Be Inspired and Inspire Back
“Inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something".
I started questioning about where to find inspiration and how to consequently inspire other people when I had to start delivering “impacts” on a daily basis for my company. At first I thought it would have been easy because our mind is an amazing tool able to process thousands information every single day. But happens if we leave these notions in a corner of our brain? We will never turn them into Inspiration. So, how do we turn information into inspiration?
It is a common belief that inspiration is manly required in creative areas of expertise: stylists, designers, writers, photographers, painters, actors. Believe me, that’s not absolutely true.
Inspiration is fundamental for everyone and it resides in the daily little things; You could be inspired by a song, an advert, a tv show, a landscape. You could either be stimulated by successful things you have profitably accomplished in the past, by the war tales of your Grandparents or even more easily by your family and friends success.
I want to tell you a story that inspired me and made me realised how with the right mindset everything is possible.
I know a guy, a triathlet. He tried to succeed in one of the hardest Triathlon in the world for five years in a row; but despite all the training he never did. Then two months ago one day he suddenly called me and told me:”I finally did it” and my answer couldn’t be more spontaneous “What did you do differently?” “I was there with my mind” he ansewered. His story inspired me deeply and I realised that we don’t have to find inspiration only in examples of successful business people or huge companies, inspiration comes from our everyday life.
Once I found my way to be inspired by people, locations, facts another issue came to my attention: we all are different and we are not inspired by the same things in the same way. So, how do we inspire other people? By explaining things in a simple and concise way, providing examples based from our everyday life, letting them explain us back what we have just shared with them.
It is not the message you deliver, but is the “how” you deliver it that make it powerful.
Now that have found our inspiration, how do we transalte it into motivation/action?