Inspiration Is Everywhere
You just have to look for it
As fashion designer Paul Smith said, you can find inspiration in everything. It really is true, if you just know how to look, or simply look again. You don’t have to run around, looking at what everybody else tells you is inspiring. It’s around you. In everything. When I was working on my project to publish a poem every day for a year in 2012, I turned finding inspiration into a daily habit. I found poems everywhere I looked. From melting snowmen to rainbows in a fountain to our dog playing with other dogs. I still benefit from that. If the words don’t come, I simply look at the world around me. A plate filled with oysters, a flower in the garden or a fire hydrant standing on the edge of a field.
So, how are you going to find inspiration in everything? My tip would be to practice. Go out and look at the world. A detail of the building in your street, a flower in a garden, the food on your plate. Even if you are not a creative, looking elsewhere for inspiration can work wonders. You will find ideas for solving business challenges you are facing by looking at organisations in other disciplines. Even in nature and the built environment around you. One example I found, comes from marketing. How would you explain how much distance exactly social distancing should mean?
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Sometimes being inspired can be scary, too. In this wonderful TED talk, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about genius, genies and showing up to do your job so inspiration can find you. So, show up and Olé to you.
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