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Finding inspiration from a quote by Pablo Picasso.

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How to Find inspiration.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Where the things that a lot of us look for, as business owners and executives, we look for inspiration on what the next move will be or how to come out to overcome a certain problem.

This quote from Pablo Picasso, I saw this come up and I had to comment on it, he says, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

That is so true.

I had to bring it up here and it should be more of a reminder than anything else.

If you aren’t aware of it, then you need to pay closer attention. Because if you think about all the times that you were inspired, it’s while you were already in motion.

I found that meditation in motion have to go together in some sense. So you have to be able to have perspective, but you can’t have it while doing nothing.

Yeah, I mean, you might be able to achieve something by sitting on the top of a mountain, meditating away from everybody, but you’re going to achieve much more when you’re in the thick of it.

You step back, and are able to pay attention and get inspiration.

In some other form, you have to be in the process. That’s when the greatest pieces are going to come to you is when you’re in the process.

It’s not when you’re away from stress, when you’re in the stress. It’s not when you’re lost in the stress, when you’re totally worked up.

Either depressed or angry or upset, it’s after that it’s when you’re in the muck, but you’re not consumed by it, if that makes any sense.

So you have to be around it, you have to have the stress out here. But if you keep it out of here, inspiration will come, it’s guaranteed and will it won’t come on your time.

It won’t come when you want it.

It’s the thief in the night concept. You know, it shows up when you least expect it.

But you’ll get it because you’re in motion because you’re attempting to go somewhere. Attempting to achieve something. Even if what you’re attempting to achieve and where you’re attempting to go is complete folly.

You will get inspiration on what the next step should be where the next step that you should go. You have to be willing to listen.

That’s the main thing and you can’t expect it to pop up. When you’re doing nothing when you’re nowhere and you have no really sense of journey. If you want to say so, get moving, get active start moving in a direction you think is the right way.

Inspiration will come to slap you around really send you in the right direction. If you pay attention, and you listen. So hopefully that helps.

You know it’s little esoteric ideas. I like to pop out there once in a while and see, see if it helps anybody. If you’re looking for more broad based ideas to kind of encourage inspiration, I recommend my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

It really tosses a whole bunch of different ideas out there to see what’s gonna stick, see what interests you and I also give you other sources that you can look into after this is more of a starting block for some of these ideas, whether you’re familiar with them or not, or consider them for your business before or not.

9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business is all about making yourself so different than even amazon.com can compete with you.

So go get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com We’ll be back tomorrow night.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.