Instead of waiting for inspiration, do something …

Not inspired?

Need a little inspiration to get you rolling into your work, craft, art, project, or whatever you’re doing?

One of the worst things you can do is just sit and wait for inspiration to magically arrive and plop itself in you.

Instead of waiting to be inspired before acting, act! That’s advice supported by Ernest Newman, the English music critic and muiscologist that Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes as “the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century.” Newman noted:

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day in his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.”

Inspiration rarely comes from idleness, instead do something, start something, engage in some way and you’ll likely soon discover your action will eventually set off a spark of inspiration that you can fan into something greater.

Scotty