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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow, unplugged

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stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in your present,

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your place of right now now. To get there requires practice.

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It's just one sheet of paper. Every day, just ten minutes,

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write about whatever is moving through your moment of what

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is right now, using absolutely no judgment. You see, stream

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thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking. Today. We're reading from

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March twenty fifth, twenty twenty three. I've got a few

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moments to write, just a few moments. The day's expectations

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are colliding on my Google calendar, schedules are being rewritten.

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Workplace bosses are frowning. Hey, you knew what I was

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when you pick me up. Just be glad that you're

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not living inside my shoes. It takes amazing amounts of

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conditioning mental stability as well as spiritual questioning. There's a

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lot to be done, and in these tiny days that

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lead into months, it's never enough of course, I get

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disappointed when I see other people having a great time

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on their social media. What's it like to throw yourself

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into a moment of hey, I've let go trust me,

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these people I know look to be having fun. You

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can't turn off the heart and thought process, the wonder

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of what it would be like if I could just

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turn it off. I'm blessed with the opportunity to share

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conversations with some of the most creative people on the planet.

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Geezer Butler was just a few minutes ago from Black Sabbath,

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and we talked about being at the ages that we

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are and that creativity is still beating like a child's heart.

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I was with the group mud Honey, who was one

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of the very first founding fathers of grunge music, that

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was earlier this morning, the same exact subject, being where

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we are in age, but the creative muscle is still pounding.

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I mean it's raw, hard pounding to be able to

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go out there to enjoy life. Now. I want to

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turn it around and say, how do you know we're

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not having a great time with life? And although we

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see it as work sometimes and other people see, well,

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you're never home, so you must be working all the time.

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Maybe the vacation is being on a stage, being on

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a microphone, being in that place of connection, because that

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is what the creative monster really wants us to do.

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It wants us to be in that place. And if

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we go over here to this other place where everybody's

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having their vacations and their writing amusement park roller coasters,

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are we really going to be happy? Or are we

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going to think about that stage, that moment of creativity

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where it pops out of your heart and you're going,

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oh my god, why, after all these years, have I

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just thought about this for the very first time, That

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moment when you lay down your tracks and you go

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over and you grab your coffee cup that's just steaming hot,

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and you say upon it and the scent of that

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coffee goes right up your nose, but the flavor goes

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right into your belly. It's just a moment and you

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can't really write or sing about it because it's your moment.

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So instead of complaining about, well, I never have time,

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how can I just let go? It's because your creativity

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wants you to continue pounding, and in that creativity there's

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always going to be a path that nobody else has lived,

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and once again, from their point of direction and point

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of view, what if they're seeing what you're doing as

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being the greatest adventure on the planet. I'm Ril, and

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that's stream thinking.