How To Find Yourself Under the 'Lightning Strike' of Inspiration
How do you stay creatively inspired? Here's 4 steps to help you every day.
I call it the blank page syndrome.
We’ve all been there. You have to write or create something. You can see the deadline approaching. You have the clean, crisp, blank sheet of paper in front of you, yet you can’t quite work out where to start.
Time passes. The more you sit there stressing, the less you feel inspired. And the more the desperation starts to set in.
And this is the reason that the question of…
“How do you stay creatively inspired?”
…comes up again and again when we are working with teams. (Just a little side note: if you would like us to come and work with your team, feel free to contact us for details at rich@thehopefulrhino.com)
How do you stay inspired?
The answer that no one wants to admit is that we all face times when we don’t feel inspired. Yet, some people seem to be continually prolific, which leads us all to believe that other people are constantly inspired and that we’re not.
So what’s their secret?
I have come to learn that their secret is that we have all fallen for a lie about inspiration…
It is so easy to feel like inspiration is something we innately have built into us (or not built in). Or that ideas just “fall from the heavens”.
But prolific people, those that are inspired by good ideas all the time, treat inspiration differently. They work at the art of being inspired, more like a discipline than a skill anyone possesses innately.
With that in mind, here are some thoughts to help you reshape your thinking regarding inspiration. They will reduce your desperation and increase your imagination about inspiration.