks. I kept that with me.
Speaker 3: I kept that with me. He planted a seed in me,
Speaker 3: like God told Jeremi, I do not say I'm only
Speaker 3: a youth.
Speaker 2: He said, don't say I'm not creative. You should never
Speaker 2: say that again.
Speaker 3: You're very creative, and I hear my wife say that timetimes,
Speaker 3: I'm not creative like you, Yes you are. Did you
Speaker 3: see the way that you just made our whole family
Speaker 3: feel with that birthday party that you did?
Speaker 2: Did you see the way you just made Valentine's Day feel?
Speaker 3: Specially you put out these little mailboxes and made us
Speaker 3: write all notes to each other. And the boys acted
Speaker 3: like they didn't want to do it, but they'll never
Speaker 3: forget it.
Speaker 2: You made something really special here.
Speaker 3: I don't like the term you made a memory because
Speaker 3: people make their own memory out of events. We don't
Speaker 3: get to make someone else's memory. But you created space
Speaker 3: for memories to be made. You're very creative, so don't
Speaker 3: say I'm not creative. It's just what are you creating?
Speaker 3: And how do you psychology term constrict your creativity by
Speaker 3: rushing to judge it while it's still in process. I
Speaker 3: want you to think about that today. I'm going to
Speaker 3: carry that with me today as I move into this
Speaker 3: songwriting appointment is to not judge something before it has
Speaker 3: the chance to be special, give it space to be special.
Speaker 3: Do that by dismissing the critic. One of my friends
Speaker 3: calls that the security guard who won't let something through
Speaker 3: because oh this is so stupid. But I think you'd
Speaker 3: be surprised how many times something is on the edge
Speaker 3: of special if you don't interrupt it with the judgment,
Speaker 3: all right, if you just let it unfold, Try it
Speaker 3: out today. Send in the awkward moments a little longer,
Speaker 3: Sit with the awkward moments with yourself a little longer,
Speaker 3: press through conversationally, breathe, See what's there on the other
Speaker 3: side of what feels silly. It might be something special.
Speaker 3: That's the title. It might be something special.
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