Searching for that elusive inspiration? You might be stuck in a rut and need to find a way to climb out of it. Maybe there is too much negativity in your life. What kinds of actions can you take to wake up and shake yourself out of hibernation? You can be inspired by implementing empowering action words in your daily life.
Inspiration can be fickle. Some days it’s giving and plentiful, and others it’s hard to find. But inspiration doesn’t have to feel like you’re searching for something that’s out of reach.
The trick is to pick empowering action words that summon positive emotions when you read or hear them. They are not just buzzwords that you add to a resume. To work, they have to be associated with feelings that will motivate you to stand up and take action. Keep a journal so you can jot your ideas down on paper. How will you implement them and use them in your life to bring about great, positive change?
To be inspired, designate one day or one week for each keyword. Get creative and craft some visual representations of these keywords. You can create artwork, frame it and hang it up on the wall to remind yourself to do these actions everyday.
To get you started, below are five empowering action words that you can start implementing right away to be inspired:
1. Discipline
If you are ever going to learn something new, it takes discipline, which means you show up and do the work. It takes self-control not to give up and move onto the next project, but to keep at it and be persistent to achieve results.
Just like in physical exercise, training yourself to do those reps will make you stronger by developing the right muscles. It’s the same with any endeavour, you will only get better with practice. Discipline will inspire you to reach for your goals.
2. Flourish
Flourish is another empowering action word. You want to find ways to grow and develop talents that are useful. To flourish, you need an environment that is conducive to growth, like keeping a plant alive with sunshine, soil and water. Continue to demonstrate discipline and work at getting better at the skill that you want to develop.
You will reach the point where things are happening and you are attaining your goals. This is the time to shine and show everyone what you are capable of. It is empowering to get better at what you, and to develop new skills.
3. Encourage
You have the courage to do something you’ve never done before. Set aside self-doubt and negativity, and recognize your achievements. You will need support, so it helps to have a supportive community who will encourage you to continue to do your best work. Your community will lend you the support you need to grow confident in your work.
Encouragement is essential to keep you motivated in your personal growth. If you ask anyone how they were able to succeed, the answer you’d often get is that they didn’t do it alone, they had someone encouraging them along the way, which kept them on track and inspired them to reach their goals.
4. Nourish
Nourish is another inspiring, empowering action word. Every intention needs to be fed to sustain growth. To keep going, you need to pace yourself and not burn out. It’s not fun to start a project with a lot of enthusiasm only to find out that you’re burning out before you even finish it.
Nourishing your growth includes doing things that will keep the inspiration going. Pause here and take a moment to remind yourself that you are doing this because you have goals and ambitions that are worthy of accomplishing.
5. Socialize
I put this in here because some people are introverted and need encouragement to get out there and network or make new connection.
Social isolation is a problem. Exchanging more than ten words each day with another human being can take some effort, but it’s not impossible. In the past, being an introvert meant that you’d rather not have to put up with the quirks that other people bring, but friendship is valuable. As in the keyword above, all friendships need nourishing. Socialization is an empowering motivator for inspiration.
Final Words
Further steps you can take to get inspired is to create mind maps. By going a step further, you can create phrases from these words, connecting them together to build an action plan.
Creating vision boards, a collage of photos and words that remind you why you have a desire to accomplish something, can be useful to remind you of the ways you can be inspired.
Don’t lose sight of your goal. With a lot of busy-ness going on in your life, you may forget that you have goals you want to accomplish. The vision board can be a daily reminder that you’re reaching for something, and that success is within your grasp.
When you first started on your journey, maybe you were stuck and you haven’t taken any concrete steps towards your goal or didn’t know where to start. Inspiration is out there for you to take, the way to do this is to look for inspiration in unexpected places.
Make these action words part of your vocabulary. Words are powerful, they can change your mindset in positive ways.
Focus on your empowering action words each day, every little step counts and gets you further to attaining your goal.
Repeat the empowering action words everyday to weave them into your life. If you encourage inspiration to show its face with a few empowering action words there’s a lot more that you are capable of than you think.