Inspiration begins as motivating external factors which cause you to create new ideas, products or actions. Inspiration can come in a variety of ways. Every day you are inspired by something in your personal life. That could be watching the sunrise from your kitchen window, hearing the laughter of your children as they play, or reading a favorite quote on your office wall each day. Any number of these types of things can help inspire new and creative ideas in your mind.

Our minds are constantly working to find new ways to learn and thrive as humans. Inspiration then becomes a very necessary part of who we are. Inspiration is a vital part of realizing our potential.

Below I would like to give you a list of 3 ways which inspiration can help boost creativity and give you fresh ideas to create work from.

3 Ways Inspiration Can Boost Your Creativity

#1. Familiarity enables inspiration- If you are familiar with an object or a place, your chances of finding inspiration are much higher than it would be with an unfamiliar item. Even if you are looking at new objects, reading a new book, looking at a new piece of artwork, your brain is searching for familiarity within that piece. Familiarity helps you to connect to that object, written word or piece if art. Connection then causes you to create something new out of that familiar place or feeling.

Look through old photos, grab your favorite colors and create a painting or drawing using them, take a walk in your favorite park, listen to a familiar and favorite song, visit family. All these actions will find you becoming inspired to create new things from these familiar moments.

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#2. Unblocking our minds to be inspired- Often in the busy days of life we tend to get blocked up creatively. We need inspiration to continue to be creative and generate new ideas. Ways to unblock are taking a walk in nature, picking flowers, taking a walk in the city, people watch, doodle and sketch, listen to music, learn a new skill. Study closely the objects you find, the places you go and the people you meet. All these actions will help unblock your mind in order to start creating fresh work. This way of unblocking is helpful in all fields of creative action.

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#3. Inspiration comes From Realizing Potential– Potential can be found in many things from a plastic pop bottle to a page of random musings in your journal. Realizing that potential lies within everything helps to keep the flow of inspiration coming into your life. You have to learn to see with the eyes of potential. What can that plastic bottle become? What can those words in your journal become? What are the possibilities within daily life around you? When you learn to question and dig deeper in this way, inspiration will continually pour into and out of your life.

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We Are Vessels Of Inspiration

We as creative human beings are meant to be vessels of inspiration. Inspiration is a cycle of ideas, creative expression and learning. I hope that you will use these three actions to kindle the fire of inspiration within your heart and mind. May it enhance your creative ideas and produce expressions that will help you learn and grow beyond your expectations.

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