Sat 31 Jan 2009
What gives you inspiration and motivation?
Posted by echan76 under Religion & Spirituality
surfer chica asked:
This is a question for everyone to answer–I’ve been feeling really uninspired lately and have lost direction–what is an easy way to find your inspiration?
This is a question for everyone to answer–I’ve been feeling really uninspired lately and have lost direction–what is an easy way to find your inspiration?
the future
people, volunteering and music
The knowledge that religion is on the way out.
That and the fact that Dubya is on the way out.
wait. Inspiration can’t be forced. Just wait for it. It should be just a passing phase.
My fiddle.
Gospel music.
Calling Christian friends and telling them I have a problem.
They pray With me of For me.
I would cap on to what your first answer said the “future” but would go a little bit more in depth. Not in the future of what mankind is doing or is going to do, but in what God has done, is doing and will do. If God has handpicked you, that is defiantly inspirational. When my worldview is centered on God that gets me motivated.
John 3:16
Nature.
I find the beauty of nature to be inspiring. I love to take my iPod and run the trails of the mountain and soak up all the splendor of the surroundings. I also adore just roaming around town with my music, observing everything and everyone, and I find inspiration in surprising places, like a quote etched into a building, a beautiful flower, a compliment from a stranger.
I’m a volunteer dance teacher at a center for underprivileged kids, and I find them to be incredibly inspiring. Some come from abusive, impoverished homes, and yet they are so sweet and happy, and they dance with spirit and are eager to share things with me. One girl insists on bringing me a pudding cup every week!
When my great grandmother was alive I would spend a lot of time at her nursing home, and I absolutely loved talking with the residents there. Her generation survived both World Wars, the Depression, Vietnam, and faced so much more daily challenges than we do - life wasn’t as easy for them when they were young - and yet they are optimistic, filled with faith, and so, so eager to chat and share stories with you. There was one lady there who’d had a stroke 9 years ago that left her unable to feed or take care of herself, and every day her husband was there watching over her. He was too old to look after her himself, but he would feed her and comb her hair and just sit with her, even though she couldn’t talk, all day. I find love and devotion like that to be deeply inspiring. After my Nana passed away we took the flowers from her funeral to the nursing home, and I was incredibly moved to see that the first instinct of many of them was to want to give it to a nurse or anyone who helped them. They wanted to pass the beauty on.
Other suggestions:
If there is a beach near you, go take a walk there then watch the sunset.
Spend an afternoon at an art gallery or museum.
Do something you’ve never done before.
Watch “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”
Read “The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller.
Listen to music you love every day.
Volunteer.
If you a person of faith, set aside time every time to pray and just be in communion with God.
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I hope this helps you on your quest for inspiration & motivation.
Pax vobiscum (may peace be with you)
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just check it out.
It has Short motivational and inspirational stories
hope you will also like it
good luck