As the summer passes by, we enter the much colder and darker fall season, which can be a time where we begin to lose inspiration. Three business professionals share their wisdom on the best and easiest ways to find inspiration this autumn, so you can enhance your own business.
1) Change up your routine
Oliver David of Green in Black and White says, a really great way to find some inspiration as the season changes is to change up your personal routine. It can be eye opening to do things differently in your day, as you are forcing yourself to change your perspective by changing up your routine. If you normally come home after your 9-5 and just eat and go to bed, instead try to do more with your day.
You can run errands, go see a friend or take yourself out to a movie. This change in routine can help you to feel more energized and give you the inspiration you need in your day to day life which can help you personally and professionally.
2) Help your community
Helping your community by volunteering, or as a small business teaming up with other small businesses, you can really make a difference. This is also a great way to find inspiration as you are taking a look into someone else’s life. This might encourage you to find other ways you can help around the community and even collaborate with other like minded individuals to raise money or awareness surrounding a topic you are passionate about.
3) Connect with new people
Networking is a major way to find inspiration for your business as other business people tend to have a lot of wisdom and helpful advice that can help you to step up your game. It helps to attend networking events or connect with people via LinkedIn or other business social media platforms.
These connections can lead to some great business collaborations that can benefit both parties and help you to get inspired to try new things for your business which can help with its success, suggests Anne Glass the head of school at MUSE Academy.
4) Learn something new
When we are looking for inspiration, we often do so because we are in a rut. When learning something new whether it’s a skill, a language or even how to play an instrument, we take ourselves out of that slump because we are focusing our energy somewhere else. The lessons we learn can also translate into our everyday lives and help us to be more open minded and find inspiration in the most unlikely of places.
5) Read blog posts or books from inspirational people
As the months become colder, we tend to stay inside more which means we partake in activities like reading much more. So why not read blog posts and books written by inspirational people? Doing so can help us to find the motivation to shake up our business plan and take some risks to help it become a success.
There are many successful people out there who struggled with the same things most business owners struggle with, and reading about their mistakes and journey can help us to feel inspired to change things around.
6) Disconnect
The CEO of Dylan Universe Comics Dylan Schwartz says, sometimes when we need to find inspiration, we need to go back to basics. We are often over-stimulated from technology and it can cause us to lose sight of our own passions and sources of inspiration because we are too wrapped up in other people’s lives.
It helps to take breaks from the online world and to instead get outside, read, do a puzzle, plant a garden, play with our kids, etc. Disconnecting is a helpful way to reconnect with ourselves and find out what really inspires us, which can help a business greatly.
