Is your free time to free minds or for falling apart?

I felt so much more creative than usual the other day. As a creative person (so I claim) I've often wondered just what gets my mind to swirl just the right way to do what I love to do; is it what I eat & drink? Is it who I hang around with? Is it all from my dreams? I find that some of my best ideas arrive after I wake up, though I can recall those dreams and they had nothing to do with disinfecting wipes. I might never know the exact answer but as the expression goes, "if it ain't broke don't fix it."

For a few weeks things had been dull, dreary and messy. Well, my room had been very messy. Still is. But I digress, random ideas weren't popping in & working. My head is full of random all the time and it's suited me very well. What's that? A monkey with a screwdriver? Oh, no, that's just my friend Jo-Jo-Jr. Wait..there is no Jo-Jo-Jr. Okay, I think I have a beautiful mind.
See my point?

The beauty of good creativity is making something work. You can have all the random in the world but it gets you nowhere without proper application. Having the idea is only the 1st step, creativity is like many things in life where you need to try hard and go that extra mile if you want great things to occur. Personally, I am determined in my life to make as much work as possible. I kill myself to get my work done, I try to go that extra mile for my friends (even the far away ones), I wear gloves on top of gloves to use my iPod (okay, old news). What I don't do is clean my room. But I will soon. I'll snap and clean it 'till I drop. Why am I talking about that again?

I woke up a few days ago and the world was right again, creatively. I could look at anything and see so many ways to use it and abuse it. Sell it, buy it, pluck it, pull it, do what you will people. I know I have. I wrote down my ideas on receipt paper at work, and stuffed them in my pocket. Some of those ideas made it to the next level, some, well.. I couldn't read my own writing.

In time the creative work of myself & friends in advertising will inspire a range of actions and emotions across the globe. Our creativity will move them, motivate them, captivate them, they will feel different than that had previously, perhaps they will clean their desks off?
To get the ball rolling on this, be creative off the clock.
No one likes doing their job for free, but using your imagination isn't a job. It's just getting paid to have fun...While you are up all night. But if you're like me, you'd be up all night anyway writing a blog or something. I donno, Facebook? You know how you waste your time. I'm gonna go clean my room.

Title inspired by this week's song that's keepin' me going:
-Ize of the world (The Strokes)