A Swift Kick In the Pants

I had a phone call yesterday with someone I was talking with for the first time. After getting to know each other a little, the conversation turned to me and the blog. Seems as though he had heard some pretty positive things about me and came here, to the blog, to check me out.

He read through posts from the past few months and do you know what he said? He said something to the effect that my reputation was obviously not built on what I've written recently. Now, I don't have the exact words, I was a little stunned to capture it word for word, but the message was clear. When I say stunned, don't hear that in a taking offense kind of way at all. He was articulating what I already knew, but needed to hear. How'd he do that?!

While I have been looking into the new year, my writing has dropped off. It has. I lost a bit of inspiration somewhere along the line. My posts were "light" and in some cases, I was posting to fill the space. In one sense I knew what I was doing and in another, I had no idea. We talked about me setting time to write regularly, recapturing depth and getting back to what I know. You could say it is blogging 101 or writing basics. 

I say it was a gift.

Inspiring Words

The following words came across in my Twitter stream the other day. I can't retweet without cutting out words and that would be an injustice. So, without further ado, here are inspriring words from TalentSynch aka Susan Burns. Enjoy! 

Just like sunshine & water enable plants to bloom, social media allows voices to emerge & social networking enables relationships to blossom

How To Inspire Others When You Are Uninspired

You are engaged, tooling along, whistling while you work and then, without warning, psh, it happens. Just like that, you've lost your inspiration.

You begin to wonder. Where did you last see it? What were you doing when you lost it? When did you first notice it was missing? Was it really there one minute and gone the next or was it a long, slow leak?

You've been there before, I've been there before and we will be there again. Not only can self-motivation be a challenge in this frame of mind, so can inspiring others. That's a problem and it's a problem worth solving. I set out to solve it right here in this very space.

I carried my Modo & Modo black Moleskine journal around with me. I wrote, I erased, doodled, I cut, I pasted, I pondered and I wondered, "how do you inspire others when you are uninspired?"

I got nothing.

How about you?