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Vocal De Frag Episode 222 Yes Answer The Questions Today Not Tomorrow · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Hey, do me a favor.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget about Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. You can find an entire
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  Speaker 1: podcast network waiting for your exploration. One of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: shows is Forest Stories. We all have stories of walking
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  Speaker 1: into a park, around a city block, into a mall,
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  Speaker 1: those little places where you can go to explore. And then,
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  Speaker 1: do you write about it? What did you learn? How
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  Speaker 1: are you going to grow from it? Forest Stories, only
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  Speaker 1: on Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy that exploration. Hey, it's Arrow, and
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  Speaker 1: this is Vocal Defrag. Vocal Defragging is taking the time
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  Speaker 1: to ask yourself the questions and then question the answers.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it in a notebook.
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  Speaker 2: I do it. I've been doing it since November of 2017.
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  Speaker 2: Are you afraid of people finding out what you're thinking?
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  Speaker 2: There's a bigger chance that you're already releasing what you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking on social media or you're getting in groups of
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  Speaker 2: people at work, maybe in the neighborhood, at home. And
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  Speaker 2: people pretty much know what you're already thinking. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why people get all kind of itchy in
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  Speaker 2: the soul when it comes to, hey man, did you
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  Speaker 2: write that down? Oh, hell no. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: write anything down. I don't want anybody to read it.
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: You're saying it anyway. This is Vocal Defragging. The focus
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  Speaker 2: today is if somebody on social media were to reach
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  Speaker 2: out to you and say, we want to know your legacy.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to give you five questions and And we
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  Speaker 2: want you to answer these questions and please do it truthfully.
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  Speaker 2: Would you do something like that? Would you open up
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  Speaker 2: your mind, body, and soul, especially your heart, and allow
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  Speaker 2: somebody to ask you just five questions? Now, these are
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  Speaker 2: five questions that are based on your past and where
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  Speaker 2: you're growing into the future. Or are we so locked
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  Speaker 2: in on this moment of now that we have nothing
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  Speaker 2: better to think about, which I'm going to call bull
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  Speaker 2: crap on right now, because that is absolutely not the truth.
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  Speaker 2: We are spending so much time in our past that
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  Speaker 2: we have totally forgotten that the future does exist. So,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a personal observation. Until you go walking into
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  Speaker 2: a Starbucks or you find yourself in a position of
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  Speaker 2: decision-making where you go, well, you know, five or 10
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  Speaker 2: years ago, I may have jumped all over this, but today,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm a little bit wiser and I
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  Speaker 2: have less money in the bank. So the question is,
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  Speaker 2: is that if somebody... were to give you five questions.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say it's your kids. Let's say it's somebody in
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood because they're doing some sort of gathering of
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  Speaker 2: everybody who has lived in this collection of people who
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  Speaker 2: are living, breathing, and bringing life to an area. How
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  Speaker 2: would you answer such questions? Would you do it truthfully?
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  Speaker 2: Or would you put a little bit of fantasy inside
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  Speaker 2: that storyline? Now, personally, just to let you in that
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  Speaker 2: it has happened to me, and I did go with
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  Speaker 2: honesty and And that's one of the things, as people
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  Speaker 2: react to this article that was written about me, that
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  Speaker 2: they're going, he always tells you the way it is.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a good place to be? Because I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to jump into a pair of shoes that resemble
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  Speaker 2: that of a curmudgeon. And so is that why people
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  Speaker 2: really kind of shy away from what is it that
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  Speaker 2: you've experienced? What is it that you would like to see?
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  Speaker 2: How have you participated with the future? What is it
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  Speaker 2: that you're bringing to your family, your neighborhood, your community?
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  Speaker 2: What is it about you that gives you a plan
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  Speaker 2: and a purpose? I'm not saying that you have to
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  Speaker 2: be Johnny Depp, or you have to be George Clooney,
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  Speaker 2: Renee Zellweger, or some superstar that's on board a spaceship
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  Speaker 2: that's trying their darndest to get to Mars, but every
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  Speaker 2: bit of technology is getting in the way. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that. We're talking about you. Just five questions. about
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  Speaker 2: your presence in this place of now. How did you
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  Speaker 2: get here and where do you think that you're growing?
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  Speaker 2: What is your vision? People will always talk about the
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  Speaker 2: five-year and the 10-year plan. Screw that crap. What are
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  Speaker 2: you doing next week? What are you doing in seven hours?
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  Speaker 2: That's my interest because that's a future that has the
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  Speaker 2: ability to change people's lives. Your immediate decision is Not
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  Speaker 2: the hemming and the hawing that my father always talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Five questions. Why not ask yourself that? Put it in
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  Speaker 2: the book. Come back to it a different day. And
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you, everything's changed. That's what's fascinating about being
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  Speaker 2: a daily journal writer since July of 1994. Do I
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  Speaker 2: ever go back to those days? I did once or twice.
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  Speaker 2: And I found that my writing style was more about
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  Speaker 2: telling stories... but it didn't include me. Now, that sounds
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  Speaker 2: kind of selfish, right? But it's not. My grandparents gave
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  Speaker 2: me nothing. My parents gave me nothing. I'm basing my
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  Speaker 2: entire future on lessons that they taught. But if you
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  Speaker 2: sit down and talk to the eight kids in my family,
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  Speaker 2: we're all going to give you a different interpretation. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure that's the way it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Five questions.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't want to answer your kids, or somebody
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  Speaker 2: at work, or a social media connection, then answer yourself.
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  Speaker 2: How did you get here? What have you participated with?
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  Speaker 2: What do you foresee? It's a beautiful place to walk
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  Speaker 2: because you get to know you. When you stare at
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  Speaker 2: those eyes inside that mirror, you kind of giggle.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, you.
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  Speaker 2: How are you? Hey, thanks for showing up today. Nah,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to say that. Yeah, I do. Really,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for showing up. Ask yourself the questions and question
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  Speaker 2: the answers. It's called vocal defragging.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Errol.