I go through floods and droughts of inspiration as I imagine everyone does. In droughts I get really frustrated that I have nothing to think about. Today I was looking for away to combat this. I realized that the George Santayana quote, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it,” applies.

When I paused for a moment and took a look at what inspired me in the past, I realized that I had moved away from all my inspirations completely. I had condemned myself to go through a cycle of lack of inspiration by not following patterns I had subconsciously laid for myself during a time of inspiration.

During my most recent bout of inspiration I had been pulling from people, books, Twitter, blogs, and a huge amount of sources that challenged my everyday thinking. When I started to let these things go and fall back into a substandard routine of laziness, I lost almost all my motivation. I had been on such an inspiration high for such a long time, I considered it to almost be a norm and noticed my change for the worse.

I recommend you takes some advice that Jim Cramer give’s in one of his books: When you do something, you have a reason for it. Write down that reason, or document it somewhere, so that in the future when you are wondering why you did that, you can go back and see your reasoning.

So with this in mind, when you have inspiration, document what you believe are the key factors of your inspiration during that time. Obviously these can change and adapt over time, but you will have a springboard to help you jump out of your inspirational droughts.

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