It’s time for us to wake up to the idea that having fun…

Is a deception.

Don’t believe me?

Well…

Have you ever looked at the Etymology of the word fun?

It comes from…

Fon or Fonnen

A middle English word.

Here’s the kicker…

The origins of the word fun mean…

“To make a fool of”

“A diversion”

Or…

“To cheat, trick or hoax”

Well if fun is a hoax…

Guess what?

You’ve fallen for it.

The greatest scam of all time.

“I just want to have fun”

Here you are… partying all night, getting drunk.

Jumping from bed to bed searching for some fun.

Doesn’t sound like you?

Maybe you’re the introverted kind of fun.

A nice glass of wine at home… maybe a joint.

Kicking back with some video games, or a movie.

If these things are so “fun”

Why doesn’t it last?

Why do people hit a point in life where they want something more?

Why did Henry VII write that fun is a…

“Continental vice that had brought no good.”

Is it because the middle ages were a stale and ruthless time…

Or is it because fun isn’t actually fun in the first place.

Maybe you just tricked yourself into believing that fun was what you needed.

When I try to think of a group that tends towards higher awareness.

I think of monks.

One thing I notice is that…

They aren’t having much “fun”.

Is it because they didn’t fall for the hoax?

Maybe the uncomfortable truth is that…

You’ve let someone make a fool of you.

I mean, we have to ask…

Why is anxiety at all time high?

Depression…

Degeneracy…

Does “fun” have something to do with it?

Well…

A hoax works by pretending to look like something else.

If fun isn’t what it presents it to be.

What’s the truth behind the trick?

The thing that “fun” tries to imitate.

Is creativity.

Scrolling on social media is fun.

Playing video games is fun.

Drinking is fun.

But they also leave you feeling worse off in the long run.

Why?

Because they feed off of you.

The difference between fun and creativity is that…

Fun is something that feeds off of you.

Whereas creativity…

You feed off of it.

Until the end of your life, creativity will always serve you.

Notice that older people aren’t having “fun”?

Especially the ones who are older, but still full of life.

No… they’re creating

Knitting sweaters…

Working on their hobby car…

Gardening…

They learned a long time ego that chasing fun…

Will eventually run out.

It’s like a high.

If you don’t get yourself off of the drug of “fun”.

Your’e always going to want more and more.

Bigger and bigger experiences.

It’s addictive.

The core flaw of fun is that it strips away the part that makes you feel something deeper.

Which is purpose.

Fun feels good in the body…

But purpose feels good in the soul.

When you are creating with purpose…

There is an endless supply of energy because you are pulling from source.

When I think about creativity, I see 3 core parts.

1. The idea
2. The work
3. The joy

First you have an idea.

There is something you want to create.

An experience, an object, whatever.

Then…

You must bring that idea to life.

Pulling it from the spiritual thought realm…

Into the physical.

Then… once that’s finished.

There is the joy.

The joy in experiencing that which you created… and often, sharing it with others.

This could be admiring your painting.

Or sharing in an experience you created for others.

Although you may not think so…

We human beings like to work.

We want to work for the joy we experience.

When we don’t work for it…

The joy is empty,

Just like the calories in your soda.

You think they’re filling you up.

But it’s killing you on the inside.

This is the key difference between consumption and creation.

While they both start with an idea, and end with joy.

One of them is involves a co-creation with spirit.

Do you think you came down to this early experience to feed off of the illusion.

Or to create in the illusion.

Because something that feeds off the energy of another is called…

A parasite.

The good news is that people are waking up to this.

Which is why you’re seeing the emergence of…

The “Creator” economy.

This represents a subtle shift to the idea that we’re all creators by default.

No one is born a spreadsheet slave.

Life turns us in to one.

If you want to turn yourself back into creator that you are.

It’s time to shift your north star.

Stop chasing fun.

Instead…

Create with joy.