My lack of inspiration
Where do your ideas come from? When was the last time you had a sudden lack of inspiration?
In this episode, I share why I'm feeling a lack of inspiration and where I may need to go to get that inspiration back.
Website: ericavoell.com
Transcript
Hey there.
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:Welcome back to unfolding.
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:I am Erica Voell and I'm a
Confidence and Well-being coach.
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:And I use tools like Human Design coaching
and Reiki to help women in midlife say
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:no to what drains them because then
they start to trust their decisions
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:and understand their unique strengths.
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:And together we clear old patterns so
that they can make confident decisions
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:and start putting themselves first.
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:I believe your Human Design is
your roadmap and your permission
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:to do things differently.
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:And confidently.
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:This episode is a real slice of my life
right now, and we are talking, I mean, we
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:talk about the messy middle all the time.
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:We don't talk about
these bumpy beginnings.
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:We have this growth and we make this
big change and we go and we're like.
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:Ah.
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:And then we hit this mini
plateau and we're like, oh, okay.
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:I thought this was gonna be different.
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:I thought I would get to this point
and things would be so much better.
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:And there's this idea of how you'll feel.
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:And when you reach this dream, it's.
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:It's amazing, and then you get there
and you're like, oh, I'm here and hello.
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:And most of you know that I
left my full-time position
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:at the library recently.
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:It's actually been one month, and I
love working from home and I love my new
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:job, and I love being a full-time coach.
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:What I didn't realize with that I was
going to struggle with inspiration.
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:I'm writing my Human Design lessons for
my clients and they are so much fun.
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:I love recording them,
but this is stuff I know.
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:It's like I don't have to
come up with new material.
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:What I'm struggling with is like my
newsletters and my podcast, which
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:is why this podcast is gonna be on a
bit of a summer break, or it will be
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:off and on until August because you
know when the inspiration hits i'll
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:write something and when my kid goes
back to school in August, I have a
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:feeling that things will be shifting
a little bit 'cause I'll be having
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:to figure out a new working schedule.
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:When I tried to sit down and
write an episode a few weeks
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:ago, I had this aha moment.
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:I love my aha moments.
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:I realized that many of my newsletters
and the podcast episodes were actually
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:written while I was sitting at a
public service desk at the library.
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:Yes, I love working from home.
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:I love the freedom I have now,
but ever since I left the library,
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:I have not had many ideas.
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:I had this vision that when I left the
library, my ideas would be flowing so
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:freely because I wasn't stuck in a job
that I hated, and it left me feeling
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:drained every single day that I was there.
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:But the reality is the
ideas aren't flowing.
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:I'll get an idea when I hear a podcast
episode or when I'm creating a lesson.
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:I'll think, oh, I wanna use this
as a future podcast episode.
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:Or I'll go on a walk and I'll start to
make some voice notes, but then I'll
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:write them down and they start to fizzle
and I'll think, oh, that's a great idea,
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:and it's writing and it's three, four
paragraphs in, and then I lose my focus
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:and it veers off into something completely
different or something even weird.
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:It's like this weird stream of
consciousness tangents that don't really
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:make sense, and it's made me realize.
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:That, those ideas that came
while I was on the public service
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:desk, six different desks.
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:These were where my
inspirations were coming.
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:I was around other people.
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:I was at a desk near the public computers
is where a lot of my letters came from.
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:And people were there sitting on
the computers, they were working.
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:They were doing whatever
they were working on.
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:And I noticed that because I have an
undefined head center in Human Design,
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:I know that I get inspiration from other
people, places I'm at, people I'm around.
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:And little did I know
that that inspiration.
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:Was coming from sitting at a job where I
was miserable and draining me every day.
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:Not to say that I don't have
inspiration, you know, from people
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:in my house and my dog, but I
live with them every single day.
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:And so I'm used to their energy and
I didn't really notice their energy.
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:And it's also summer, so you
know I think a lot of us, our
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:brains go on summer vacation.
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:My kid is home almost all the time
except for a few camps where she's at.
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:My husband is at work and he is
still getting inspiration because
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:his artwork seems to be going and
it seems to be almost nonstop.
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:So I was at a coworking session for my
business coaching group and I told them
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:I was struggling with this, and they gave
me this idea to go back to the library.
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:To go back to the place where I did not
enjoy being, I did not enjoy working
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:there, but little did I know that a
lot of my ideas were coming from there.
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:So I'm going to go back to the library.
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:I'm going to go back to get ideas
for my business to support this
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:job that I love because going to
coffee shops it's great, but there's
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:not been enough inspiration there.
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:I don't think there's
enough movement in people.
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:I can borrow ideas from people when I'm
there, but that energy I don't think
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:is quite moving as much as it does when
I'm at the library, because there are
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:people coming in and out constantly.
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:Maybe there's ideas from the books, the,
you know, the energy from the books.
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:There's also a myriad of ages of
people coming into the library, which
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:I think it changes things for me.
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:But I know at coffee shops, people tend
to sit down and work for hours, and
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:I imagine that maybe the flow of the
energy of people is what helped me.
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:But whatever it was, there was something
happening that I am now missing in my
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:new work situation, in my new setup.
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:So I'm going to figure out where to get
my ideas and to form them into podcasts.
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:And the podcast will probably be a
bit more sporadic than in the past.
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:And as someone who tends to tie
their worth to my productivity.
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:(Thank you open Ego Center).
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:I am learning to be okay with not
being productive all the time.
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:I have plenty of things to work on.
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:I have lessons for clients and I love that
I get to meet with more clients now, and
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:I know that the inspiration will come.
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:It always does.
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:I just need to really settle into
a new way of working, a new way of.
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:Being, and we all have seasons of change
in our lives, and giving ourselves
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:grace can be the hardest thing.
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:It's one of the key elements in my Human
Design to give myself and others grace.
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:So I wanna give a special shout
out to the members of the Hive.
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:They are part of my business group
that I am a part of, and they gave
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:me this idea for this podcast, see
inspiration from other people, and it
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:sparked me to write this whole episode
right after we got off the call.
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:So shout out to the Hive members.
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:And I would love to hear from you
where your inspiration comes from.
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:Think about it like if you look at
your Human Design chart, that open
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:head center, that top triangle,
you are getting inspiration from
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:other people in other places.
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:So if you're feeling stuck, I invite you
to get out, go places, maybe even go back
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:and sit you know where you were, didn't
enjoy it, but the ideas were flowing.
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:So I hope you enjoyed this episode, and
until next time, I hope you're doing well.
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:I hope you are doing things this summer
that are bringing you so much joy.
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:Have a good one.
