5 Inspirational Tips from My Archives

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I hope you don't mind me "replaying" a very early blog from when I first started out. I have blogged 120 some blogs so far this year - I even missed doing something special for #100! - but this gives me time to work on my other writing projects. As always, I SO appreciate your coming by and leaving a comment. You have no idea how much this blog has encouraged me to resurrect a myriad of projects I'd started long ago. Hugs of thanks!

THE TIPS

Once you try it you will know that it works. And it is so simple. Why do the really simple things get passed over? Are we so "advanced" we ignore simple anythings?

Gratitude is simple. It has the number one spot on the list of tips to inspire change, a mini-motivational "get pumped" list.

Inspiration #1 - Gratitude. Make a list (daily) of everything you are grateful for and start with the fact that you are breathing. Once the mind is trained to look for all the little things to be grateful for, it carries over into positive thoughts altogether. A written list is more powerful than a mental list.

Voltaire said "Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty." I don't know what the job market was like from 1694 to 1778 when he lived, but there is always some work to do if you want to loose the boredom.

Inspiration #2- Get to Work. If you can't think of any work to do, ask someone else if they need help. Volunteerism is a great element to add to your life and everyone can benefit. Cut the grass for someone down your street - or in Chicagoland, shovel snow. Look around and see what simple little thing you can do for a friend or neighbor.

Inspiration # 3 - Avoid using the word bored. Erase it. Put lost in its place if you absolutely have to speak about it. Is "lost" better than "bored"? Maybe there is a bit more life and energy in being lost; it may imply you just now became lost, weren't always lost, and yesterday you knew where you were in life. Saying you are in transition could be the best choice, implying you are about to change. It sounds like you are thinking. Thinking is a good thing and change will come faster as a result.

Inspiration #4 - Think of one thing you can change right now and do it. This is a quickie thing just to prove to yourself that you have a pulse and can get off your butt. It doesn't matter if it's going for a walk, cleaning the fridge (without eating of course) or taking all the piles of newspapers out to recycling (oh look, I see the _____ now. - insert table, floor, or whatever the papers were hiding.)

Inspiration #5 Being around others who complain, especially of boredom, is not a good thing. If you can, engage them to join you in your effort to change. Great! Build up support for yourself. Who do you know that always seems to be busy, involved with life, committed to hobbies/sports?
Join them or emulate that behavior. Ask yourself are really living your life?

Life is a banquet. There is absolutely no limit of things to learn about, causes to support, people to help. Throw the blahs out with the garbage, listen for the drumbeat of change and join the dance of life.

Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) said "Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." WOW - we have potential.

Food for thought and hopefully, inspiration.
suZen