25 Ways to Find Inspiration and More →

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You are the source of your inspiration because whatever or whoever you seek to spark, the inspiration flows through your perception and history, and the twist you put on it becomes the final brushstroke.

“You are the source of your inspiration.”

You are the final filter for what inspires you, which opens up the potential influences to an infinite number. How you feel when you listen to music will not be created by the music but by how the music influences you. Instead, you recreate yourself as you seek inspiration, finding new ways to see your experiences.

25 sources for Inspiration, Finding Emotions and Feelings

Listen to music

Dance

Write your life story

Read the life stories of people you admire

Close your eyes

Read books

Pick a subject to search the internet about

Go for a walk

Surround Yourself with Positive People

Climb a mountain

Walk where there are Trees

Listen to the wind hit the leaves

Meditate and listen to silence.

Listen to your audience

Spend time with your family and friends

Go to a favorite place

Spend time looking at art

Daydream

Mentors & Teachers 

Meditation

Spend time with Children

Acts of Kindness

Going for a run

Spend time Reading

“You are the source of your inspiration.”

When motivation is at odds with inspiration, don't stop →

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Inspiration is about a person reaching a point of wanting to act, whereas motivation is more about giving people reasons to work.

Inspiration is an act of influencing people mentally and emotionally to do something creative. Motivation is something that compels or persuades you to take action. Inspiration is what pulls you towards something.

A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them—that person who isn’t going to stop along the way but keeps going down the road.

What about someone who will stop on the road somewhere and seemingly be drawn off course? Perhaps what stopped them on the road was an inspiration. Unlike motivation, inspiration works in precisely the opposite way. If the reason is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the opposite because an idea gets hold of you and takes you to a place that inspires people to think is the better direction.

Does this mean that motivation is a distraction from inspiration?

The answer might be that to find the answer to this question, we have to stop and think about it, but then that would answer the question and ignore the fact that the motion involved in motivation may make it easier for inspiration to find us.

Either way, it seems clear that motivation and inspiration are connected.