Designing a passionate life includes living from inspiration. I'd like to define inspiration before I talk more about it. Inspiration is acting or moving either your intellect or emotions. I see working from inspiration different than working from motivation. Motivation is defined as a need or desire to take action. To me inspiration comes from a place of power, creativity, and connection from deep inside of you and you feel the desire to take action. To me, inspiration is a lighter energy than motivation. Motivation feels like "willing or forcing" myself to take action rather than being moved to take action. Both inspiration and motivation move you forward but from a different type of energy. Right now, I'm focused on inspiration.
How do you know when you are inspired? What emotion do you feel? Where do you feel it in your body? In what form does the inspiration take? Do you get words, a visual, or perhaps a good feeling in your body? It's helpful to understand how you feel when you are inspired so that you can recognize it when it comes to you. If you can recognize when you are inspired and how you got inspired you can create inspiration when you want it. So how do you get inspired? I've written some ways that may work for you. Read the list I created and then write your own list of ways to be inspired and incorporate a one of them into every day.
Ways to Get Inspired
- Spending time in Nature
- Reading an inspirational book
- Spending time with loved ones
- Creating some form of art, it can be playing music, painting, sewing, knitting, pottery etc.
- Meditating
- Looking at photos of nature
- Watching inspiring videos of people overcoming obstacles
- Praying
- Sitting in silence
- Spending time with animals
- Spending time on or in the water
- Riding a bike
The list is endless. What you need to know is to find out what inspires you and incorporate those things into your life. This creates an energy of possibility for you to live in and draws more into your life. Take action now and get the inspiration energy flowing in your life.
For those of you who like inspirational videos check out these two videos. Inspirational Videos
