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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. Man,

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it's been a while, you've been okay. I've been on tour,

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a lot of live performances, and then I went camping

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where I pickleballed for the very first time. Have you

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done that game yet? Oh? My god? They call it

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the greatest game ever because it uses less energy. I

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must have been playing the wrong game because I used

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a lot of energy playing pickleball. Hey, it's arrow. This

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is the choice. This is what I was writing while

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the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.

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Getting back to a normal lifestyle. I still have two

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more performances to do. I've got camping trips to do.

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Getting back to a normal lifestyle means what in this

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Google calendar world that we live. We can't always be

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grown kids running about playing out life like we have

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no direction. My wife Lee has spent the past few

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years speaking of being more busy in retirement than we

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were doing a corporate job, to which I agree, calling

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it the power of choice. We set up our lives

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to be available only during this time. It's filled to

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the brim and so is everything around it. By choice.

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And I'm not the only one doing this. I have

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sat down and had more conversations with people that are

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doing things like I played out life in my thirties. See.

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I've always believed that your twenties are living out the

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teen years that you wanted to live, and your thirties

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are cleaning up the messes that you did in your twenties.

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So here we are, we're running wild like kids again,

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and yet we have to stop to clean up the messes.

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It is the lifestyle. So many lit hours wasted away

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by a need to sleep. That's how my parents live

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their life. They wouldn't get up until eleven twelve o'clock.

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And I can't put myself in a position like that.

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I saw something yesterday that best describes life. The gas pump.

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When you're watching those numbers go tintin, tintin, tintin, tintin, tink,

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and you're throwing a bunch of fuel into your car

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and your birth year comes up minus nineteen sixty two,

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Suddenly those numbers on the gas pump were at two

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thousand twenty three or twenty dollars and twenty three cents,

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and I went, whoa, whoa. That only took seconds to

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get from sixty two to twenty twenty three. That's how

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my life is moving. It is moving like a gas pump.

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That's been my life that fast and at what cost.

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I do believe in all things that we do, we

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pay for it. But how are you paying for what

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you've done in the beautiful years that you've been blessed with?

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Do you do a lifestyle like my wife and I

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are doing the power of choice? Or are you just

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going along because this is what everybody does. I'm just

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playing along with the game until the game says you

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ran out of money on the monopoly board. You gotta go.

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I mean, you have nothing, not even a one dollar bill,

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you gotta go getting back to a normal lifestyle. What

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is your normal? I'm Eryl and that's what I was

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writing while the sun was waking up on a brilliant

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new day.