Life Begins at Inspiration

Life changes from third gear to overdrive when you wake up inspired instead of motivated.  What is the difference?

When we are young we are offered dessert if we finish our dinner. We are offered a prize for good grades from our parents. College becomes the motivation for good grades in high school. The boss offers a bonus or the ability to keep our jobs for reaching the company goals.

Happiness occurs when we become rich.

These are all good. They lead to good things. What happens when we don’t reach our goals as fast as we like or live up to other’s expectations or don’t become who we wanted to be or if there is not the big bang at the end of the achievement?  How much frustration do people live with for hitting snags in their plans?

How do we feel when others have things we don’t and realize we have to work harder to get what we want? How come someone else has better than what we have or bigger and our next goal is to get something that is better and bigger? Isn’t that how most people spend their day dreams; pining for more?

Isn’t there a saying that “he wins who dies with the most toys?

I listened to a speaker explain how quantum physics explains successful practices.  Most people do not achieve their dreams because they are always trying. Motivation is what keeps us trying.

Success is determined by our intention. If we intend to have a result, time is the only separation; the outcome is certain. It is a combination of vision, will, and commitment. There is no quitting.

Inspiration is the act of  being instantly. Inspiration is the declaration that I already am. There is no need to try, there is no need for a pay off. The act of being is the payoff and the act of declaring I am is already the goal. Now you get the enjoyment of expressing yourself from already being the goal.

You, of course, see the disconnect. If you wanted to be the office manager or the first string quarterback, how could you now say that you are, when you are not?

And that is why you have to make the shift out of living in the box to living what I call outside the box. Living in the box is living for all the things that require motivation or goals; the things you are trying to be or achieve.

Inspired people are already living what they want to be and they are expressing it. The act of being what they want to be is the end. It is happiness. They get to live everyday being what they want to be. The act of expressing it is their pay off and joy.

It might require sacrifices and courage to move from the inside box to outside the box. But you will either experience your joy now or realize later you missed it. What do I mean?

Carlos Burle is one of the founders of the World Big Surf Tournament where people get points for riding the biggest waves. I am talking about the 50 to 100 foot waves. He started as a young surfer and realized that is all he ever wanted to be. He did what ever he had to do to keep surfing. There were hard times and struggles but the fact he was a surfer for life was never in doubt.

Van Gogh was a painter. He starved all his life, but the fact he was a painter was never in doubt. We could say the same for a Mozart, Rembrant,  and other well known artists and personalities.

You know people who are expressing what they are by what they do. There is a difference between living in the box and outside the box. It is a declaration.  Peyton Manning and Eli Manning are motivated to win the Super Bowl, but is there any doubt that they are anything but quarterbacks and have been all their lives?

Do you wake up thinking that today you will be expressing who you are or are you  trying to reach a goal to get a great payoff? Are you trying to be or are you already? Are you working toward or are you expressing who you are?

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