Discover how to effortlessly infuse your every day with inspiration
Inspiration can emerge from unexpected sources and surprising places. By practicing mindfulness and being fully present in your daily experiences, you can unlock its transformative power. By staying receptive to the world around you, noticing the potential for inspiration in even the smallest details, and actively engaging in meaningful conversations and connections, you'll create abundant opportunities for inspiration to emerge in unexpected and enriching ways throughout your day.
Here is your Daily Inspiration Guide with 18 practical steps and supporting real-life stories as examples to show you how to redesign your morning, afternoon, and evening routines for daily inspiration. Follow this guide, and rather than needing to actively seek inspiration everyday, you'll invite inspiration to organically flow into your everyday life.
Let's begin redesigning your day for a more inspired and fulfilling existence.
START YOUR DAY WITH MORNING INSPIRATION ...
1. Wake-up to something that inspires you
Simple changes to your morning routine can bring more balance, joy and peace into your life. Start by making sure you're inspired by the first thing you see and hear in the morning.
2. Take 2 minutes to be still and connect
A Morning Gal | Story of Morning Gratitude | By Annmarie Ragukonis | Inspiring Story #115
Take a moment to be still, feel your body, listen to your surrounds. Be present and connect. Annmarie demonstrates how she does this in her morning routine. Read More
3. Include prayer/meditation/gratitude in your morning practice
Danielle Hayden shares her unique gratitude practice. Will you be forever changed as she was? Read more ...
4. Find an exercise that you enjoy to help maintain your physical & mental health
She can't think, eat or sleep until, one morning, she is called to rise with the sun and run. Read more ...
100 pounds overweight, while battling stage 3 breast cancer Patricia knew she had a challenge ahead. What she achieves is remarkable. The hope she passes on, invaluable. Read more ...
6. Bring more of what you love into your daily routine
Do this exercise to discover how to create the life you desire by introducing more of what you love into your daily activities. Read more ...
7. Create an environment where your best self can emerge …
Do this exercise to discover your ideal environment, then take steps to create that environment that is going to inspire your life every day. Read more ...
8. Stay present and connected (rather than moving through your day on 'auto-pilot')
Don’t let the beauty in your ordinary day become so familiar that you just stop experiencing it. Today, as you check off your list, do your errands, take care of your loved ones … fully feel into what you are experiencing. Read more ...
9. Create a Good Things Jar
Keri Harty's “Good Things Jar" is like a jar of bottled hope. The little messages remind her and her family that we can still expect good things to come our way, even during the most difficult times. Create your own Good Things Jar. Read more ...
10. Explore your hidden talents & creative inclinations
Award-winning photographer, Susan Greeff, shares a heartwarming story about a Surma boy who teaches her a powerful lesson about connection, creativity and the most important thing in life. Read more ...
11. Give & connect with others as you go about your day
What would happen if, when we met someone, we were able to focus all our attention on that person? Read more ...
12. Stay curious (rather than Judgemental) as you encounter people with different lifestyle choices & viewpoints to yours
Instead of judging others who look different to us, Emily's story invites us to be open minded and express curiosity about the colorful stories that lie beneath the surface of our skin. Read more ...
13. Write yourself future notes of hope to help you during difficult times
Future Note of Hope by Keri Harty | How to Stay Hopeful During Difficult Times | Inspiring Story #98
In this beautiful story, Keri Harty shares her family secret for getting through a difficult season in your life. Incorporate this practice into your Daily routine. Read more ...
14. Stay Motivated – discover what uniquely motivates you and incorporate that into Your daily life
When you know what keeps you uniquely inspired and motivated, you'll find it easier to stay on the path of your intentions throughout the day, the months and entire year... Read more ...
CREATE INSPIRATIONAL EVENINGS
15. Turn off the news. Switch off devices. Do something to refresh your soul.
Flick off the television and devices. Change your perspective and be inspired by all the wonder going on around you. Read more ...
16. Watch an inspiring movie, read an inspiring book, listen to an inspirational Ted Talk
17. Write new 'Sparkling Moments' into your next day
There’s magic in a pen. As you write your desires, your pen takes those dreams resting in your heart and transfers them on to the page. The words on the page become physical, active symbols bridging the inner world of your imagination to the physical reality of your outer world … making your dreams one step closer to fruition. Read more ...
18. Sign up for better stories and engage with other people who want to live a beautiful daily inspired life …
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My beautiful Karletta, what a lovely anthology collection of precious advice! I am looking forward to going over all the stories. So grateful for this amazing space! Thank you!
wonderful Luna … hope you enjoy. Grateful for you. xo