74 ways to be inspired: inspiration by the senses

How’s your inspiration mojo going  this week? Are you knocked about by the sudden onset of warm temperatures {like I am here in Australia} or feeling a bit blah because there’s a chill is in the air? Are you excited by the coming festive season and all it brings, or feeling overwhelmed by the amount of things on your to do list?

Or maybe it is a little bit of everything?

And let’s face it ~ Wednesdays are hard. It’s not know as Hump Day for nothing.

So today, I’m taking a step back {just for a couple of minutes ~ I have lots to do you know!} and taking a deep breath and thinking about my inspiration sense, inspired by this post about Finding Inspiration by Coming to Your Senses. This also reminds me of Abby’s lovely posts called Five Senses Friday which are a simple and effective reflection of her week.

Here’s my inspiration by the senses {bound to change on a daily, if not hourly basis}:

hearing

Silence. I find myself working better without music at the moment, moving from one task to another without distraction, and trying to listen and tune into my thoughts more so I can find some order among the chaos.

seeing

Mess {which inspires me to clean and organise and declutter, and you know what they say about the effect that has on your mind}, and endless possibilities.

tasting

A ‘snack’ of success. It’s small, but it is confidence buliding, a few sales here and there, nice feedback is all a welcome boost to the self-esteem.

smelling

The perfume of roses and baking. I love baking ~ achievement, nourishment and love all rolled into one package. It is such a great feeling to create something that your family appreciates and enjoys.

touching

Or in this case “feeling”, better. A moment of reflection reveals all that is good, puts things in perspective and helps me re-prioritise.

And this essentially sums up my week. After taking the time to sit and think about what motivates and pushes me forward, I’m ready to face the rest of the week, full of new plans and goals.

I recommend taking a few minutes to see what is inspiring your senses today and I would love to hear what they are.

Happy hump day!

ps. Some notes on the photo above ~ abstract with a dash of lime. It comes from a string of photos taken the other night during a thunderstorm, when I was trying to capture a moody lightning shot. Apart from being cropped it is straight out of the camera. I have no idea where the lime lights come from, but I like it!