When you daydream, where are you? When you sing in the shower, do you imagine an appreciative audience? Do you wander t hru bookstores and wonder what it would be like to have your books sitting there, selling vast copies, changing the world? What is your creative dream?

Spark your ideas with these questions:

•  If you could be famous for one thing, what would it be?
• Imagine that you could build a room all of your own onto your living space -- what would you do in there?
• Visualize yourself on the cover of your favorite magazine. Why are you there?
• What would you talk about if you made the circuit of TV talk shows for a month?
• What would your tour look like?
• What kinds of people might imitate your work? What would you teach them?
• Once all of your physical needs have been met, what do you like to do with your hands?
• What does your perfect life look like?
• Listen...what are the sounds of y our fantasy creative life?

Answering these questions could inch you a bit closer to that life. Isn't that what you really want?

So much is happening and changing -- it's enough to spark your creativity! I've been blogging eratically at another location, and maintaining a variety of websites in search of that one unifying concept. What's the one thing? What's at the heart of everything that I do? What will center my mission?

In talking with my partner, Dorinda we have been sharing ideas for what comes next creativity. At the center of what we do: developing performers and professionals, we include acting, singing, communication, and preparing for interviews and auditions in our list of growing vocations. We love developing people, and we love developing creativity.

So here goes, the new version of our blog. The Creative Muse is a place where we will offer our humble thoughts on creativity, performing, and the arts. Stop by, check it out, and comment as you like. We like the company.

Doug    

Creativity is a shared resource. We are not in a competition over the last drop of creativity because the more creative we are, the more access we have to even more creativity.

Creativity breeds creativity. It sparks more ideas, more energy, more flow by liberating ideas from limitations and connecting people with their dreams. Fully realized, creativity drives a bright and wonderful, endless source of connection.

When you create, you ignite more connections and the beauty, practicality, and pleasure of those connections invite an even greater creative response.

The more creative we are, the more open we are to our own creativity, the more we open other people up to creativity as well. Creativity grows more creativity. It's a great and awesome gift.