Make Inspiration A Habit In 3 Ways

Seeking – and giving  – inspiration is blissful. It is riveting and a beautiful soul-searching process.

Finding meaning in small yet significant areas of your life makes you complete and content in your being. Just like how you can learn to be happy the way you learn a musical instrument as per the recent post on Inc, here, likewise you can learn and make inspiration a process that soon cultivates into a habit.

When we get into a certain process or a system, our daily actions become a habit over a period of time.

However, this process doesn’t culminate into a habit so easily – there is a lot of hard work initially to train our mind to treat every outcome or learning as a hallmark of inspiration.

How?

Weed out the dead weight from your life.

When you get rid of the dead log from your life, you create more space for positive energy and healthy cogitation: of what people, ideas, things and events that define your life. That way there is room for harnessing the power of positive energy and procreating inspiring moments not just for yourself but also for others.

Be on the plus side.

Well, before I write any further, grey matters. No matter how much skewed a situation maybe toward negativity or darker side, have a perspective to rationalize that it is still in control and can be resolved. Don’t cast an eye on problems from an acutely negative and myopic standpoint – imagine the bigger possibilities via ironing out the not-so-pleasant aspects and arriving at the ‘plus’ side of every outcome. Create consensus via envisioning a situation from a ‘creation and growth’ mindset. That way you develop an eye to see the spark of inspiration where others may see none.

Be a part of a bigger purpose.

Connect your passion with a larger calling – something which defines the world more profoundly. It could be as meaningful a being part of a campaign or cause or a movement. Make yourself count for others in every possible action or deed. It slowly multiplies and becomes a memoir of inspiration for others.

Inspiration is not a one-time act; it is a gradual belief in a supreme power and an emotion that binds us all together. It’s a sacred muse that connects us to our deepest reservoir of our purpose of  being.

And bestows us a gift to seek meaning and sensibility in every little thing in our life.

So inspire and be inspired. And repeat. Again.

Why You Shouldn’t (Always) Judge The Outcome (And Judge Something Else)

Results.

Outcome.

Achievements.

Now many of you would think why wouldn’t I just focus on them?

In today’s fast-paced and a frenetic world, shouldn’t we just look at the outcome and stave off from everything else?

When we are constantly working to achieve our results – it could be losing 20 pounds in 4 months or could be winning the much-critical sales pitch that will give you a promotion or simply could be to blog more rigorously – it could be anything. Then should we not judge our progress yardstick by the results?

And isn’t it rational to assess our pace of achieving milestones by what we have concretely accomplished?

Otherwise we would be making bogus generalizations; strange, abstract and painfully vague assessments of our progress.

Accurate?

Not quite.

Then what is it that we should tenaciously evaluate ourselves for?

It’s habit.

Our constant mini steps to make something second nature to us is what we should focus on.

Our habits are our anchors for success.

What we make ourselves is what we get out of ourselves – simple.

Setting goals is alluring, but executing it with consistency is a habit of excellence!

And many of us may not claim to be consistent – and that is why we need to get into a habit; a consistent ‘ritualistic’ regimen that helps us achieve even the most grandiose goals for a year.

But how?

Have a strong and an intent desire that develops into a flame of success. And develop focus until you know that you’re focused – be an outcome of process and experience.

With 2016 fast approaching, our goal should be to achieve our goals with a habit – something which guides us to our bigger purpose. While specificity always pays off when we have to achieve our desired outcome, developing a habit via mini wins alters the definition of outcome. Our habits are our miniatures of incremental yet astounding success – that beats even the most challenging results we want to achieve.

They may not lead us to big results from the get-go, but they help us revel in our promise to become so good, that people can never ignore us.

So no matter what outcome you envisage of, never lose sight of your present ability and the desire to win as a habit. It is your habit that will propel you to think of what you strive to become  as a goal.

So focus on habit, not outcomes; which in the need will become your outcome – an outcome to get into a habit and working monomaniacally towards constantly making it work for you.

How do you plan to achieve your results in 2016?