Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’

What To Do When You Run Out Of Ideas

It’s happened to everyone at one time or another. You’re going along, producing and feeling creative, and then, suddenly, you run out of ideas. You’re stuck. You search high and low for inspiration. You look back on your earlier work, searching through your past ideas, trying to locate your muse, looking for something to trigger a creative explosion. But it’s all for naught. You’re blocked.Regardless of what business you’re in… Continue reading

April 29 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: creativity, entrepreneur, inspiration, small business | 11 comments»

Find Your Inspiration, Jack London’s Way

Jack London once said, "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." He knew what he was talking about, too: London cranked out short stories, novels, essays, plays, poetry and non-fiction at a tremendous rate. To write — and make a living — the way London did, there just isn't the possibility of waiting around for inspiration to strike. The same holds true in… Continue reading

February 12 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: inspiration | 7 comments»

Principles in Perspective: A Review of “The Last Lecture”

The Last Lecture is a book based on an internet sensation, the "Last Lecture" given by computer scientist Randy Pausch at Carnegie-Mellon University. Pausch died tragically of pancreatic cancer in 2008; the principles he discusses in his last lecture (and in a companion lecture on time management, both of which are available on the internet) take on a whole new meaning in light of the fact that they were… Continue reading

January 7 2009 | By Art | Tagged: book, inspiration, last-lecture, randy-pausch, review | 3 comments»

How to Live Artfully

I met someone recently who knows how to live.You know the type: self-possessed, confident, the kind of person who energizes a room. The kind of person who is alive to everything around them, who makes everyone they focus their attention on feel they could do more, they could be more. A natural-born leader who brings out the best in everyone without any apparent effort. Apparently fearless, they inspire by example… Continue reading

December 17 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: art, attention, creativitiy, curiosity, gratitude, inspiration, life, living | 21 comments»

4 Useful Tools No Inspirational Blogger Should Be Without

Photo by Steph L.Tools. We all have 'em. We all use 'em — or at least try to. It's one thing to read a glossy list of "44 hot WordPress plugins!" or "25 ways to look for stock photos", another thing to actually try them all. The best tools are delved into very deeply, and like Thor and his hammer, can at times be… Continue reading

September 30 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: blogger, compfight, inspiration, popurls, quotation, tool, useful, utility, windows-live-writer | 14 comments»

30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity

Recently, we asked the readers what their tips for staying creative were. Sometimes creativity flows from the heavens, but other times, as we all know, it’s like drawing water from a stone. The following are the best tips you gave us.1. Surround yourself with creative people. Hang out with writers, musicians, poets and artists. Often, just being in a creative environment will inspire you and refresh your creative mind.2… Continue reading

March 20 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, ideas, inspiration | 59 comments»

Lifehack.org Readers Respond: What’s Your Inspiration

Last week, I asked lifehack.org readers:

Lots of people are starting to think about the New Year and what they’d like to accomplish. What they could use is a bit of inspiration, so what that in mind: What inspires you?

As always, your answers were insightful and thought-provoking, and pushed a little bit beyond what I had thought I was asking -- forcing me to rethink… Continue reading

January 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, inspiration | 3 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: Inspiration

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer. The following week, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community -- and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This… Continue reading

December 31 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, inspiration, question | 12 comments»

The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World

I believe that a sign of good information is that it makes you think. If reading a book, listening to a lecture or watching a video doesn’t change how you think, it probably isn’t that important. But if you encounter something that forces you to change your views, even if you don’t completely agree with it, you’ve found something valuable.The problem is where do you find these… Continue reading

October 16 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: games, happiness, humor, inspiration, linguistics, marketing, poverty, reality, Technology, video | 110 comments»

A Recipe for Mettle Polish

Mettle 1. n. courage, fortitude, pluck, ardor, verve. 2. on one’s mettle, in the position of being ready to do one’s best.

Metal and mettle both rust if neglected. They lose their shine. They become tarnished and weakened. People who have lost their mettle no longer have sufficient courage or enthusiasm to take on the world and rise above the challenges it brings them. They become dull, apathetic… Continue reading

August 20 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: inspiration, life, living, motivation | no comments»

Learning Entrepreneurship from Albert Einstein

eSoup has written about 5 Einstein quotes that could help entrepreneurs, or anyone in a problem-solving or creative field.They draw upon Einstein's years of battling scientific opposition and critical genius. Wise words you can use as inspiration or guidance.1) "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 2) "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." 3) "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak… Continue reading

May 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, inspiration | 7 comments»

Your Sources of Inspiration

I'm happy group writing projects are getting more popular. Given a specific idea and there are a lot of writers out there with some interesting views.This one comes from InspirationBit.com and has grouped 37 entries from those giving their 2 cents on what inspires them. Many are written for a particular job, photography, blogging etc.; so have a look at what might inspire you.Did you ever feel lost in… Continue reading

May 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: inspiration | 2 comments»

How Do You Woo the Muse?

"I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time." - John Updike

Do you wait for inspiration, or do you go after the muse? Some argue that inspiration can't be coaxed - that it comes when it's damn good and ready. If you're a writer, software developer, designer, artist… Continue reading

December 19 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: creativity, inspiration, muse | 10 comments»

Attaining Breakthrough

Breakthrough demands you push beyond the obvious and the conventional. It's going places you don't think you can reach. It's getting to your limit — then going still further. Continue reading

May 15 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, change, development, education, goal, inspiration, learning, Management, performance, vision | 1 comment»

Balancing Contentment with Inspirational Discontentment

One of the seventeen principles of success in the book Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone is that of "inspirational discontentment." The idea is that a person needs to be just discontented enough with his or her income or standard of living that it inspires them to greater success. At first glance there is a lot of logic in this statement… Continue reading

January 26 2006 | By Barbara | Tagged: discontentment, inspiration, success | 2 comments»