Over the past year I kept hearing regularly that the best way to do things is through “inspired actions”. When a considerable amount of people keep making that same statement, then chances are that there must be some truth in it but … what are inspired actions? To answer that question, I took it one step further by answering that question with another question: what is inspiration? With Google being my best electronic friend, I noticed that all definitions base themselves upon two totally opposite viewpoints: a spiritual one and a practical one. Depending on the type of person you are and what your essential believes are, you might feel related more to the one than the other. How I look at them is maybe an inspiration for you, on how you could have a more intense look at yourself at the stage in your life you are currently in. I personally feel close to both and I know why that is: I am, and we all are, a spiritual creature by nature but along my education and its resulting adult and professional life, that spiritual thinking has been held hostage by what society wants me to think and belief. From the moment I finally grew up, and that must have been somewhere around the age of 50, I managed to get myself out of that society forced mental stranglehold and finally got back to thinking for myself. To think in the way the Australian aboriginals teach it: from your gut and not from your head. To follow your instincts, not someone else’s guidelines or rules. Because of this mindshift, and although still struggling with the weight of my past thinking on my shoulders, I veer myself back to my roots, the spiritual thinking. So, back then to both definitions, and because of what I just mentioned above, I am convinced that both are 100% complementary:
We are always busy with “doing”: “doing” something for work, “doing” something personal, “doing” something for the household … To enable yourself to do the right thing simply stop “doing” for a moment! Allow yourself to do absolutely nothing! Go sit on the couch sipping a cup of coffee or tea and allow your mind to independently look for something to think about rather than constantly feeding it with your daily to-do list. I realized that when my kids told us they were bored, my wife's or my own answer always was: “great, that is the best moment to come up with the most creative ideas on what to play next”. Same applies to us adults: allow your mind to get creative. The subconscious part of your mind will kick into gear and move all the ideas and inspiration that you collected in the past without even noticing it, towards the conscious part of your mind because it doesn’t get blocked anymore by all this “doing”. Suddenly you’ll get the most wonderful ideas “you’ve never thought about before” and put these into action. Inspired action. You’ll get this excited feeling in your gut that it is the right thing to do. That whatever it is, it could work, it will work! You know it will. You don't necessarily know why, but you know! You will suddenly feel the urge to take action again but this time by doing the right thing, not the thing that your environment forced on you. It really is just a good micro example on how the “rat race” works that we all have made ourselves live in: Hurry, go to work, lose time in the traffic queue, do what your boss tells you to do all day without even thinking about it because you have no time for that, hurry, go back home, lose time in the traffic queue again, get the kids from school, quickly help them do their homework, quickly prepare dinner because the laundry and so many other chores that are waiting, hurry with all that because the children have to go to bed, finally dump your tired body and your completely numb mind into the couch to watch a useless television show or the news that is telling you that you should be frightened about the future because “there is so much misery in the world” and then go to bed because early tomorrow morning you will have to hurry again. You could repeat this at will or … you could take a step back and look at yourself and all the others, questioning if all that is the right way to go. It is a choice that you have always had but you forgot that you even had it … every single moment of your life! Allow yourself that brief moment of perceived luxury and you will be surprised by the overload of inspiration you will get to do things otherwise, to do things through inspired actions! It will bring so much more value in your life and that of others! Wishing you all the best for a super fantastic 2018, may it turn out to be a wonderful collection of inspired actions! Upwards and onwards – The Happy Dadpreneur
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