Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Man,
it's been a while, you've been okay. I've been on tour,
a lot of live performances, and then I went camping
where I pickleballed for the very first time. Have you
done that game yet? Oh? My god? They call it
the greatest game ever because it uses less energy. I
must have been playing the wrong game because I used
a lot of energy playing pickleball. Hey, it's arrow. This
is the choice. This is what I was writing while
the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.
Getting back to a normal lifestyle. I still have two
more performances to do. I've got camping trips to do.
Getting back to a normal lifestyle means what in this
Google calendar world that we live. We can't always be
grown kids running about playing out life like we have
no direction. My wife Lee has spent the past few
years speaking of being more busy in retirement than we
were doing a corporate job, to which I agree, calling
it the power of choice. We set up our lives
to be available only during this time. It's filled to
the brim and so is everything around it. By choice.
And I'm not the only one doing this. I have
sat down and had more conversations with people that are
doing things like I played out life in my thirties. See.
I've always believed that your twenties are living out the
teen years that you wanted to live, and your thirties
are cleaning up the messes that you did in your twenties.
So here we are, we're running wild like kids again,
and yet we have to stop to clean up the messes.
It is the lifestyle. So many lit hours wasted away
by a need to sleep. That's how my parents live
their life. They wouldn't get up until eleven twelve o'clock.
And I can't put myself in a position like that.
I saw something yesterday that best describes life. The gas pump.
When you're watching those numbers go tintin, tintin, tintin, tintin, tink,
and you're throwing a bunch of fuel into your car
and your birth year comes up minus nineteen sixty two,
Suddenly those numbers on the gas pump were at two
thousand twenty three or twenty dollars and twenty three cents,
and I went, whoa, whoa. That only took seconds to
get from sixty two to twenty twenty three. That's how
my life is moving. It is moving like a gas pump.
That's been my life that fast and at what cost.
I do believe in all things that we do, we
pay for it. But how are you paying for what
you've done in the beautiful years that you've been blessed with?
Do you do a lifestyle like my wife and I
are doing the power of choice? Or are you just
going along because this is what everybody does. I'm just
playing along with the game until the game says you
ran out of money on the monopoly board. You gotta go.
I mean, you have nothing, not even a one dollar bill,
you gotta go getting back to a normal lifestyle. What
is your normal? I'm Eryl and that's what I was
writing while the sun was waking up on a brilliant
new day.