Stream Thinking It's Not What You Think It's Actually Lesser Than

Just because I've been a daily writer doesn't guarantee that everything that's landed on the page is exactly how things went down. As humans, we are born to keep rewriting the story. Which makes me wonder how much life have you missed trying to share the tale of your two cities?

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Enjoy your exploration. Stream thinking it's learning how to trust
what is in your present place of right now, and
to get there requires some practice. Here's what I do
every single day. It's just one sheet of paper ten
minutes write about whatever is moving through your presence of

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right now. Doesn't have to be a certain subject, just right,
and there's absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your
skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.
It's learning how to trust everything that is in your
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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March fifteenth, twenty twenty five. Now. Being a daily writer
for thirty one years, it hasn't been what most people assume.
Keeping a daily journal is all about. Like meditation, it
takes time to get into the physical presence of why
writing daily is so valuable and so important. I still
have so many things inside the possession of each and

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every one of these books. I mean, thoughts were dropped
in there decades ago, and they still sit there looking
for the time to be seen as well as heard.
The stories have been shared so that someone else doesn't
have to do it. We always complain about how life
is moving too quickly. Well, my thirty one years of
daily writing holds onto life. Yet to my shock, it's

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not as many journals as you would think, which opens
up your eyes as to how much you might have
missed being the daily writer or not being the daily writer,
because how many times has a thought been inside your
moment of now and by the time you get to
a place where you can write it down or put
it inside your digital device, it's gone. But yet, for

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that moment, not even thirty five forty seconds ago, it
sounded like the greatest thing that you've ever come across,
and you're about ready to break through to be seen
as well as heard. But because you didn't put it
on paper in that moment of now, boom, it's gone.
So that's what I mean about stream thinking. You've got
to be able to pick up that digital device no

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matter where you are and just talk it in there
and then come back to it when it's time to
bring more life to the pages as well as to
the storyline that which you are preserving. And it doesn't
mean that you have to keep everything. I just do.
In fact, Julia Cameron's the artist way, I believe in
the opening pages, she states you can throw it away,
but the moment that you throw stuff like this away,

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it's gone. Everything else from that point for will be
based on the interpretation of what you assume took place.
And even though that you lived it in your moment
of now, I still don't go one hundred percent behind
that you believe that that took place, because what is
your proof? Well, my memory right. No, we rewrite a story,

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and that part of our creative process does not sit
there and say, well, you know, I'm going to go
exactly to the t as to what's going on. No,
it's not. It's going to rewrite the story because that's
how we are designed as people. That's how humans deal
with the everyday world. I'm Meryl, and that's stream thinking.