Inspiration is essential

We've been taught that taking time to be inspired isn't productive. Yet without inspiration, we're not creating anything new. We're just consuming and reproducing what already exists.

Actual productivity comes from being inspired. The walk in nature, the music, the conversation that lights you up isn't separate from your work. It's the very thing that makes your work worth doing and gives it its life force. Inspiration isn't a luxury we indulge in after we finish the real work. Inspiration is a discipline.

When we create from our highest place, we bring something into the world that hasn't existed before, and bring more abundance and meaning into the world. That's the only “productivity” that matters. Everything else is just spinning wheels.

What inspires you that you've been treating as unproductive?