Welcome to the second episode of the mini-series on Balanced Business.
Today we are talking about dreaming and inspiration,
The seed of the business,
The ideal stage,
The moment when the wonder is born.
I have personally experienced inspiration that led me to create businesses,
Projects,
Undertakings,
And I can tell you,
This is an incomparable joy when you just imagine you are laying down in bed,
About to sleep,
And an idea just hits you and calls you to wake up and to go to your desk and to start drawing some images or writing down some words.
And this is a power of the creative life force itself streaming through your very being,
Attaining this state is a dream in itself,
But how to do it?
I have been observing the patterns of my own inspiration as I've always been granted this gift,
Which is a blessing,
Which I am grateful for.
Since I was very little,
Since kindergarten,
I remember always having an idea of what I want to do in life.
And as much as these ideas changed over time,
There was always this drive behind them.
And I saw at the same time my classmates in school,
In the university,
Just people my age around me or older people,
Most of them being uninspired,
Lacking this clear vision,
The force that is driving them forward on some mission.
And I've always thought that this must be so demotivating.
I've had some periods of life that I also didn't have any purpose,
I felt stuck,
But there was never a time that I was without a dream.
Sometimes I was more connected to it,
Sometimes less,
But there is always this power.
So now I'm trying to share it through my personal story,
Through my observation.
And what I've understood is that these ideas always come to me in a place of safety.
When I was little,
I had a childhood full of love and accommodating my creativity with respect to my mind,
To my ideas.
And this is the kind of environment you want if you are to receive the genuine inspiration.
Because inspiration comes from your highest self,
From this whatever is the most above and beyond.
And if you want to reach to that height,
You need a really safe launching point,
You need this ground that is supporting you so that you can jump to the very sky,
You know.
And the thing is that when you really feel good,
You can sort of rehearse the state of being aligned and connected with your purpose.
So that's why it's so important to have fun and play games and just awaken your childish nature.
And the trick here is that when we are adults,
We are so stressed and we don't always feel safe.
So I want to be a bit more specific on how to feel safe with yourself,
Even if you are struggling with some adult issues.
For me,
There is always a personal space at home that is creating this feeling of safety.
And I think that it can be created with limited resources as well,
Because I've done it in a rented apartment where I've been staying only for some half a year and just buying some cheaper or even taking some furniture from some ads in the internet.
The lighting is very important.
And the sound,
If you can afford just some small speaker that can give you the pleasure of bathing in your favorite music,
In a music that makes you feel safe and cared for,
That would definitely contribute.
Some soft light,
Creating like a romantic date atmosphere for yourself,
Maybe some candles every evening and doing something that you really like.
So these moments of connection with yourself are necessary to make your nervous system at peace,
Your mind grounded and come to this state of being and receiving that creates the conditions for the inspiration to come.
This is one element.
And the second element that I mentioned are games,
Creativity,
Just being in something that you enjoy.
So not the kind of creativity when you show up to do your work every day and sit in front of this blank piece of paper trying to create something new and original,
But the kind of creativity that is spontaneous,
You know,
Talking on the phone with a friend and doodling on the piece of paper or laying out your CV in an online graphic editor to make it more beautiful to add maybe some icons and patterns there,
Playing with colors,
Playing with your personal branding,
Choosing words,
Creating a mind map,
Or maybe it is something physical,
Maybe it is painting,
Dancing,
Whatever makes you feel alive and joyful and out of the routine.
These things are obvious,
But when you do them sincerely without the expectation that okay,
I will show up for this practice of joy for one hour now,
I will do it for a week and then after a week I get my next big business idea,
No,
This is not going to happen,
Right?
But you do need to trust and to nourish yourself and then the ideas will come.
So the best advice,
The biggest wisdom that I have gathered from I'd say 20 plus years of being a dreamer and having a drive is that a true inspiration is given to you,
It is never taken by you,
It is given and when it comes,
It comes and it is so overwhelming,
It is so recognizable and true and powerful that it will compensate immediately in this very first second,
It will compensate for all the time that you've invested in waiting patiently for it,
So really catch the moments of enthusiasm.
If you haven't felt inspired in a longer time,
Catch the moments of enthusiasm in your daily practices as small as they can be and let them grow,
Nourish them and at some point and hopefully you will get the real deal and it will feel like this blast of lightning,
You will know it,
It's like falling in love and the thing is that being a sacred gift,
Inspiration comes from this higher power,
Whatever it is for you,
You need to be connected with it.
Of course,
People who don't have connection with higher power also get incredible business ideas but if we are talking about conscious business,
Business that is nourishing your soul and not only your pocket,
Then my perspective,
My take on it and my offering and invitation for you is to let go of your ambition to shape the world into something that you think will be better and instead allow yourself to be the receiver,
Concentrate on yourself,
On making your personality so aligned with what feels right for you,
What feels noble and good and joyful and true that this divine power will see you as the worthy vessel for the sacred gift of inspiration.
I hope you find some practical takeaways from this talk.
I thank you for joining and we'll hear each other at the next session.
Please leave comments if you have any questions,
Suggestions or additions to this and I do hear your souls in every word that is given to me when I deliver these talks and I'm grateful for you being here and sharing the space with me.
