November 3, 2025 • 7 mins
At any age, we are facing a huge number of people that are dropping the corporate lifestyle to take up space in their own heart and way. What's required to pull this off? It's not all about the money. There's a lot of mental decisions and agreements with the person you are that has to be worked out or you're going back in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, So for all these years have said, hey, if
you're looking for a great podcast, just google me Arrowcollins,
and then all of a sudden you find yourself on
a streaming platform and can't figure out where anything is.
He said he was talking to this person. But okay,
so what I've done is I've centralized it. Now Erro
dot net, Arie dot net, all seventeen of my podcasts
are up there for you to enjoy. Stream thinking it's
(00:22):
learning how to trust what is in your present place
of all things right now. To get there is going
to require some practice. This is what I do every
single day, one sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write
about whatever is moving through your presence of all things
right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking it sharpens
(00:43):
your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as
an activator. It's learning how to trust everything that is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
February first, twenty twenty five. I'm not the only one
that sees their Google calendar and can't figure out how
the hell am I going to catch up here. My neighbor, Sergio,
(01:07):
recently retired from his job of multiple years. He said
his honeydew list just got too large, and he's got
to put his energy into shaping the next level of
his life. But is that really the answer. I mean,
I'm a people person. I find amazing warmth in my
soul getting to know each and every guest who stops
inside our grocery store. Yeah, it's a job I picked
(01:29):
up because during the COVID lockdown, it gave me serious
cabin fever. So I challenged myself to be one with
the community. But like Sergio, my honeydew list is off
the charts. I really have too much on my plate.
But what am I willing to sacrifice in order to
(01:50):
physically and mentally stop? And what I mean by stop
is to walk away from the corporate world of business
to put me ahead of their decisions. It's a tough choice.
And you know what. You can go on to chat, GPT,
you can Google, you can go anywhere and search up
(02:12):
these questions. And the thing is it's all based on
personal experiences and what you can handle and what you
can handle. And I think on a personal level, the
one thing that I don't think I could handle is
the lack of people in my lives. And here's The
reason why this is just me being transparent with you
as you yourself grow forward. Because retirement is happening at
(02:33):
forty and even fifty years old. You're not going to
get the full benefits, but you can still retire at
those ages and you can find a lot of love
in life. But my challenge has been is that I
spent thirty six years of radio. This is before podcasting,
doing terrestrial radio. Sure I had my personal appearances, Sure
I went out with clients, I did all these different things,
(02:55):
but that was for the business. What was I doing
for myself as a people person or a self declared
people person. I was sitting inside a radio station control
room in visioning people. I was relying on their research
of who the listener is and picturing in my mind
who she or he was, and then talking with them
(03:19):
without having a physical conversation. And then in twenty twenty
September of that year, for some stink and reason, I
felt a need a calling to be in front of real,
authentic people. And my wife jokingly said, go get a
job at a grocery store, or go get something at
Low's or home depot, and I chose as a radio stunt.
(03:39):
As a podcast stunt to go see if I could
land a job at a grocery store. The first one
turned me down because I didn't agree with the hours
that they wanted to give me. So I thought was,
She's I don't want to be defeated in this. I
like to win as what I like to do. What
is it going to take for me a broadcaster of
all of these years, with these experiences that I've held
(03:59):
inside my hands, not only talking to people of fame,
but working working inside a glorious radio station where it
is supposed to be all about the community. And there
I was, and I took the job, but I wasn't
happy about it. When I got the job, I was
very angry with myself because now that radio joke or
(04:19):
that prank for a podcast was my reality. And I
had a shirt to prove it. And that shirt had
nothing to do with rock stars or movies. It was
their shirt and I had to wear it. You know.
The funniest thing about that was that it was too small.
It really was too small, and it was like, Okay,
if I don't exchange it, I don't have to come
(04:40):
work there, right You see how we think that's the
way we are. And so when I talked to my
department head and I said, well, the shirt's too small.
I really I'm not really fit to be working with
you guys. Get it fit. It was too small. That
wasn't a good answer to give to the department head
because she says, well, that's okay, we'll just give you
a larger shirt. Oh God, but we are in that
(05:05):
age where those that are fitting inside the elder generation.
