Losing your motivation or inspiration is never a fun experience. It’s just something that happens to all of us at least once in our lives. The trick to getting past it is to find something that will help you to get moving again. The last thing you want to do is allow yourself to get stuck in an extended period of the blahs.

One of the things I’m most thankful for is that even though I seem to manage to get myself uninspired more than is probably good for me, it doesn’t usually take me long to find my way back. I just use one of these simple ideas to help me get my inspiration flowing again:

1. Go for a walk, or just sit outside and enjoy nature for awhile. Whenever I’ve feeling really uninspired I head for the river to sit on my favorite rock and just soak up the sun and the fresh air.

2. Listen to music. Turn on the radio or fire up your ipod and listen to your favorite tunes. Get up and dance if the music calls to you. Moving your body to the bead of a great song is an excellent way to shake the cobwebs off your inspiration and get you ready to create again.

3. Draw, paint, or color something. Even if you’re not the world’s greatest artist, just the act of creating something with color can help to release whatever is blocking you. One of my favorite ways to get inspired again is to fire up photoshop and mess around creating patterns and graphics out of old photos.

4. Read something inspirational, such as a biography or a self-help book. Finding out how others have handled their loss of inspiration can do two things for you — reassure you that you’re not alone, and give you more ideas of how to jumpstart your own inspiration.

5. Have a pep talk with yourself. Look in the mirror and talk to yourself. Give yourself some encouragement and remind yourself of all the things you’ve accomplished so far in your life.

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