Life consists not only of fascinating affairs and even more of a routine. However, it is worthwhile to approach uninteresting work with enthusiasm, as the situation begins to change. And you do not need to wait until it is sent from above. It is enough to find out where the energy is leaking and to find sources of enthusiasm in oneself. Do not believe it? The article tells about the "eaters" of inspiration and how to start a life full of passion and drive.
What is enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is a state of supreme inspiration, intellectual take-off, and spiritual uplifting, which is expressed by the willingness to solve difficult tasks without compulsion and with great pleasure. Enthusiasm is an energetic motivator that helps you achieve your goals. After all, without him, a person is unlikely to want to follow self-discipline, work with concentration, develop skills. With apparent spontaneity enthusiasm, as a rule, manifests itself in planned self-improvement.
The word "enthusiasm" Greek origin. Initially, it signified the state of a person under the influence of divine inspiration, which inexplicably descends from a otherworldly source. Later, the concept was transformed into an aesthetic category that characterizes a person’s reaction to the beautiful. In Old Slavonic language the word passed along with religion and was translated as "madness." Such an interpretation did not stick, and only at the beginning of the XIX century the word "enthusiasm" was adopted in Russian without change.
Enthusiasm never refers to negative personality traits. In the middle of the 20th century, the American writer and philosopher Robert Hubbard introduced the concept of "emotional tone scale", which characterizes the emotional state of a person in different periods of life. Grades are displayed in numbers from 0 to 4. The highest awarded to the enthusiasm, the state in which a person says: "I can do everything! Life is amazing and full of chances!".
People who are passionate about any goal or idea and deliberately go to it are called enthusiasts. For example, the Greek philosopher Socrates called enthusiasts of muse-inspired poets. Usually enthusiasm is associated with charisma, optimism, passion, perseverance, passion, ecstasy. There are stable idioms in which the word gets additional meanings:
- Ostentatious enthusiasm - a screen behind which ambitions hide, overestimated self-conceit, desire to succeed.
- Creative - the elation that a person feels in the process of creativity.
- Naked - vigorous activity that is carried out without knowledge or means.
- Religious - a state of extreme spiritual tension, accompanied by emotional and physical excitement.
And that is not all. Enthusiasm is patriotic, exaggerated, redundant, childish, infectious.
An excellent thought about the nature of enthusiasm was formulated by American journalist James Matthew Adams: "... it is faith that has ignited"However, the spiritual ascent should not be compared with an uncontrolled fire. It is rather a creative fire that can be tamed. Spontaneous enthusiasm destroys, control helps to create.
Why do we need enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is a priceless quality that changes everything. Why?
- This is a great medicine.. Negative thinking leads to real physical illness. Inspired by optimism, reason will lead to health and longevity.
- It gives a taste of life.. When we experience an emotional uplift, even ordinary things seem attractive. We do not expect joy from outside, our inspiration helps to live life richly, with pleasure.
- He is contagious, his absence too. Passion is contagious, like the flu. Sluggish, monotonous speech does not arouse the interest of others. But energetic speech, burning eyes, and enthusiasm for the idea always evoke a response in others.
- It gives a sense of strength and confidence.. Enthusiasts are ready for force majeure and this allows them to maintain confidence in their composure, control the situation, soberly assess the state of affairs.
- He makes you a leader. All successful and charismatic entrepreneurs are activated by inspiration. It is difficult to imagine speakers in front of an audience of Margaret Thatcher or Mark Zuckerberg without a hint of enthusiasm in his voice. Even when things go wrong, they know how to remain in a state of elation.
- He is valued more than professional skills.. Teaching a young professional is much easier than constantly finding motivation for a negatively minded employee.
- His presence helps to achieve special results.. Perhaps that is why people value the life force of inspiration and develop effective methods for its development and maintenance.
How to develop the enthusiasm of a superhero
It is impossible to imitate enthusiasm - artificial gestures, invented words will be instantly recognized by others. Train inspiration like muscles can not. This is a sensory state, either we feel it or not. However, you can use the secrets that will help to enter a state of elation.
7 principles of enthusiasm
To understand the mechanism of the emergence of enthusiasm among others, it is best to use their experience. Consider the 7 key principles that distinguish the true enthusiast:
- Interest and awareness: help to find new values.
- Knowledge and self-education: it is important not only the amount of information, but also the training of the brain.
- Belief in yourself and faith in yourself: turn off anxiety, unblock emotions, stimulate unexpected healings.
- Concentration and discipline: focus on what you do.
- Work at the limit: pushes for the opportunity to realize inspiration, to experience in the end joy and ecstasy.
- Altruism: inspires, gives hope for the best.
- Love and awe in relation to life: unites everything in the world, allows you to be yourself.