And I don't like using that word, but you might
as well accept it because we are all growing in
that direction. And it's like, when do you stop? When
do you hang up this desire to consistently be because
one of the things that being of an older generation,
(05:28):
it is completely one hundred percent natural to become more
of an introvert, to become more of somebody who doesn't
need the corporate acceptance that pat on the back at
a boy, Oh you want to be employee the year. Oh,
let's see what you've done for the year. Don't need that.
We don't need that kind of thing anymore, nor do
we need to grow within the ranks of a company
(05:49):
unless your ego has got to be fed that situation.
But Sergio felt it in his heart that it was
time to move on, to break free of his businesses
that he was so in involved in, whereas I'm currently
in a position where it's like, well, I'm going to
take the route of ace freely of kiss. When he
was asked, what do you see behind you in what
(06:10):
you've done? And in that ace freely way, he kind
of laughed about it and said, it's pretty weird. And
I have to agree with that in all things that
I have done, and you can google it, it's all
just pretty weird. Now, how do you let it go?
I'm serious about that. How do you let it go?
Because everybody has their own personal experience, and no matter
(06:32):
what you've studied inside google pages and or a book,
your next level of life means what to you and
what are you willing to sacrifice. I have an entire
house here that needs more than a couple of hours
a day to basically just tip it upside down and
throw everything away. And the reason why is because my
(06:53):
wife and I do not want to dump this onto
our daughter, who's going to have to go through this
house and throw away a bunch of old people stuff.
It's not fair to her. So therefore that takes time
required time, and so learning how to work one on
one with a Google calendar. This is what I'm inviting
you to do, is to really put focus on what
your expectations are for the day. Get it on that
(07:16):
Google calendar, share it with your spouse or whoever you're
living with, and you stick to it. For instance, like
my thing today is is that I've got to go
work out. Is it on the Google calendar? Yes? I've
got to go get a flu shot? Is it on
the Google calendar? Yes? Well, what about working on the
awning on the RV. Yes, it's on the Google calendar.
If you put it on your calendar, your honeydew list
(07:38):
is now physical, it's authentic. But if it's up here
in your noggin, oh come on, you know the way
it is, and that is well, I'll just do it tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah,
that doesn't work either. I'm marrow And that's stream thinking
Okay, So for all these years have said, hey, if
you're looking for a great podcast, just google me Arrowcollins,
and then all of a sudden you find yourself on
a streaming platform and can't figure out where anything is.
He said he was talking to this person. But okay,
so what I've done is I've centralized it. Now Erro
dot net, Arie dot net, all seventeen of my podcasts
are up there for you to enjoy. Stream thinking it's
(00:22):
learning how to trust what is in your present place
of all things right now. To get there is going
to require some practice. This is what I do every
single day, one sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write
about whatever is moving through your presence of all things
right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking it sharpens
(00:43):
your skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as
an activator. It's learning how to trust everything that is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
February first, twenty twenty five. I'm not the only one
that sees their Google calendar and can't figure out how
the hell am I going to catch up here. My neighbor, Sergio,
(01:07):
recently retired from his job of multiple years. He said
his honeydew list just got too large, and he's got
to put his energy into shaping the next level of
his life. But is that really the answer. I mean,
I'm a people person. I find amazing warmth in my
soul getting to know each and every guest who stops
inside our grocery store. Yeah, it's a job I picked
(01:29):
up because during the COVID lockdown, it gave me serious
cabin fever. So I challenged myself to be one with
the community. But like Sergio, my honeydew list is off
the charts. I really have too much on my plate.
But what am I willing to sacrifice in order to
(01:50):
physically and mentally stop? And what I mean by stop
is to walk away from the corporate world of business
to put me ahead of their decisions. It's a tough choice.
