Take Charge Get Results - FINDING INSPIRATION

Chapter 4

FINDING INSPIRATION

“When you focus on the achievement of a goal, move with a sense of purpose toward its fulfillment, and establish your intent, then solutions or ideas that at one time didn’t seem to exist will just come to you. That’s Inspiration.”

Once you’ve established and unleashed your powerful desire to succeed, the plans you make and the ideas you come up with must be equally as powerful; ideas that send you and others running around the room, jumping up and down, or banging your fist on the table and shouting, “Eureka! .... Brilliant! .... What a great idea! .... Where did that come from? .... I didn’t know you were so smart!” or, “That idea smacks of Genius!” Inspiration is the key to developing powerful ideas that “smack of genius”, create excitement, and motivate you and others to act.

In order for you to access your own source of inspiration, for the creation of those ideas, you must do two things; move with a sense of purpose, and develop a strong intent. Purpose is the focused pursuit of a single goal, while intent is the decision to act. To unlock the door to inspired thought, to tap into your genius within, you must do both.

Move With a Sense of Purpose

Have you ever lost or misplaced your car keys? After you searched in all the normal places, as well as in the freezer and inside the oven (to include the broiler pan), and after your check of the drawers (for the third time) produced no result, did you get really frustrated, raise your voice, stomp your feet or repeatedly throw your hands skyward? You may have even stated, defiantly, “I’m not leaving here until I find those keys!” and then, of course, you realized that you couldn’t leave without the keys, because you needed them to start your car. Did you vow to find the keys even “if it killed you?” Or that you would find those keys “if it’s the last thing you do” (which it usually ends up being)? Maybe you vowed to find those keys even if you had to “tear the place apart?”

Would you say you became focused on finding those keys? Or that you had a single-minded, concentrated focus and fixation on finding those keys, no matter what the odds, and no matter what you had to do in order to find them? Would you say you were on a mission to find those keys, or that you had a sense of purpose? Once your purpose was clear, would you say that your intent was so strong that you made your decision to find those keys “no matter what?” Was your house or apartment spared total destruction by some inspired thought (divine intervention perhaps)?

[I love to hear “key finding” stories. They usually end up going something like this, “…I was so determined to find those keys that I was about to rip the house apart. Then it came to me (inspired idea); as I was getting a box from the back seat, I might have dropped the keys on the floor. Sure enough, when I looked, that’s where they were!”] In this example the “inspired idea” was only received once the purpose (focused pursuit of a single goal) to find those keys was established, and the intention, or decision to act was made to find those keys “no matter what”. This is a simple example, but the lesson applies to any situation; when you focus on the achievement of a goal, move with a sense of purpose toward its fulfillment, and establish your intent, then solutions or ideas that at one time didn’t seem to exist will just come to you. That’s Inspiration.

Make a Decision to Act

Most people don’t have much difficulty establishing their purpose, or focusing on a goal they would like to achieve. However, when it comes to developing a strong intent, most people fall short. Making a decision to act is a process, and most people stop just short of making that crucial decision to take action. Not for lack of willingness – they certainly want to take action – but for lack of knowledge. They don’t understand the process.

The process of making a decision to take action has three simple steps:

1. Identify the goal to be achieved.
2. Generate a list of ideas; what you could or should do to achieve your goal.
3. Turn your list of what you “could” do into what you “will” do.

Most people stop after the second step and that’s why they can never quite seem to follow through or stick with anything long enough to see it achieved. It seems simple enough, but it’s amazing how many people out there are sitting on a stack of unachieved goals, complete with lists of all the things they could do to achieve them. The only thing standing in the way of action is the completion of their decision making process, to turn what they could do into what they will do.

Based on your desire, to realize what you’ve envisioned, and your mission (purpose) to achieve the goals that support the fulfillment of your vision, establish your intent by asking yourself the following questions:

-What am I willing to do?
-What will I do?
-When will I do it?
-Will I do it for as long as it takes?

Key words: I / WILL / DO

How deeply you desire what you want, how focused you are on achieving your goals, and your determination to act on your intentions (what you will do), all have a profound impact on the quality of your ideas. The more creative and brilliant your ideas become, the more inspiring they will be to you and to others.

George J. Morse
Email: george@coachmorse.com
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