As you grow older. Embrace it. Own it.
Make sure you have life in your years and not just years in your life!
Stay in your lane and measure yourself against your own measuring stick.
Against someone else your life can look empty in comparison. But when you look at your life from your perspective, environment, goals etc you could be doing pretty incredible! Right on track.
Run your race. Not someone else’s!
I’m finding this is a really good thing to think about and consider answering for yourself.
I guess the question starts with; what do you need inspiration for?
Think about 1-2 areas you currently need or sometimes lack inspiration. Now think back to a time when you were inspired in that area. What were you doing? What was happening around you? Can you recreate that?
For me the areas I look for inspiration in are writing and designing.
My writing ideas come when I’m reading.
My fashion design ideas come from seeing stylish people wearing their clothes well. Strangely enough, I don’t typically get inspired from shops (unless it’s a unique boutique that matches my style, I sometimes find these around the UK and in Europe). I also get inspired to design from fabric, looking at the potential of what it can be. (So I like clothes before they’re made and after they’ve been brought).
So I’m inspired by the potential of fabric and also by seeing clothing fulfill it’s purpose. The right design, in the right fabric, on the right person, at the right time can bring confidence to the wearer and open up incredible opportunities.
Just some food for thought today!
The thought just hit me!
Right now, I’m on a bus in China. I have a busy day ahead and I’m driving through places I’ve never seen before and my eyes are having a feast but… inspiration has struck!! Yes right now. Middle of a fantastic bus ride, I just want to enjoy but my mind is being flooded.
So I’ve been journalling furiously between glances at the sights. I need to write this and I need to write it NOW. Fully. Sometimes you can go back and fill out the bulletpoints but sometimes the inspiration is so thick and rich that you need to capture it like right there and then, like a hunter!!
I’ve already written what was inspiring me at the time. This writing captures the moment I just had and how it felt.
I’m writing it now because my heart is still pounding. Making a note for myself later will provide the information but may lack the intensity of the emotions, still racing through my body.
So, when you want to go to the toilet… you need to go to the toilet, so you go to the toilet. Obviously! My point is that you honour what your body’s need in that moment (otherwise your body will embarrass you!) So when inspiration strikes, treat it with some respect! Even if you have to excuse yourself and go to (I’m going to be American for a second) the Rest Room and take 5! Capture that thought, idea, blog, email, song, poem, Word from the Lord. Because, you may go back for it later and what remains isn’t as good and what was.
Why now??
Do you ever wonder that. Sometimes, the inspiration hits at the most inappropriate time!
The negative:
Is it because I’m here 👎
It’s a test, it’s a distraction, nice idea but let me carry on with my shower, conversation (or in my case sightseeing).
or
The Positive:
Is it because I’m HERE👍
This actual moment, place, time, all rolled into one to cause me to think a certain way, connect with that moment of inspiration and BOOM!!!
This plus that and the other; made this moment so. I have a duty to capture it!!
That one thought could be the key that unlocked the gateway to everything I’ve been hoping for.
“I think rich people are tight, stingy and (fill in the blank)”
If you think this (or “know” this) and you’re trying to improve your life financially…. that thought, is what is slowing you down. It might seem unrelated. You may not even be aware you think that but it’s the thought, mindset, stronghold, garrison, fortified place STANDING between you and your goal, dream and/or desire!
What if you want to succeed in a certain area of your life and you admire the famous person who is succeeding in that area but the person you know who’s making great strides in that area or doing incredibly well, that person you resent, you can’t stand!! You say to yourself, you don’t even know why! It could be in the area of marriage, parenting, a career, weight loss or business. Your thought about that person close to you is the thought, mindset, stronghold, garrison, fortified place STANDING between you and your goal, dream and/or desire! (Yeah I said it again cause you need to hear this!!)
I’m in tears as I write this (on a bus in China – hey that statement made me smile). This is so very powerful.
My prayer today, join me;
“Lord, search me. Search my thoughts. What am I thinking about a person, situation, life, even about you, that’s wrong? Search my thoughts. Lead me. Guide me. Teach me. Bring down every thought, mindset, stronghold, garrison, fortified place STANDING between me and my purpose, goals, dreams and desires of mine and your heart!
Lord, over the coming hours, days, weeks, months and even years, soften my heart to hear your correction of my incorrect thoughts. Help me to change and let the change be permanent.
Change me, by the newal of my mind, thought by thought! Amen”
What inspires you?
What do you need inspiration for?
Where do you get inspired?
Sharing some thoughts on inspiration this week.
Sometimes you need to take time out to JUST DREAM.
Get into a private, quite space and answer the questions you need to answer and think about and Prost about. The one you can’t quite focus on when there are distraction.
Walt Disney said if you can dream it, you can have it. Question is…. do you REALLY want it?
It’s the small consistent, quite, private, boring, routine and seemingly mundane actions that later heap huge success!!!
The main saying is “go hard or go home” I say “Go small then go home”.
I’m currently reading this book “The One Thing” and it’s giving me life!!
It’s all about getting focused, honing in on ONE thing.
I’m a big advocate of FOCUS. This year I’ve been reading lots of books on goal setting and vision boards, it’s really got me thinking and dreaming again. Right now though, I’m feeing so much pressure from trying to push for all these goals and dreams it’s a lot!!
So, I’m going to FOCUS. Focus on the one goal out of the many that will impact everything else when achieved. This is settling to my mind!
Try focusing on 10 things at once, impossible. Focus on one thing and pour your energy into making hat happen. You’ll do it. You’ll find your way around obstacles and when you tick that goal OFF. You can move on.
My top tips;
The “go hard or go home” gives the going home a negotiate connotation. As though, you’re weak so go home. I say, “going home” means I’ve worked hard, now I deserve my rest. I have a balanced life now I can go and be with my family and chill, read, sleep and not feel guilty.
Small, focused, consistent actions each day and then go home and chill.
There is so much information around. So many ideas and thoughts and conversations.
Are you looking for inspiration?
I did this looked up my first one #womeninbusiness around 10pm AT 2AM…. I had to call it a night. I have more than enough inspirations, I was buzzin this my head was fried and I needed to fonts bed.
Do hasttag research then next time you’re stuck for ideas on something. Because there’s nspiration here, there and everywhere!
Share your thoughts below…
For me, there nothing like feeling the energy of purpose and passion. When my mind is lit with ideas and inspiration and I get going and don’t want to stop.
But when there’s no passion and I’m in less than too form. What keeps me going is;
You can’t have both. As Dani Johnson says “an excuse is a well planned lie”.
Thank about that the next time you’re trying to think up an excuse to give to someone for something you’ve not done.
We need to make things happen. There’s no time for creative lies/excuses. I’d prefer to pour my energy into creating results. Making mistake and learning. Tripping up and getting back up again because at least then I can say I tried. At least then I can get guidance on how to do better. At least I’ll have my own experiences. At least then… I’ll have the chance to success widely because I made an attempt!