Creative Blockbuster List Friday

Honestly, I am so busy that I seldom have time to think about or even be concerned about what's blocking my creativity. Actually, altho I'm not creative in what may be thought of as the traditional ways, I try to use everything in my life as a creative outlet. You know, "how can I be creative while I'm trying to fill up my property vacancies?" or "while I'm mowing this field, what can I create?" or "when I write this late rent notice, can I put a new slant on an old concept?" or "what creative thing can I plann for DQ and MC for this summer so I don't hear the dreaded 'I'm bored?' These may sound mundane but they keep me sane, (I think.) I can even look back at menial tasks with a sense of accomplishment which makes the monumental things really feel creative.
But, putting all that to the side, there are some things that really inspire me to be creative, even in the traditional sense. I think an important thing for me is to not feel stressed. Altho sometimes stress can be a motivator, ideally I like to be free of it. I do this in several ways:
1. Finish my list of "to do's" for the day. Not the whole week but start early and get the "day" list done. This means keeping the list "do-able" within a day. OR
2. Put on some music and belt out the lyrics. Especially Broadway tunes. It worked for Maria, from Sound of Music and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. They just burst out in song in the middle of an argument or while walking down the street, and they never look stressed. I just recently saw the Musical "Lion King" so at any moment I might be dancing around to the tune and words of "Hakuna Matata" like I was strolling the Serengeti itself. (This also works with a song from Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody or We are the Champions.) Once the stress is gone-creativity can flourish easier.
But, a single thing that really has brought out the creative juices in me is reading about others' endeavors at it in their blogs. Whether it's the creative outlet of writing and journaling, creating with your hands through sewing, quilting and pottery, drawing or painting, gardening, the art of raising children or being financially creative on a budget, one of your blogs has inspired me. From the smooth lines and bright, crisp colors of her paintings, witty banter and amusing illustrative stories and emotional, thought provoking musings of Mrs. Pom to the beautiful handiwork and family stories of a Soul Sistah, to an illusive blackbird from Tuvalu who is so gifted at making the everyday matters of life a creativity in and of themselves to the currently vacationing Mistress of Merryville and her beautifully Victorian images and a garden of fancy as well as the often deep, always honest and insightful and sometimes even refreshingly politically incorrect, essays of the beautiful Eldonna. You are some of the inspirations to me that keep me feeling creative. I send a humble Thank you.