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50 Ways to Find Inspiration
Find Inspiration In Yourself
- Disconnect for a while and write in a journal.
- Embrace a new healthy habit that can better your life.
- Take a day to do only the things you enjoy.
- Try something new and enjoy going beyond your comfort zone.
- Sing in the shower. Release your feelings through music.
- Recognize in yourself the strengths you see in other people.
- Consciously let go of something that doesn’t serve you.
- Reflect on your life and the difference you made in the world.
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Think About Your Why
It’s important to nail down why you want to go plastic-free. Having a strong, defined sense of purpose will help you stay the course when things inevitably get tough and inconvenient.
The most common "why" of a plastic-free lifestyle is a sense of responsibility to help both the environment and society.
Understand What’s Possible
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You have to think of how exactly do you stop using it. So you first have to understand what’s truly feasible.
Start with Your Beverages
Perhaps the best place for people to start cutting out plastic is in your drinking habits:
- Carry along a travel mug for your coffee
- Invest in a reusable water bottle
- Buy a few metal or glass ones to carry in your bag.
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Challenge your preconceived notions
Be willing to accept the inherent risk in not following what seemed to be the obvious route. Such risk tolerance is another important part of challenging what you think you know and cultivating creativity.
If you’re always afraid to try new things because they might not work, you’re going to have a tough time cultivating your more creative side.
Plan Creativity-Stoking Sessions
Create vision boards–collages of words and images–related to business challenges or goals. Do mind-mapping or doodling exercises.
You will begin making remote associations. It can be hard and it’s a stretch, but it opens up new ways of thinking.
Change up routine regularly
When you’re facing down something unexpected, you’re taken out of your everyday experience and all of the preconceived notions that go with it.
Do something new every day to capture the same openness. Take a new route home and carefully observe what’s there. Look for beauty, interesting architecture, or exceptional gardens. Remember how it feels to be truly observant and unsure of what to expect.
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Inspiration has 3 core aspects
- Evocation: it is evoked spontaneously without intention.
- Transcendence: it involves a moment of clarity and awareness of new possibilities.
- Approach motivation: it pushes us to transmit, express, or actualize a new idea or vision.
Inspiration involves both being inspired by something and acting on that inspiration.
The role of inspiration
It opens us to new possibilities by allowing us to go beyond our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities.
And the good news is that it can be activated, captured, and manipulated, and it has a major effect on important life outcomes.
Inspired people
Inspired people report higher levels of important psychological resources, including belief in their own abilities, self-esteem, and optimism.
Mastery of work, absorption, creativity, perceived competence, self-esteem, and optimism are all consequences of inspiration.