And you know what. You can go on to chat, GPT,
you can Google, you can go anywhere and search up
(02:12):
these questions. And the thing is it's all based on
personal experiences and what you can handle and what you
can handle. And I think on a personal level, the
one thing that I don't think I could handle is
the lack of people in my lives. And here's The
reason why this is just me being transparent with you
as you yourself grow forward. Because retirement is happening at
(02:33):
forty and even fifty years old. You're not going to
get the full benefits, but you can still retire at
those ages and you can find a lot of love
in life. But my challenge has been is that I
spent thirty six years of radio. This is before podcasting,
doing terrestrial radio. Sure I had my personal appearances, Sure
I went out with clients, I did all these different things,
(02:55):
but that was for the business. What was I doing
for myself as a people person or a self declared
people person. I was sitting inside a radio station control
room in visioning people. I was relying on their research
of who the listener is and picturing in my mind
who she or he was, and then talking with them
(03:19):
without having a physical conversation. And then in twenty twenty
September of that year, for some stink and reason, I
felt a need a calling to be in front of real,
authentic people. And my wife jokingly said, go get a
job at a grocery store, or go get something at
Low's or home depot, and I chose as a radio stunt.
(03:39):
As a podcast stunt to go see if I could
land a job at a grocery store. The first one
turned me down because I didn't agree with the hours
that they wanted to give me. So I thought was,
She's I don't want to be defeated in this. I
like to win as what I like to do. What
is it going to take for me a broadcaster of
all of these years, with these experiences that I've held
(03:59):
inside my hands, not only talking to people of fame,
but working working inside a glorious radio station where it
is supposed to be all about the community. And there
I was, and I took the job, but I wasn't
happy about it. When I got the job, I was
very angry with myself because now that radio joke or
(04:19):
that prank for a podcast was my reality. And I
had a shirt to prove it. And that shirt had
nothing to do with rock stars or movies. It was
their shirt and I had to wear it. You know.
The funniest thing about that was that it was too small.
It really was too small, and it was like, Okay,
if I don't exchange it, I don't have to come
(04:40):
work there, right You see how we think that's the
way we are. And so when I talked to my
department head and I said, well, the shirt's too small.
I really I'm not really fit to be working with
you guys. Get it fit. It was too small. That
wasn't a good answer to give to the department head
because she says, well, that's okay, we'll just give you
a larger shirt. Oh God, but we are in that
(05:05):
age where those that are fitting inside the elder generation.
And I don't like using that word, but you might
as well accept it because we are all growing in
that direction. And it's like, when do you stop? When
do you hang up this desire to consistently be because
one of the things that being of an older generation,
(05:28):
it is completely one hundred percent natural to become more
of an introvert, to become more of somebody who doesn't
need the corporate acceptance that pat on the back at
a boy, Oh you want to be employee the year. Oh,
let's see what you've done for the year. Don't need that.
We don't need that kind of thing anymore, nor do
we need to grow within the ranks of a company
(05:49):
unless your ego has got to be fed that situation.
But Sergio felt it in his heart that it was
time to move on, to break free of his businesses
that he was so in involved in, whereas I'm currently
in a position where it's like, well, I'm going to
take the route of ace freely of kiss. When he
was asked, what do you see behind you in what
(06:10):
you've done? And in that ace freely way, he kind
of laughed about it and said, it's pretty weird. And
I have to agree with that in all things that
I have done, and you can google it, it's all
just pretty weird. Now, how do you let it go?
I'm serious about that. How do you let it go?
Because everybody has their own personal experience, and no matter
(06:32):
what you've studied inside google pages and or a book,
your next level of life means what to you and
what are you willing to sacrifice. I have an entire
house here that needs more than a couple of hours
a day to basically just tip it upside down and
throw everything away. And the reason why is because my
(06:53):
wife and I do not want to dump this onto
our daughter, who's going to have to go through this
house and throw away a bunch of old people stuff.
It's not fair to her. So therefore that takes time
required time, and so learning how to work one on
one with a Google calendar. This is what I'm inviting
you to do, is to really put focus on what
your expectations are for the day. Get it on that
(07:16):
Google calendar, share it with your spouse or whoever you're
living with, and you stick to it. For instance, like
my thing today is is that I've got to go
work out. Is it on the Google calendar? Yes? I've
got to go get a flu shot? Is it on
the Google calendar? Yes? Well, what about working on the
awning on the RV. Yes, it's on the Google calendar.
If you put it on your calendar, your honeydew list
(07:38):
is now physical, it's authentic. But if it's up here
in your noggin, oh come on, you know the way
it is, and that is well, I'll just do it tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah,
that doesn't work either. I'm marrow And that's stream thinking
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