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Six Steps To Finding Inspiration
Have a Human Touch
When exploring newly formed network connections, you’ve first got to gain the trust of those in the network. If you’re only there to complete your business task, it’s obvious to others and doesn’t engender trust at all.
Take the time to care about the people from whom you’re trying to gain inspiration. That requires sharing a part of yourself and being more vulnerable.
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Be Curious
Static systems stifle curiosity. Reintroduce curiosity into your brand by changing your perception of the world to a more dynamic one.
Instead of focusing on controlling the outcome when innovating, focus instead on thinking in dynamic terms and accepting many possible outcomes. This fosters curiosity in your team.
Be Keenly Aware
Part of finding inspiration is being keenly aware of subtle changes in your surroundings.
Only by getting out of the office and living within the network participants’ worlds will you be able to notice the subtle changes that magnify inspiration.
Use Your Imagination
To find inspiration is important to have an active imagination, and that needs to be exercised. Turn on your imagination by doing creative things.
Do things that encourage people to find inspiration through the use of “out of the box” thinking. When you support this kind of thinking by not criticizing it, new inspiration will really start to flow.
Be Patient
Finding inspiration is a journey with no beginning or end. Like anything else, most of us can’t find real inspiration the first time we try.
Finding true inspiration is something that you’ve got to spend every day doing, a little at a time. So, bring it into your daily schedule.
Always Stay Connected
Being connected, but also a part of your network’s community, allows you to consistently find inspiration for both products and marketing faster than your competitors.
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Do Things Differently
Trying new things or old things in different ways is a quick way to change things if nothing excites you and you’re living a repetitive routine.
Nurture Pleasurable Experiences.
If it doesn’t harm others indulge in the experiences you enjoy, the ones you can’t wait to get involved in.
Things that get you so motivated that you lose track of time while you’re doing it are a good place to start. Nurturing those pleasurable experiences will help your inspiration to flourish and grow.
See The Wonders Of Life
Most people have things they are insecure about and unresolved childhood issues. Those tend to dampen enthusiasm and inspiration.
You can change this by deliberately focusing on the wonderful things of life and being mindful of what you do. This lets you see things differently and reframe life choices more positively.
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Moving forward
At this time in history, many people are wondering whether we will have a life again. Will we recover with dignity?
Science suggests that we will do more than recover: we will show immense capacity for resiliency and growth.
From Resilience to Growth
Resilience is the ability to maintain a relatively stable and healthy level of psychological and physical functioning during and after a very traumatic event.
Studies reveal that resilience is actually common and can be attained through multiple unexpected routes. Studies further show that the majority of trauma survivors do not develop PTSD, and most report unexpected growth from their experience.
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The Importance Of Boredom
It drives us to engage in activities that we find more meaningful than those at hand. Without it, we’d be perpetually excited by everything.
Research shows that people who are bored...
Focus And The Brain
When we’re consciously doing things we’re using the “executive attention network, ” the parts of the brain that control and inhibit our attention. The attention network makes it possible for us to relate directly to the world presently around us.
By contrast, when our minds wander, we activate the brain’s “default mode network, ” which is the brain “at rest”; not focused on an external, goal-oriented task. In this mode, we still tap about 95% of the energy we use when our brains are engaged in focused thinking.
Types Of Daydreaming
- Poor attention control: when people with poor attention control drift into daydreaming. These people are anxious, easily distracted, and have difficulty concentrating, even on their daydreams.
- Guilty-dysphoric: when our thoughts drift to unproductive and negative places. We berate ourselves for perceived mistakes or flaws and feel emotions like guilt, anxiety, and anger.
- Positive-constructive: when our thoughts veer toward the imaginative; it reflects our drive to explore ideas and feelings, plan, and problem-solve.
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