“And I think that the great majority of the problems in the world have some roots in the stuckness that people feel. And then trying to get out of the stuckness through things that are sublimating them, rather than satisfying them. And that’s why I’m always on and on about trying to find what true wealth means for you. Instead of the proxy of the hundred millionaire fantasy life, that proxies that experience instead of centering it in our creative impulse, of what we want to give too, and be, on this planet.”

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I was just doing some inner work that I do with a friend on the phone. And it was really good because I was feeling all these places where I was feeling stuck. And I was feeling kind of.. stiff, or unmoving. Or even where I didn’t know I had feelings, that were stuck underneath. And it was sort of a convenient lack of emotionality. It was sort of pleasant to have this mildly frozen state; but it wasn’t moving!

So then I did this work. There’s a lot of different ways to do that work, but the way I do it, I love. And I was really feeling a lot. And when I was feeling a lot, I could feel the energy moving. I could feel it like an ice flow, where the sun beats down and gradually melts the ice and then all the chunks start to move, and then the whole ice flow starts moving down the river. And the creative energy moves when you have that.

And I realized that I don’t have to know exactly where that creative energy is going to take me. I don’t have to have a plan yet. As soon as I let that creative energy flow, it’s going to flow somewhere. And I will wake up into a space where I know where I want it to go, as well.

And, at the end of the work, there’s an exercise where you look at how the world reflects you and you reflect the world. And there’s a phrase that I said: ” The big problem with the world right now is that the energy is not moving.”

And that was the thing I wanted to talk about for a minute. Because I think it’s very, very important. This project that we’re doing is about business, but for me, it’s about so much more than that. It’s about finding pathways, for people to feel free in their lives, to make things that really matter to them. And the way that that liberates our creativity to do things that are more meaningful, and exciting and powerful. And I think that the great majority of the problems in the world have some roots in the stuckness that people feel. And then trying to get out of the stuckness through things that are sublimating them, rather than satisfying them. And that’s why I’m always on and on about trying to find what true wealth means for you, instead of the proxy of the hundred millionaire fantasy life, that proxies that experience instead of centering it in our creative impulse, of what we want to give to, and be, on this planet.

So what I said was the big problem in the world right now is that the energy is not moving fast enough. So I think that’s really a lot of what’s going on. It’s that a lot of us have a great deal of stuck energy, in the form of emotional stuckness, that gets lodged in places in us. And causes us to lash out. And act out of impulsiveness; or acquisitiveness; in unnecessary ways. And this all might sound so terribly mystical. But I find it eminently practical and pragmatic.

When I feel the feelings that are in me, I connect with the creative current that’s alive in me. That. I suppose it is me. And that creative current gives me an internal aliveliness, that is here. Regardless of whether I have a penny in my bank account, or a billion dollars in my bank account or -$5 million in my