Where do you find your inspiration?
There's
one thing I know.
I can't motivate anyone.
But I can inspire them and in turn they will find their motivation.
And if I know this about others then I know this about myself.
So whenever I am not motivated instead of beating myself up
I seek inspiration.
I comb books...
Listen to reams of music.
READ LYRICS.
I watch movies.
Check out Ted talks....
And I watch live theater
as much as possible.
Last week I was fortunate enough to have been
invited to see Hamilton on Broadway.
Now if you are not into theater you may not know what
Hamilton is...
But it is a show that has take not only New York but the world by storm.
The themes of this show are of the American ideal and the human ideal.
About life, love and LEGACY.
About
GREATNESS...which you may know...is my obsession.
EWWW Diane....
How could I ever find inspiration from show tunes.
I am here to learn to make money.
But before you shut me down...
Maybe check out the soundtrack.
Take a look at the lyrics.
Did I mention this is a RAP MUSICAL???
Yes....Rap Music on Broadway about Alexander Hamilton one of
our
founding fathers....
Crazy...right?
And yet I am OBSESSED.
The show starts with Hamilton as a young immigrant telling us he is not
to miss his shot.
That's how I felt when I met my mentor and the whole internet was
changing and web 2.0 and social media were being born.
I was foreign to all the internet
stuff.
I was a housewife who sold vitamins out of the trunk of my car.
But I could smell opportunity and I would be damned if I missed
the opportunity.
Then the show gets into love...and the things we love for and what is is
like when you are more ambitious than the people you love.
When you feel a PULL that no one else in your life can understand.
I have lived
this my whole life.
I always knew I had something to say but I lived in a world where
people kept telling me to sit down and shut up.
Then a song called History Has It's Eyes On Your talks about the
call to greatness you constantly hear in your head and the fact
that you are creating something that will live beyond you.
By
now you either think I am nuts or you feel a strange attraction
to these themes....
How bout your desire to give your kids everything while as the same
time feeling an obligation to CREATE something.
How do you balance that???
Or how bout when the people around you can't understand why
you're not satisfied even though you are
successful...
When they want you to stop working to do trivial things when
you are trying to DO something...DO something larger than yourself.
When you feel you are on the outside of all your colleagues and that
they can't hear or see you...
When you give in and do things you know you should not do
in order to accomplish
something only to have to live with yourself
afterwards...
And when you lose someone you love so much you feel you will break in half
but you must carry on.
My Lord.
There is so much here.
So much inspiration I sat in tears for the bulk of the show.
So now that I have talked about my latest inspiration bomb...
What's yours?
All I know is that when
motivation lacks it's because inspiration is missing.
Find the inspiration and all of a sudden the work is easy.
TRY IT.
And let me know how you do.
And of course if you are a Hamilton fan...
Let me know and we can GEEK OUT together!
Heart you kiddo.
I know what you can do.
You just need to find the messages that help you do it.
You are magnificent.
And it's about time someone told you
so.
Diane