Answer to Question 9: How to Move Your Mojo

Remember all those Beatles songs like A Day in the Life, the Magritte guy, that reserved British banker corporate wonk type? In the 60's (which I kinda missed, unfortunately) wasn't that the guy everyone made fun of, didn't want to be? He sold out his creative and sexual urges for the boringly safe road. This was the generation that was not supposed to get fooled again, keep trading bosses, but you're always serving the same master. Security. I read a quote of Pete Townsend's once saying "the best thing you can have in life is consistency", I was floored. Wasn't this the guy who wrote Tommy, so inwardly attuned... who smashed his fuckin guitars onstage?? So, god only knows what money does to folks.
Let's face it we all sell out to some degree... even Curt Cobain, though it killed him. We're human & we love ego stroking and outer power. Just be aware of what you trade away though. That's the hard part. People forget what they gave up, the connection, the creativity, the passion, the spontaneity and discovery. Building that creative muscle, or connection, back up takes time and focus, like anything else. Sometimes I do envy those happy to plod along, they seem so content. But, once you've tasted the joy of creative expression, you'll want more.
So, how do people who focused on achievement all their lives get connected back to their cores and then be able to put that back out in some beautiful way? It's hard. Unless you're lucky enough to be able to work in a creative profession, but, even then I'd imagine there's always some trade off between politicking and working your way up and doing that through true creativity. How many people can you name who achieved big financial success primarily through creativity? Very few. It's almost always some trade off, many, throughout our lives. It's sad how many of us have had to trade off our creative time to "make a living".
I guess at a certain point, you're happy just to have a few viable creative hobbies.