15 Ways to Rediscover Your Inspiration
Inspiration comes and goes. We’re supremely motivated and inspired at times,
and in those moments we accomplish great things way faster than we do when
we’re not particularly inspired to hustle, create, and impact the world in a
positive way.
It’s those few who are consistently inspired
by a greater purpose beyond their own gain that shape the world we live
in. So how do we join these few in forging not only our own successful endeavors,
but seeing such profound success that the world benefits as well?
1. Be in nature
Be in nature at least once a month.
It’s in nature that we find inspiration. It’s where we remove ourselves from
the noise of our day to day lives, find clarity, and focus.
If you’re constantly “in it”, you’ll
find your mind will clutter, and your inspiration will flee. Venture to the
great out doors and let adventure inspire you.
2. Surround yourself with motivated
people
You are the average of the 5 people
you hang out with the most. If you hang our with millionaire’s, odds are you’re
one as well. If you hang
out with motivated people, you’re probably a motivated person as
well.
Be very cognizant of who you hang
out with. Choose your friends wisely. They’re influence on you is unavoidable.
3. Never think you’re “there”
I’ll always think that I have to
improve on my writing – and that I have a long way to go to being a good
writer. It keeps me inspired to learn and grow. If I thought I was a good
writer I’d not only be lying to myself, but I’d be allowing laziness to peer
its head into my life.
Laziness is the devil. Don’t think
you’re great, be great.
4. Don’t attempt insignificant feats
Do you get excited by small goals
that you know you can accomplish with ease? Of course not. It’s the big,
audacious, bold goals and dreams that excite you, so don’t waist your time with
the small stuff. Think bigger and be bigger.
5. Be healthy
Be healthy and active. If you’re
healthy you’ll have more energy, and if you have more energy you’ll find that
you’re far more motivated and inspired than you are if you’re tired and
sluggish.
Take pride in your health and your
work. Being healthy is a tool that you can use to your advantage, or something
that can work against you. What’s great is it’s completely up to you.
6. Read often
Great men have always been voracious
readers. Napoleon was, as is Gates, and so was Jobs. If you want to be
inspired, pick up a book, it never fails. If a paperback book slows you down
then you can always listen to self development audio books.
7. Have tunnel vision
Don’t have a back-up plan, a floor,
or a ceiling. Failure shouldn’t be an option, nor should you put a limit on
your success.
Focus on one goal, and let that one
goal be the only thing that matters.
8. Get excited by adversity
It’s in struggle that we grow. Get
excited about this. Too many allow adversity crush their enthusiasm and
motivation, but it shouldn’t. It’s a challenge, and challenges are exciting.
Rise to them. Don’t get pushed back
by anything.
9. Love problem solving
The road to success is, essentially,
one big problem you have to solve. Let that problem excite you. Don’t look at
your long, arduous road to success as a negative, instead look at it as a
positive journey.
Your mindset will dictate how
inspired you are and whether or not you remain consistently inspired and
focused.
10. Remove negative people from your
life entirely
Negative people are the cancer of
society, but they don’t need to be a negative influence on your life. Just get
rid of them, and get rid of them now!
If you’re only surrounded by
inspired people, you to will be inspired, motivated, and happy.
11. Write 3 things you’re thankful for
everyday
We far too often focus only on what
we don’t have, rather than everything we do have. The problem with that
approach is that happiness will forever elude our grasp.
If our happiness and motivation is
contingent on a future accomplishment, when we accomplish what we’ve set out to
do, we’ll then make our happiness contingent on an even greater accomplishment.
Thus, happiness will always be out of our grasp.
Be happy and thankful first, then
let that enthusiasm and energy inspire you to accomplish greatness.
12. Practice success
Practice success by identifying the
little goals that you accomplish in your life. Write down your accomplishments,
even if they’re small like going for a run or writing an article for a
publication.
Practice success every day and
you’ll live life as a successful person.
13. Be a fighter
I love a man who grins when he
fights. Winston Churchill
I love that quote. It reminds me of
the song Fighter, by Bruce Springsteen. Enjoy adversity. Welcome it. Adversity
is what will make you stronger. It’s only through great adversity that great
men and women reach accomplish what they’ve set out to accomplish.
If success was easy, everyone would
be there. Get inspired by your struggles just like a fighter gets motivated
to step into the ring and see what he’s made of.
14. Eat healthy
Eating unhealthy leads to depression
and obesity. It’s nearly impossible to be inspired when your body is
uninspiring or you’re depressed.
As a simple rule for eating healthy,
eat only things that you can pick or kill. Your diet should be made up of
things that come from the earth. Stay away from anything man-made or packaged.
15. Study greatness
There are patterns to success. The
more you study great people, the more you’ll see these patterns and incorporate
them in your own life. Don’t, however, merely read about great people,
study their lives. If you can, read about what others close to them have said,
read articles about how they accomplished greatness.
Greatness inspires. The more you see that success can, indeed, happen, the
more you’ll be inspired to accomplish your own audacious goals.
You can even read inspirational
quotes, that will be sure to motivate you and shift you into the
right frame of mind to be openly inspired.
