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 A Muse's Daydream and Creative Prompts |
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Hi Fellow Creative Seeker,
The podcast, A Muse's Daydream is a daydream come true. It gathers all my favorite creative ingredients: inspiration, playfulness, entertainment, writing, dry humor, music, mindfulness, art, occasional collaboration, and in the latest episode, shrimp louie-- into one outlet.
It takes HOURS to engineer an episode: Writing, editing, editing, editing, recording, mixing, recording, re-recording, editing, rerecording, savasana, editing out the cat knocking over the candle, coffee, mixing, creating artwork, launching, sharing. I'm my own production team and have a personality clash between the writer and the engineer, but it's worth the contention because it's also a trip to the deep end of my bliss.
You wouldn't think something with great reward would be difficult to begin ... but it took years to start. The whole idea of making a podcast put me into creative chaos: I didn't know where to begin, looked in the refrigerator for answers, made it more difficult than it was, got overwhelmed by what what others are doing, and just kept putting it off.
These are all natural parts of starting something creative: Ambiguity, complexity, overwhelm, comparison, even taking more time than planned. Giving myself permission just to play with it a few minutes in a way that felt intuitively "me" was what made the momentum begin. Loving the results, a growing passion for getting better and a support system to cheer me on is what made it continue.
Twenty-five episodes later, A Muse's Daydream is in the top 5% of all podcasts.
And although I'd do it if I had three listeners, I am grateful a few others are enjoying it as well. If you're one of them, thank you. Share it with a friend. Write a review.
My wish is that you have a similar passion within which to immerse your heart and soul. And if you long to start something, consider lowering your expectations at the beginning to get started, choose something that reflects who YOU are - which sometimes takes time, stay with it until it evolves to as close approximation to what you're wanting as possible, but let go of the need to be perfect... set it free.
And if you need some support, let me know. Over the last 20 years, I've discovered a few tools to help you through the chaos and if I can't, I'll refer you to someone who can. Email me for an intro session.
Best,
Jill Badonsky
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Two new podcast stories/mini-vacations from
A Muse's Daydream Podcast:
 Open Mic at the Serendipity Cafe In this episode, I'm looking for a place to write a poem and stumble upon an open mic with a featured rap artist named Nick... but things aren't as they seem in a kinda of Black Mirror type way ... but not really. But inside of it all are some good ideas about how to make creativity easier and how to feel refreshed simply by the act of imagination. Listen here Nick's part is written and performed by Nick Catton, Master Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach. Nick has a few openings for clients and a Creative Mastermind Group staring out. More about him here.
The Modern Art Museum
of Your Mind
I received a brochure for an art museum where my thoughts were interactive works of art. There is abalone, slippers, and a belly button in this episode, as well as a busy café where I can overhear my thoughts talking at the next table about a shrimp louie hankering. Listen here. Written, narrated, and engineered by Jill Badonsky. |
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The Muse is In Art Prompts:
Art by Aykut Aydogdu
Take a visit to The Modern Art Museum of Inner Critics at this link. Browse the machines and surrealistic images, take your time and decide which one might represent the part of you that harshly reprimands you. Give it your own name. Do a scribble picture of it (it doesn't need to look anything like it, be free). I call mine HIGH PRESSURED Expectations.
I did this one
Painting by Peter Max
Then visit The Modern Art Museum of Freedom from the Inner Critic, pick a picture that feels like an antidote to the harshness you've felt from your inner-critic. Stare into it, breathe, give it a title that is a message you need to hear. Optional: Draw, paint, or become a version of the picture, with the help of your liberated self, but without the help of your inner critic.
Relax and Fly.. me again
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The Muse is In Writing Prompt:
Use the title from one or both of the pictures from the Modern Art Museums in the art prompt, and write a three line poem, haiku, or thesis.... or two. Give yourself permission to let it be a rough first draft.
Caught myself again
With those high pressured expectations.
Flew into a window.
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