Inspiration and reaching your goals

Alone time is just as important as socializing time. It is important to stay alone for you to understand your thoughts and emotions at a deeper level.

When spending time alone, put your phone and other devices away. Turn off the television and meditate for a couple of minutes. Sit down comfortably. Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What do I want? “

You can get inspired by listening to good music. If you are feeling tired and stressed out, just listen to good music. It makes you feel peaceful, happy and relaxed.

And you can only get inspired if you are peaceful, happy and relaxed

Encouraging people to be curious generates workplace improvements.

When we are curious, we view tough situations more creatively. Studies have found that curiosity is associated with less defensive reactions to stress and less aggressive reactions to provocation.

Curiosity encourages members of a group to put themselves in one another’s shoes and take an interest in one another’s ideas rather than focus only on their own perspective.

Thus, conflicts are less heated, and groups achieve better results.

This happens because music stimulates the entire brain and not just segments of it. Using this knowledge can help you in various ways.

• Meditation. Some people use music to help them clear their minds.
• Listening to music while studying or working can help you remember more of the information.
• During exercise. It takes the mind’s focus off of fatigue.
• Focus on sleep. Music calms the mind and causes you to focus on your rest.

Ambient music at 70 decibels will increase specific creative tasks by activating the parts of the brain that think in abstract ways.

• Focus on the process, not the outcome: feel inspired by the work you do and by everything that is required to achieve results.
• pay attention to your impact, to how you make others feel and then make sure it's the kind of impact you want to be having.
• Push your comfort zone. Those surrounding you will feel inspired and they will most likely follow suit.
• Focus on your well-being. If you feel good, you will naturally inspire others.
• Commit to a vision and never give up. When others know what motivates you and your commitment to what's important to you, they will feel inspired.

Awe is an emotional response to being in the presence of something greater than yourself, and that exceeds current knowledge structures.

Awe is a positive emotion and has a broadening effect on our thoughts and actions.

Feelings of awe have historically been recorded when individuals encounter contact with a "higher" power.

In modern times, the main triggers of awe are philosophical ones such as literature, music, paintings, and nature. Examples include natural wonders or events such as childbirth.

It is less about what you do and more about how you see what you do.

Qualities a purpose needs:

• It's a stable and far-reaching goal. You need something that motivates you and that you can organize your actions around.
• It involves a contribution to the world. It makes a difference in the lives of people who don’t happen to be you.

You have a story you tell yourself about your life — whether you realize it or not.

A trend in the stories that people with meaningful lives tell themselves -  redemption stories: the tellers move from suffering to salvation — they experience a negative event followed by a positive event that resulted from the negative event and therefore gives their suffering some meaning.

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” – Coco Chanel

Spend your time wisely. Nothing will happen just by looking at it, so act upon it.

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau

Success is nothing if did not learn about anything what you have gone through life.

Use them to support your body, your emotions, and your intellect.
For this to happen, make sure you:

• sleep well
• eat nutritiously and intentionally
• exercise
• read and find intellectual stimulation
• connect with others
• do things that excite you and give life meaning
• live your values.

It helps you in the process of developing the right mindset of a writer.
Journaling makes you reflect on your life, imagine future possibilities, and you get to play with words because this is also a writing exercise.

The narrative of growth from adversity might sound convincing, but it's difficult to collect reliable data on people before and after they've experienced trauma.

Studies found that people are not very good at accurately remembering what they were like before a traumatic event. When they think they have experienced growth, it might just be a coping mechanism. Those who reported personal growth after a tragedy were more likely to continue to experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

It can be problematic to embrace the idea that personal growth and resilience are typical outcomes of adversity.

Not everyone is stronger after a traumatic event. However, the support of family, friends, and communities in the wake of a traumatic event, plays a significant role in growing from it.

• Epic meaning and calling to finish a mission.
• Development and accomplishment inspires us to finish the game.
• Empowerment of creativity to bring imagination to life.
• Ownership and possession of rewards.
• Social influence and relatedness or envy.
• Scarcity and impatience to have things we don't have.
• Undpredictability and curiosity of what the next challenges are.
• Loss coins and chances and avoidance of failure.

• Reward yourself for fulfilling one or several tasks

Use surprise rewards.

• Determine a reward by chance.

Engage in time-based challenges

Make a deal with your friend.

• Challenge and motivate each other to finish a task