When we are in thought we look down
When thought is in us we look up
Where do thoughts and ideas come from?
Why don’t we act on them with alacrity?
Is it that old humbug fear of scarcity?
And if we do act upon them
Does the universe, rejoicing in the fact it got through
Suddenly speed up and become supportive?
I believe it is so
Never say no
Always go
When those thoughts and dreams come through
*I was running along behind my dogs this morning, looking down at the ground, pondering, but not stuck on any particular thing, when I was startled by an idea. A really good one. Of course I looked up. And this thought about thoughts came in on the heels of the other one.
We look down when thinking within ourselves and nearly always up when when a thought comes from outside – those flashes of inspiration, epiphanies – we look up because we know they don’t come from us. We look up almost searching for where they do come from. I do anyway. But I only noticed this little habit this morning.
And I am the last one to give this advice. Go! Do! Now! So often I overthink a great idea and someone else picks it up before me and runs with it.
We walk around surrounded by air that is full of inspiration and grand plans just waiting to be picked up and run with.
It is courage we lack, not inspiration. But imagine how amazing we could be if we married the two together – plenty of people have done it.
Inspiration plus courage = success
Okay that’s very over simplified I guess but either without the other isn’t going to take you very far either.
If not you, who? If not me? Why?
A few more thoughts on where ideas come from, from more famous minds than mine
Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us – albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.
Elizabeth Gilbert “Big Magic”
I wish for you many ideas and inspirations…
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