Inspiration energy eaters
- Enthusiasm is a perishable product. This state is too energy consuming to last for a long time. But sometimes energy flows away incomprehensibly, even during inactivity. Inspiration stops working when we:
- Forget about what really pleases. We neglect our favorite thing, saying that it does not have enough time or we are too tired. And in vain. Favorite hobby replenishes energy reserves better lying aimlessly on the couch.
- Constantly distracted. Distractions minimizes the efficiency of labor due to dissipated energy. But the concentration allows at the right time to "calibrate" the energy for a powerful jerk.
- We are disappointed in ourselves before we start to act.. Since childhood, we were taught "Measure seven times, cut once." There is a truth in this, but the fear of being mistaken paralyzes, closes our own desires and ambitions from us.
- We consider routine affairs boring.. Many people consider cleaning the house, cleaning the stove, washing indescribably boring occupations. But energy is not taken by the affairs themselves, but by our attitude towards them. As soon as we focus on the positive moments, the energy will begin to grow.
- Too often we talk about our plans.. None of our plans, the universe does not just. Energy is attached to them. If we are too enthusiastic to discuss our plans with others, the energy is spent on words, not on deeds. It is much more effective to share the results of what has been done than to talk about it.
- We listen to pessimists. Pessimism can "infect" even an inveterate enthusiast. Therefore, communication with such people should be reduced to a minimum and not take their statements to your account.
- Too afraid of criticism. And we are often afraid to disappoint people from their past. To get away from the fear of criticism, it is enough to present your tombstone with the inscription "He did not realize his plans because he was afraid to disappoint an unfamiliar person."
- Neglecting recovery. Sounds become music thanks to pauses, words add up to sentences thanks to spaces. The same with work - it is in the pauses that energy is restored, there is time for relationships, friendship.
10 sources of enthusiasm
It doesn't matter for what matters enthusiasm may be useful. It will provide the amount of determination, strength and inspiration that will bring you closer to the result faster than the rest. Here are tips from coaches, writers and self-development coaches:
- Set personal goals. Stop torturing yourself with forced goal-setting and just think: what will make you as happy as possible. Behind each goal is not the desire to get something, but to experience certain feelings. Therefore, it is not so important to formulate a goal, how to understand its essence.
- Develop emotional intelligence. Emotions are well controlled. Where you cannot control your emotions, you can use their energy in an effective way - learn to get inspiration from internal resources.
- Find inspiring surroundings.. This is not a reason to abandon old friends, but an occasion to think: these people charge us or take our energy. The main inspirers are people with a large scale of personality. This may be a mentor, a friend with whom you move to a dream, new acquaintances from trainings, a new team.
- Learn and read. A person is a conductor - at first he receives knowledge, information, experiences, then gives ideas to the world around him. As soon as the brain begins to starve, it is exhausted, ceases to please us. Books, seminars, trainings, hobby groups provide food for the mind.
- Move. When the brain gets tired, you need to relax the body. Jump rope, plank, short walk, energetic dance. All this helps to urgently relax the muscle blocks. Regular exercise in general does wonders: lift your spirits, make us be more collected, energetic.
- Find a hobby. Perhaps you have been interested in a case since childhood that has no place in adult life. If you don’t remember this, go to an exhibition, to a museum, a second-hand book shop or an antique shop - somewhere where you can look at realized ideas. Contact with the beautiful will give the desire to create.
- Make a list of self-motivators. It is not necessary to remember which of the books you read had a motivating quote. Publishers offer books, calendars, postcards, wallpapers with inspiring sayings. Pictures can be installed on the smartphone screen - so they will always be at hand.
- Watch for energy levels. Life without energy is comparable to a trip with a car with empty tanks. To work with enthusiasm, to be involved in the process emotionally and physically, you need to regularly recuperate. Make yourself a five-minute rest every hour, after hours, completely disconnect from work problems, get enough sleep, walk.
- Travel. Distances and novelty are the main incentives for creative inspiration. There are different trips: big ones - when we go to a distant country and small ones - trips to another city or walks to a place where you have not been. Due to the change of places, we understand life much broader than everyday affairs, we keep children's curiosity and encourage inspiration.
- Pretend until you get real. If you want to succeed at work - act energetically, take confident postures artificially, until it becomes a part of your “I”. Thinking about love - do what a loving person does. Making yourself take action takes a new way of thinking is easier than making yourself act in accordance with new thoughts.
There is no need to accept changes in all directions at once. But each new step will give you a new vitality and result in the form of a revived creative ascent.
findings:
- Enthusiasm is the power of the soul that is turned on at full capacity, which helps to decide to succeed where the majority are failing.
- Enthusiasm is like a flame. It is important to maintain controlled fire under your goals.
- Inspiration changes the quality of work and the person himself, improves character, gives confidence, infects with optimism, gives flexibility of spirit.
- Enthusiasm turns a typhoon into a fair wind, it’s enough to communicate with inspiring people and follow their example.
