A Creative Person Who's Dormant . . .

  
. . . is a creative soul in torment.

Pithy I know.

It was a phrase that came to me a while ago, and which I duly noted but then forgot about. With though the recent changes I'm considering trying to instigate into my current lifestyle, it again entered into my mind and started me thinking anew.

For a while now I've realised that the nature of my working life has moved further and further from the creative aspect, to the more organisational and managerial side. However, after the initial buzz of new responsibilities and solving new problems, I wondered why I was no longer looking forward to work as much as I previously had. Then I realised. I was hardly ever exercising my creative muscles.

Some people I have worked with have expressed amazement at how certain jobs I do require new creative ideas daily. To them that would be their idea of hell, constantly having the pressure of coming up with something new for a subject that they might not always have a personal interest in. They love their job. Always the same spreadsheet, always the same options and variables, just different values to be input. To them the comfort comes in knowing what most days will entail. They can't understand why anyone should wish to work in a job where nearly every project is an unknown and has to be started from scratch.

However, the creative person thrives on the new, the unexpected and is often focused by the need to deliver something within a certain time period. (I know I do some of my best work with a deadline!) The buzz of having an idea and seeing it realised must be akin to the endorphin rush all my 'gym bunny' friends have after a hardcore workout session. 

But most creatives though, after that initial 'creative high', also need to share their work as a way of getting even more out of the experience, and so that I think will be my aim in the coming new year. Not only to be more creative, but to then share what I have done with others and learn what I can from the feedback that ensues. Assuming that anyone actually wants to look at my work!

So even though New Year's Resolutions can be a bit of a cliché, I figure . . . why not?