There is no innovation without inspiration

Taking up the phrase “Inspiration is for artists”, the following exciting causal chain can be used to prove that inspiration is a business tool:

1. There are many very successful artists with a business worth millions.
2. All these artists always claim to have been inspired in their works.
3. So there is no successful work without inspiration.
4. Without successful work, there is no successful million-dollar business.
5. Ergo: Without inspiration, there is no successful business.

Inspiration can be practiced and learned. Perception, sensitization of all senses and mindfulness play a decisive role in this training.

Some first concrete exercises

Doing the unusual and having fun
Do something new every day this week, something you have never done before. For example, take the train to work instead of driving. Or have a fresh pizza delivered to your home instead of baking one from the freezer. Or comb your hair into a plait instead of blow-drying it straight as usual. Whatever you can think of. It should be something completely new.

Strolling instead of always walking fast
Change your pace. First determine how fast or slow you normally walk and then change it, walk slower if you normally tend to run, walk briskly if you normally tend to creep. Most people walk very fast, almost run. Are you one of them? Then get to know the qualities of strolling. It used to be called pleasure walking – walk with pleasure, try it.

Change old habits and try something new.
Do you always take the same route to work? Do you always park in the same parking lot? Do you always shop at the same bakery? Yes, then change this habit in just one place today. Turn off one street earlier, ask your neighbor for her favorite bakery and buy there. Do one thing differently than usual today. It has been proven that such changes – however small they may seem – form the basis for larger changes. Start small.

Think about yourself, always and everywhere
Hang up positive pictures/postcards, e.g. on the fridge or bathroom mirror. Have you been wishing for a happy, fulfilled life for a long time? Or a sports car, a husband and two well-behaved children, a house in the country, a great job, etc.? Yes? Then draw your heart’s desire on a piece of paper today, make a collage or cut out a photo – that’s your future! Hang this picture in the kitchen, in the bathroom, next to your PC – then you will always know what your future will look like.

Experience the simple
Leave out everything superfluous today, reduce your activities to only those things that really need to be done now and those that are fun and good for you. You will probably find that you have gained time. Time to enjoy – the sun’s rays on your face, the birdsong in the morning, the wind rustling through the leaves in the evening.

Laugh for no reason
It doesn’t matter to our brain whether we laugh out of joy or whether we do it for no reason! Laughing for no reason is healthy and lifts the spirits. Try it out. In the shower, for example, use the shower head as a microphone and belt out your favorite song, then laugh, which relaxes you and puts you in a good mood.

Even more inspiration: our book recommendation

In the book Inspiration on the job, I have compiled 60 exercises for effective inspiration, which also pay particular attention to the innovation and business accounts. “Inspiration on the job”

… dissolves your idea blockades.
… finds new perspectives and ideas.
… cures your idea burnout.
… disrupts your usual way of thinking.
… leads to radically different ideas.
… improves your work-think balance.
… inspires you.

164 pages full of inspirational impulses for everyone! … and each page is individual, surprising and designed with love!

A great deal of pressure to succeed, fear of change and, subsequently, an unimaginative work-thinking balance are spreading among many people. This is exactly where “Inspiration on the job” should help – directly, immediately, intravenously and with lots and lots of fun.

Inspiration from Google

It’s also exciting to simply go online and google “inspiration”. You will see how big, colorful and exciting this topic is. Here you will also come across interesting quotes about inspiration:

• Inspiration is never real if you perceive it as such. True inspiration arises unnoticed and is only recognized in its full significance after some time. Samuel Butler the Elder (1612-1680)
• The deeper the silence, the greater the inspiration. Unknown
• Inspiration comes after perspiration. Unknown
• Return to inspiration. Inspiration, pure instinct, the poet’s only motive. The logical poetry is unbearable to me. Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish playwright, lyricist and dramatist
• All great people imagine that they are more or less inspired. Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French moralist
• The inspiration! Hahaha! This is an old romantic idea without any sense or reason. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), French sculptor, his strongest artistic impressions came from the works of Michelangelo
• The soul breathes through the spirit, the spirit breathes through inspiration, and this is the breathing of the Godhead. Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), German writer, real name Anna Elisabeth von Arnim, sister of the philosopher Clemens Brentano
• Inspiration begins when we know enough to understand nothing. Billy (*1932), real name Walter Fürst, Swiss aphorist
• Solitary contact with nature is the first source of inspiration. You can hear sounds of sweetness and terror that you would never hear in a library. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American clergyman, teacher, philosopher and essayist