070: Don’t Wait For Inspiration

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Feeling uninspired can keep us from going after our goals and dreams, leaving us dreading our work, and worse - keeping us from taking a single step to begin. I want to share a secret with you, though… it’s not about finding inspiration, it’s about being motivated. I’ll explain how those two feelings are different and the surprising way boundaries can set you free. We’ll use 5 different methods to create motivation so that you begin to make real progress and feel challenged and energized to keep going forward.

What’s In This Episode:

Working within boundaries to increase freedom & inspiration
Why it’s more about your need for motivation, not inspiration
Measuring your progress to create awareness and challenge yourself
Decrease your risk of burnout with 5 ways you can boost motivation
Shifting your uninspired, unmotivated mindset with small steps

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.2	Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.
0:14.6	Season 6 is all about turning your stumbling blocks into starting blocks.
0:19.0	You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her
0:21.9	free Facebook group at Incwellpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:28.8	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of
0:34.9	Inquell Press, and this is episode 70. Today's episode is brought to you by
0:40.8	Blue Apron, and I'll be sharing later on in the show how you can get a discount on your very first box.
0:47.2	I want to start talking, though, about today's topic, which is waiting for inspiration.
0:53.2	Now, as you know, season six is all about turning our stumbling blocks into our starting blocks.
0:59.1	And this is definitely a big one.
1:01.4	Have you ever had a big idea?
1:04.1	But then you just don't even want to start?
1:06.8	You're waiting for that rush of inspiration that just never seems to come.
1:11.9	And because you feel uninspired, you think, I can't move forward.
1:17.0	And we say, it just must not be the right time or this idea isn't any good.
1:22.3	If it was, I'd be motivated.
1:25.3	So we wait and we wait and we wait for a sign thinking that at some point
1:30.6	miraculously inspiration will strike like a bolt of lightning. That's all we need, a little bit of
1:37.7	motivation. But here's the hard truth. We don't need motivation to start moving forward. It's true. You can't force inspiration and
1:46.7	motivation, but too often we blame our inability to work on a mental block and we just quit to go
1:54.3	do something else without returning to that work again. And the problem with quitting or taking a lot of
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