Better Ways To Get Inspired

Need some inspiration? Try this…

• Read old copies of MAD Magazine (from the late seventies and eighties, preferably).
• Watch a documentary about something you know nothing about (try Helvetica or Art & Copy).
• Go for a long walk without music (if you must listen to music, try classical or jazz – something very old without vocals).
• Start writing. In a notebook. With a pen. Anything. Just start.
• Watch a live concert on YouTube featuring an artist who you know is dealing with stuff (try this: The Tragically Hip – Woodstock 1999).
• Find your inner peace (check out Headspace).
• Go for breakfast with someone who was a friend in high school, that you haven’t seen since.
• Play with your kids in the park (if you don’t have kids of your own, ask to tag along with a friend or family member). Try the slides and the swings. 
• Read anything by Seth Godin or Tom Peters.
• Wake up an hour earlier to stretch, exercise or journal… or all three (15 minutes each).
• Take a course on drawing or photography (try Skillshare).
• Subscribe to Austin Kleon‘s e-newsltter and anything from PSFK. 
• Drink a great cup of coffee in the morning… slowly.

Now, it’s you turn… list off how you get inspired below…