Hey, what's up? I am Michelle B. I make videos every week on intentional living and in this video
I want to talk about how to stay inspired and how to stay creative
There's no exact process or procedure that you can do to achieve like an inspirational moment or a really creative thought
But there are sort of things that you can be doing on a regular
Basis to make sure that you're getting hit with those creative moments a little bit more regularly and that you're feeling inspired more regularly
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It's just always inspiring to listen to someone who might be an expert in their creative field talk about what they're passionate about tip number
Two for always doing creative and inspired is to always carry a notebook
This is something that I've only recently started doing since reading Osteen cleon's still like an artist when you hear something interesting
Or you experience something interesting hear a good story
It chuck it in your notebook
Record it
Document it so then at the end of every month or just whenever
Flick through your notebook and see like what kind of patterns
What kind of ideas you can find what things that you would actually want to do out of the ideas that you've written down on
What stories would work well in the work that you're doing by carrying a notebook?
You're making sure the little things that give you inspiration and motivation
Don't escape you of course you can always do this with your smartphone in it
But I feel like a notebook putting pen to paper. It's just so much better
It's just so much superior
My next idea is to write down ten idea of everyday
And this is inspired by a blogger called James Altucher when you write down ten ideas that every single day
You're exercising your creativity muscle even when the ideas are bad write them down like some you'll write down
You'll be like oh that will never ever and I'm also not interested in it
But some ideas you might write down and be like wow yeah
That's a great idea like I want to do that now
And if you're doing this on a daily basis the amount of cool ideas that you can come up with it's so much more likely
That you'll land on an idea that you're keen on tip number four is to always be reading a book reading is
Magical it fills me with inspiration and motivation like absolutely nothing else
Do you need to be constantly filling your inspiration tank with the thoughts ideas?
Writing and just general work of other people depending on the book that I'm reading
I'm always just like yes, and I'm ready to go and then I have to head off to work
But still the inspiration and motivation is there also I'm constantly taking in new ideas from all sorts of different sources
When you're taking in ideas from all kinds of sources you can end up with like
Anything like the world is yours my next tip is to be
Creative without a purpose so if you are a creative for a living so like me. I'm a youtuber
That's all my creative work, and then I have my full-time job also creative, and I'm doing that creativity yes like for myself
But also for other people, and if you only get creative when you need to do a YouTube channel
Or you need to write a blog post or you need to do some project for work your creative
Tank is probably just going to kind of wither make it a habit to be creative like
Just for you just for your soul to nourish you without an end goal my second last tip is
vision bought it out so a vision board is a way to put all of your favorite things all the things that inspire you the
Things that make you feel happy in one place so that you can look at it and get inspiration at any point in time you
Can put things that relate to your dreams and your goals on your vision board and images that relate back to like how you want?
to be spending your daily time create a vision board and put it somewhere that you can see it frequently so mine's actually behind my
Head it's actually on my door, so I see it literally every single day
Don't just look at it and visualize like a pretty picture of the future
But look at it visualize a pretty picture of the future and then think about like what you need to do to get to that
point because focusing on your goals
I'm focusing on what you need to do to get there is always a way to stay inspired and motivated
and my last tip is to take you time a really good saying that I read I think I might have actually been in the
80/20 principle book is that action drives out thought you're always just doing you're always taking action
you're not giving you a subconscious time to breathe and time to think of creative and
Hiring ideas your subconscious that part of you that has there's inspiring ideas it needs time to chill
Tamal things are about to actually like release the good ideas to you
100% if you have a good idea like you do need to sit down
And you need it executed
That's very important
You have to do the work, but if you aren't taking any time like in your days, or even just in your weeks
So like play rest chill out
You don't have time to like sit back think deeply access those creative thoughts and that inspiration
So take the time out that you need so that your creativity and your inspiration actually stays on a high
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Appreciate you guys like so so so incredibly much
I'd love to hear about what you do to keep yourself inspired to keep inspiration on top in the comments down below
And I will see you soon