Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in your present,
your place of right now now. To get there requires practice.
It's just one sheet of paper. Every day, just ten minutes,
write about whatever is moving through your moment of what
is right now, using absolutely no judgment. You see, stream
thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is
right now. This is stream thinking. Today. We're reading from
March twenty fifth, twenty twenty three. I've got a few
moments to write, just a few moments. The day's expectations
are colliding on my Google calendar, schedules are being rewritten.
Workplace bosses are frowning. Hey, you knew what I was
when you pick me up. Just be glad that you're
not living inside my shoes. It takes amazing amounts of
conditioning mental stability as well as spiritual questioning. There's a
lot to be done, and in these tiny days that
lead into months, it's never enough of course, I get
disappointed when I see other people having a great time
on their social media. What's it like to throw yourself
into a moment of hey, I've let go trust me,
these people I know look to be having fun. You
can't turn off the heart and thought process, the wonder
of what it would be like if I could just
turn it off. I'm blessed with the opportunity to share
conversations with some of the most creative people on the planet.
Geezer Butler was just a few minutes ago from Black Sabbath,
and we talked about being at the ages that we
are and that creativity is still beating like a child's heart.
I was with the group mud Honey, who was one
of the very first founding fathers of grunge music, that
was earlier this morning, the same exact subject, being where
we are in age, but the creative muscle is still pounding.
I mean it's raw, hard pounding to be able to
go out there to enjoy life. Now. I want to
turn it around and say, how do you know we're
not having a great time with life? And although we
see it as work sometimes and other people see, well,
you're never home, so you must be working all the time.
Maybe the vacation is being on a stage, being on
a microphone, being in that place of connection, because that
is what the creative monster really wants us to do.
It wants us to be in that place. And if
we go over here to this other place where everybody's
having their vacations and their writing amusement park roller coasters,
are we really going to be happy? Or are we
going to think about that stage, that moment of creativity
where it pops out of your heart and you're going,
oh my god, why, after all these years, have I
just thought about this for the very first time, That
moment when you lay down your tracks and you go
over and you grab your coffee cup that's just steaming hot,
and you say upon it and the scent of that
coffee goes right up your nose, but the flavor goes
right into your belly. It's just a moment and you
can't really write or sing about it because it's your moment.
So instead of complaining about, well, I never have time,
how can I just let go? It's because your creativity
wants you to continue pounding, and in that creativity there's
always going to be a path that nobody else has lived,
and once again, from their point of direction and point
of view, what if they're seeing what you're doing as
being the greatest adventure on the planet. I'm Ril, and
that's stream thinking.