Finding Inspiration: Secrets of the Successful

Everyone interested in creating eventually runs into the trap of telling themselves “I just have to find inspiration” or “yeah but that already exists”. The problem with this is that it is a very closed-minded outlook to have. Oftentimes people find one idea and fixate on it, they spend so long trying to make it work in a certain way that they close off other opportunities. The thing about inspiration is that you can’t force it. You can’t go out looking for it or complaining that you haven’t found it. Instead, you have to try things, leave your comfort zone and let the inspiration find you. 

Let's say you are an aspiring writer, you’re giving yourself 6 months to write a book that will inspire someone to change bad habits. You realize you’ll want to have about 20,000 words across 100 pages. The issue now is how do you start? You’ll start brainstorming some ideas here and there but nothing’s sticking. The issue is that you won’t find your answer by kicking ideas around in one place. Inspiration is born out of the real-world experience, realizations, and characteristics you notice in the world. You’ll need to get out of your comfort zone, observe, learn, adapt to new environments.

So now the question is where to start with this, let’s look at some places inspiration likes to hide:

Travel

Exploring places of the world you’ve never been to can open your mind to so many new things. Observing other cultures and analyzing their behaviors is important to developing an understanding of the world beyond what you know it as. People often take months, sometimes years to travel. During their time, they build knowledge of who they are and challenge their comfort zone. Leaving your comfort zone is a crucial aspect of becoming inspired. If you spend your whole life in a room with no windows, you wouldn’t know there’s a world out there.

Work On Yourself

So often we change things about ourselves, our clothes, our hair, our friends, but rarely do we ever change the way we think. Now changing how we think is one of the most challenging tasks we can go through as human beings. However, it can be the most rewarding and allow you to transform your whole life. To get started, you’ll want to develop a routine, and the morning is the most crucial time to have a routine in place. Researchers found that 92% of people who have morning routines are highly productive.

Setting the pace for the day and completing tasks will develop self-fulfilling habits within you. Working on yourself whether it’s reading, writing, or exercising, will all make you stronger mentally. This will lead to inspiration as you are keeping promises to yourself which also develops the highest level of confidence.

Listen To Mindset Mentors

As cliche as it may be, motivational speakers are great for gaining perspective. The advice given by these individuals is typically derived from a great struggle they’ve had in their life. Listening to how they overcome their obstacles can allow you to find yourself in terms of similar emotions, then you can take advice from the lessons they’ve learned. Speakers such as Jordan Peterson or Jocko Willink are some good options to understand different perspectives.

Not only this, speakers with high levels of knowledge in self-development can teach you how to take action and make changes to better your future.

Explore New Opportunities

There is no limit to great ideas, it just takes the right mindset to bring new ones to life. Someone may have done something but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it better. There are always new areas to explore with any given topic. Innovation to make products or services more easily accessible is extremely useful in 2022. Think about it this way, in America 60% of consumers order delivery or take out at least once per week, nearly 70% of millennials prefer to shop online, and 65% use online banking.

This goes to show that original ideas can be innovated to best serve the needs of today's market. 

Conclusion

Inspiration takes time, numerous test runs, opportunities, failures, and revisions are all things an entrepreneur will go through. The concepts that succeed are ones built on knowledge, research, and passion. Inspiration will allow you to put these efforts into your plan, and if you build it with this level of attention and care, you will achieve anything.

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Cause, Effect, Direction and Destiny… Where are you heading to?

Bear this in mind: every action we take, either conscious or unconsciously, a thought, a decision, any action (or lack of it), is a cause you set in motion.

Simultaneously, each Cause will always be paired with a corresponding Effect. 

Now, if that action is sustained in time will start creating a Direction, and we already know that every Direction will eventually lead to a Destiny.

 If we are not aware of the Actions we’re taking, the ultimate destination we would arrive to will surely take us by surprise –and not the kind of surprises we tend to like.

All of our Actions are permanently molding our Destiny.

Luckily for us, there is a lag of time from the moment we start screwing up and the moment when we finally create that Destiny; it doesn’t manifest itself instantaneously, it will take us some serious and constant screwing up to have all those effects piling up enough to produce tangible manifestations. 

There are however two sides to this time lag coin: One –we could call it the “favorable” one, is that it will take more than just one wrong action to ruin our lives. 

The other side, the “less-favorable” one, is that we will also need to stock some well-directed actions in order to generate the positive results we in deed are expecting. It will take some momentum. 

We cannot change months, even years of wrong behavior with just a couple of well-directed action days. It would be just like trying to stop a guy sliding down a water slide… 

If we were to catch him near the beginning? Well, it might work. 

Half way down? … Possible. 

But down to the end of the slide? At that speed?

No way, forget it  (and that’s why they put the pool there, you know?)

Think about it.

Stay Strong!

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7 Steps to Build –and Keep- a Positive Mindset

The power of a positive mindset –or positive thinking- is a trendy concept, almost a cliché, but not for that any less real. Its mental and physical benefits have been proved and demonstrated by many scientific studies; it can give you more confidence, improve your mood, and reduce the risk of developing hypertension, depression, and other stress-related issues.

So far, so good, but how can we build and maintain such a positive mindset?

Here’s a list of seven steps to take to accomplish that goal:

1. Start your day with positive affirmations. The actions you take in the morning set the tone for the rest of the day; go to the mirror and say to yourself: “today is going to be a great day,” or “I’m going to be awesome today,” and watch in amazement how your day will improve.

2. Keep your focus on the good things. There’s no such thing as a perfect day; whenever you bump into an obstacle, look for the good in that situation, no matter how small.

3. Look for the funny side in bad situations. We’re used to saying, “someday we’re going to look back on this situation, and laugh,” so, why wait? Just by looking at it with a smile, the way out or through the situation will show faster and clearly.

4. Turn failures into lessons. Mistakes are always going to happen, so instead of focusing on the failure, think about what you’re going to do –or not do- next time, and create a roadmap highlighting highways, shortcuts, roadblocks, and bumps.

5. Transform your negative self-talk into a coach. Your negative self-talk usually creeps up unnoticed, and soon it turns into internalized feelings that reinforce your conceptions of yourself. We have to turn our inner critic into an inner coach, so thoughts like “I’m so bad at this” become “once I get more practice, I’ll be great at this.”

6. Focus on the present. We need to live the moment. Most negativity sources come from a memory of a recent event or the exaggerated visualization of a potential future event.

7. Surround yourself with positive people and environment. When we do that, we hear positive outlooks, stories, and affirmations; their positive words and actions will sink in and affect our own line of thinking, words, and actions.

Everyone, no matter the situation, can take these steps and increase their positive attitude.

A positive mindset will always offer compounding returns, so the more often we practice it, the more significant benefits we’ll collect.

Stay strong!

One of the core values we have as a company is to inspire and empower people in all aspects of their lives. Additionally, if you want to read about our Custom Software Solutions and Consulting Services, please visit www.isucorp.ca, or book a meeting to review your software project.