Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’

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

March 20 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, ideas, inspiration | 49 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

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

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

October 16 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: games, happiness, humor, inspiration, linguistics, marketing, poverty, reality, Technology, video | 94 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

August 20 2007 | By Adrian | 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

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

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

December 19 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: creativity, inspiration, muse | 9 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

May 15 2006 | By Adrian | 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

January 26 2006 | By Barbara | Tagged: discontentment, inspiration, success | 1 comment»