How to Find Recurring Inspiration

Inspiration is the single most important factor in making the most of your day. If you don’t know what you want to do or where you want to go, how do you stand any chance of actually getting there? This post will help you find a single source of inspiration that you can keep going back to, over and over, whenever you need it.

What An Inspiration Does for You

Inspiration, well, inspires you. It sets your mind moving in new directions, branching out from the mainline of thought you spend most of your day in. It helps you do something unique and amazing.

Inspiration sets your thoughts in an out-of-control spiral you can barely keep track of. It floods your mind with tangents you’d love to follow if only you had the time. It makes you want to grab a sheet of paper and write and write or draw and draw until you’ve got nothing left, which can be a long time if your inspiration is a good one.

Inspiration, in short, sets your passion free into a world full of ideas you’ve never had before. What you need is a source of this awesome energy that you can go back to and draw on whenever you need it. Since the best things we can do in life spring from our passions, getting those energies in motion is crucial to moving your potential into realization.

Where can I find it?

Inspiration is a natural complement – a beautiful synergy – with your passion. Only you know where that it – and I can’t tell you. What do you love doing? Where do you love going?

The surest way to find inspiration is to look in the same places. What are the things that most excite you? That let your thoughts and dreams wander?

Those are your inspirations. Personally, I love to let my mind wander through reading. It barely matters what, but every time I read something extraordinarily well-written, I find myself imagining not only the events as they occur, but of myself writing something that reaches somebody else in the very same way.

What causes you to want to create? What fills your mind with fantasies involving futures you wish you had? Those are your inspirations. They are the things that propel your towards what you wish you were, towards the stuff that your dreams are made of.

What’s so special about recurring inspiration?

Recurring inspiration is different from regular inspiration in a fundamental way. “Regular” inspirations give you a burst of passion and energy just once, but if you go back to it they can only take you down the same roads in your mind, to places you’ve already been. They no longer inspire you to new, grander things. They fade into reminders. They fade into memories.

A recurring inspiration is something that you can revisit whenever you need a burst of passion and be sure to find it. That’s a priceless asset you’ll never allow to fade into memory. It’s something that will always keep you looking forward, creating bigger and better for yourself.

How do I recognize recurring inspiration?

Recurring inspiration can be hard to recognize because it can border on obsession. You can easily get lost fantasizing in the very thing you ought to be harnessing. In fact, that’s possibly the best sign that you’ve found something that will always inspire you.

Where’s a place you can be lost in thought for hours? What’s something you can do for seeming eternities, over and over, exploring every minutia with joy and wonder and scrutiny? If you come out of it feeling renewed, but in that dream-state as if you had just woken up, there’s a thing that’s ripe to become a life inspiration.

Instead of getting lost in it endlessly, stop yourself. Once that vacuum thought-process starts, pull yourself out of it and examine exactly what you were thinking of. Like waking in the middle of a dream and being able to remember it, this will open entire new worlds of thought, contemplation, and experience for you.

If you can go back to it and have another explosion of passion, then this is a sure stop for you.

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