feeling uninspired can look like feeling a little flatter than usual feeling less excited about the
stuff that you're usually really excited about really struggling to motivate yourself to do
things on your side projects or your main projects or even just failing to get yourself out of the
same routines that are keeping you in the rut in this video i want to talk about seven ways
to get yourself inspired again but i also want to address the number one thing that you can do
that will prolong your rut for most people ruts will last from a few weeks to a few months but
there is one thing that you can do to radically prolong them not accepting your reality as it is
except that you are resisting your routines except that you are feeling flat except
that you are feeling uncreative acceptance is not approval it's just acknowledging what is and if
you don't acknowledge your reality how can you respond to it acceptance comes before change now
let's talk about seven ways to get inspired again number one take inventory of your life feeling
uninspired can be situational taking inventory is part of acceptance it's getting clear on what
might be causing or what might be contributing to you feeling uninspired for example in a harvard
study that looked at over 9 000 journal entries of 177 employees they asked the employees to rate the
amount of time pressure they felt on a daily basis what they found consistently is if that rating
was seven or over the employee's creativity their inspiration if you will decrease by 45
so if you're in a situation where you have a lot on your plate feeling uninspired is a pretty
standard response take inventory of your life by writing three lists the first list is a list
of what is not working for you the second list is a list of what you can do about those things
immediately and the third list is a list of what you can consider doing long term or ongoing about
these things for example on your what's not working for me list you might write feeling
disconnected in my relationships on your what can i do immediately list you might write text my
partner ask them if we can do dinner journal about my feelings and what it is that i need to talk to
them about and talk to them about it at dinner on your long-term ongoing list you might write set up
a weekly relationship meeting which you can find a resource for on the intention app set a timer for
yourself and write those three lists the second way to get inspired is to create for someone else
rick rubin who is a music producer has an exercise that he does with artists who are feeling
creatively uninspired when they're having a hard time writing new material for themselves he gets
them to write new material for someone else he asked them to write the song that they wish they
could see from their favorite artist or an artist that inspires them what that helps to do is remove
self-imposed boundaries this activity was actually inspired by the bee gees who wrote their song to
love somebody for otis redding but he passed away so they actually ended up singing it and it
turned out to be a very well performing song once you're no longer creating for yourself or creating
for your own benefit you can get out of your own head if you're in a rut creatively or in your work
and you can't seem to find the inspiration to do your own thing try working on someone else's thing
i could write a script for another productivity youtuber you might pick an artist that you love
and create art in their style that you would love to see there's a girl on tiktok who recreates
brand logos it's done satirically but it's an example of this in practice the next way to get
inspired again is to look at whatever it is you are working on and ask yourself the question who
is going to benefit from my effort it might be the one person who has followed you who you know will
love whatever it is you're doing you might just be picturing the joy on your boss's face it might be
the confused customer from three weeks ago daniel pink in his book when wrote if you're feeling
stuck in the middle of a project picture one person who'll benefit from your efforts dedicating
your work to that person will deepen your dedication to your task i do this with instagram
i know that when i watch someone's instagram story that is inspiring it can turn my whole day around
i will start taking action i will do a little journal i'll do a little meditation because i saw
someone on instagram and they pepped me up when i'm motivating myself to post on instagram story i
am trying to think of that one person who is going to benefit from my tiny quick instagram story post
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is to create rules if we're on the same side of tick tock you might have seen the girl that
creates rules for her day there are saturday rules must be up at seven must do a hot girl walk must
do everything slowly there are rules for going to the movies must be dressed comfy must bring a bag
of m ms must be topped off with a hot chocolate on another note animator chuck jones also created
rules for his roadrunner cartoons no outside force can harm the coyote no dialogue ever except for me
the roadrunner must stay on the road chuck jones was a big believer in strict limitations or as
he called them disciplines to foster creativity he once said everyone i've ever respected always uses
restricted tools the greatest comedians were the ones who wore the simplest costumes and worked in
prescribed areas like chaplin rules that are of your own making constraints that are of your own
design are the funnest rules to make to create inspiration in your days create rules for your
days to create inspiration in your weeks create rules for your weeks to create inspiration in
your work create rules for your work wherever you are feeling uninspired create a set of rules and
try to adhere to them the next rule to follow to get yourself inspired is 10 minutes a day
every day that's all if you have a goal or a project that you've been feeling uninspired
by commit to just 10 minutes of action every single day no more and no less that's important
no more because you want your momentum and your energy that you're building to roll into the next
day and the next no less because you need to spend enough time on the task to create momentum you
need to sink into that task the amount of times that i've thought that i was totally unmotivated
had no creative energy left to give only to sit down spend 10 minutes on a task and find all of
that creative energy coming back is unbelievable in the words of james clear motivation often comes
after starting not before action produces momentum commit yourself to the bare minimum and then see
how that goes the next way to get inspired again is to spend your time on a different creative
project in the book tools of titans a book that features some of the most successful people in the
world tim ferriss found that a commonality between a lot of these successful people was a side
obsession these people would work intensely on goals and projects and then to blow off steam they
would be making specialty coffee just for fun if you are struggling to get inspired start tapping
into whatever side obsessions are there for you recently i have been feeling uninspired so i've
actually started making a halloween costume which is something that i always used to love to do if
you followed my channel for a while you would have seen a lot of halloween diy videos back in the day
i was in the trenches with my hot glue and my flowers and i was putting my creative fuel into
something that is so different to what i do for a job it let my mind relax it let me be creative
in a way that didn't feel pressure filled and it topped up my creative energy in other areas
the next way to get inspired again is to absorb new ways of thinking my routine more recently
has been getting up in the morning and spending 30 minutes reading a book i'm reading new information
and thoughts every single morning i'm taking notes detailing how i think about those ideas and i'm
feeling more interested than i have in a while sometimes i get inspired by reading books that
i've already read and i've created a whole video about that topic go on to whatever bookseller
website you use or the library website or the documentary website that you follow wherever it
is that you go to to get your media and then get out a bunch of media that you know will inspire
you it could be books that you have already visited before that inspired you previously
it could be completely new books that are in a field of interest that you've wanted to explore
for a while follow your curiosity if you liked this video you might like my video on little
upgrades to make to your productivity routines where i share some fresh new approaches to your
productivity routines that you can apply to get more done in less time with less effort i'll have
that linked on the screen as well as down below i appreciate you so much and i'll see you soon