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  The less creative you feel the closer you are to feeling creative again. Creativity is waiting...let it in. -- doug smith

There is something primal, primary, and joyful about making things with our hands. Creativity soothes the soul. -- doug smith

Start creative, stay creative, succeed creatively. -- doug smith

A creative imagination powered by positive action paves the way for limitless success. -- doug smith

Your personal supply of creativity is abundant. Tap into it. -- doug smith

She wrapped the bandage, even though the cut was still bleeding. "Hold that over your head," she said. "Do it now." "For how long?" "Until I tell you to stop. Unless I forget, then maybe ten minutes." "That seems like a long time." "Just hold it over your head. Have I ever been wrong?" "..." "I head that." "What?" "That silence. You know I'm right so just keep holding it up." It felt like the bleeding had stopped but his heart was still pumping rapidly. His pulse was a cadence even a marching band could hear. She opened the window. A quick breeze blew a paper off of the table. It floated a moment and before it drifted to the floor the cat batted it around, keeping it aloft like a balloon. "Can I put it down yet?" "No. Did I tell you to yet?" "..." "I hear that..." The cat pounced on the paper, smashing it to the floor. The ...

You don't need excuses for failing when you use the creativity to succeed. art business music education governing leading writing What if your MAIN ingredient is creativity? That's good news because you've got plenty of it. But, you might have to dig. Well? Start digging! -- doug smith

I found this while looking for something else and it reminded me of how much of an influence this wild piece of improvised music had on me when I was young. It goes all the way back to 1967, and legend has it that the improvisation was necessitated by the late arrival of the lead singer, John Kaye. I remember listening to it over and over as a kid in high school. It (or a similar recording) was featured on a double live Steppenwolf album. I love the subtle build and the almost spooky transition into the song "The Pusher." This still sounds great to me, and the early improvisations have influenced my own musical improvisation. Check it out.

One of the best things about improv is that it stimulates your creativity. The subtle feeling of not knowing what you will do or what will happen next seems to open a door to the muse and allow technicolor waves of insights to leak thru. Those insights aren't always funny. They are not meant to be. Those insights are not always brilliant. Those are the odds. The insights ARE meant to generate more insights and more fumbles, practices, missteps, dreams, and drops. Drops and dreams. Dreams and drops. The creative process is messy. Living creatively is your specialty. Go for it. -- doug smith