What can you do to create more daily power and inspiration?

Recently I posted a brief email on creating Daily power and Inspiration. I have been compiling a list of things that you can do that will help you to achieve this state. I have had a lot of people ask me for that list. So here it is. No charge. Enjoy.

At the end I also added a few ideas of how you can help others reach higher and find their own power and inspiration. 

But I do want to warn you it's a long list. I challenge you to find a few ideas on the list that resonate with you. Please try them out and report back and if you've got any additional ideas that should be on this please send it to me.

Things you can do to feel More Power and Inspiration

Power and inspiration are important in your life. Here are some things you can do to immediately bring power and inspiration into your life. These suggestions come from ideas or activities that I have observed or were suggested by my students. I hope they will be helpful to you. Obviously some of these may not be exciting for you and some of the sporting activities suggested may not be your thing, but I encourage you to find things in this list that you do like and can do. Look for possibilities not problems.

You’ll also notice that most of these activities involve physical movement. That is no accident. The American Psychologist William James once said that emotion is created through motion. Therefore if you want to have a more inspiring or powerful feeling you can do it almost instantly by creating dynamic motion in your body. It’s hard to feel inspired as a couch potato, but nearly impossible to feel weak while moving with purpose.

As you implement and try some of these ideas I encourage you to try a few and don’t be afraid to experiment. One of the keys to creating power and inspiration in your life is to change things up and do things you normally wouldn’t. Keep life fresh and trying new things can help you feel a sense of adventure.

Here's a few examples:

Read a good book

Go to a seminar

Serve a family member

Keep a gratitude journal

Mentor someone who needs your help

Exercise (and do more than you normally would)

Clean your house (more on why this works later)

Make written plans for your best future

Count your blessings

Read your journal

Meet with an inspiring friend

Watch a youtube void of an inspiring speech

Listen to uplifting music

Go on a bike ride

Plan your day better

Be kind

Do good wherever you go

Make a list of your blessings

Start a new hobby

Go out in nature

Take a walk

Turn off your phone

Play with kids

Paint or draw

Forgive someone of something from the past

Do something that scares you

Write a kind letter to a friend or family member

Volunteer your time to help somewhere

Declutter

Complete a project your been thinking about for too long

Do a secret act of kindness

Do one of your spouses chores without request

Pick something today you will do with absolute excellence

Learn about your family history

Visit your oldest living relative

Take your spouse or partner on a date to somewhere you’ve never been

Watch an inspiring movie

Review the notes from the past personal development seminars you attended

Forget yourself and get to work

Set goals

Journal

Meditate

Go to the spa

Play a sport with a group

Go to Jiu Jitsu

Review your achievements

Read your letters of recommendation or testimonials 

Share your ideas with high level thinkers

Become part of a mastermind

Study history

Send gratitude letters

Laugh more

Trust your moments of inspiration

Itemize your top victories

Listen to the song that were popular when you were in high school

List your top ten days

Remember a moment when you faced your fears and won

Sing loudly in your car

Eat your favourite meal

Reward yourself for a recent victory

Ask a best friend to share your most important attributes

Be teachable

Learn a new skill

Decide to be more bold

Seek out a higher network

Make a list of attributes you believe are inspiring to develop in yourself

Make a list of attributes you believe are powerful to develop in yourself

Pick one habit of powerful people to develop 

Congratulate your competitors on their successes too

Put on your favourite power outfit

Ask what you can learn every experience both good and bad

List your strengths

Trust your decisions

Make decisions quickly

Speak to your kindly, inspirationally and powerfully in the mirror

Surround yourself with more powerful people

Be authentic - trying to be something else will never give you power

Find moments of to be brave and remember them

Smile and be encouraging

Take care of your appearance

Take care of your body

Take a moment to focus on you and what you really want to be fulfilled

Use affirmations

Strike a powerful pose - how you stand can effect your state

Imagine yourself as a super hero

Think like a winner

Ask what would my hero do right now?

Write a mission statement

Plan out a dream

Work on your vision board

Get off the internet

Take a day to meditate and plan

Dance for no reason

Turn off your phone

Notice your body language

Spend less time with negative people

Use a timer to accomplish specific tasks and goals

Enter community and business awards

Spend more time serving people

Set up reward schedules

Write/create your ideal day 

Get a customer to appreciate and pay you

Delegate more of your weaknesses away

Read a book of motivational quotes

Make an easy change in your life

Recognize that there is always something you can do

Recognize that success and failure are never final

Get competitive

Spend more time using your imagination

Get more committed to a cause

Remember that even your little efforts are making a difference

Spend more time dreaming about what could be

Focus more time on what you love

Separate what in your life is most valuable from things that don’t matter much

Get started, momentum has magic

Make plans on what you will do before the day starts

Use the beliefs of others if you are empty

Think of yourself as powerful and inspiring

Move on from failures quickly

Simplify things

Live according to your highest values

Have a mentor or coach share with you who they see when they look at you

Don’t be afraid to say what you want

Focus on what you can do in the present

When you feel cornered stop and make a list of your choices

Consider how to make your outcomes possible instead of if

Make clear decisions

Give more than you take

Be bold to win rather than fearful of losing

Set more short term goals

Prepare more

Don’t require perfection seek progress

Seek out hard work rather than retreat from it

Start with what you know

Learn how to delegate more

Use your free time in more productive ways

Demand more from yourself

Look at problems with a greater sense of hope and calmness

Have the best support to do your work

Have the best equipment and supplier for your task

Have a clean workshop

Get and stay organized

Focus on one thing at a time

Shift your environment to include more inspiration

Build an empowering daily routine

Dress to impress

Volunteer with disabled people

Look for the best in others and you will start to see it more in yourself

Take a moment to distinguish important from interesting 

Be willing to give a good attitude regardless of the task

Set a schedule prioritizing your most important goals

Spend time visualizing your desired outcomes

Report successes to an accountability partner

Seek for synergy in all you do

Trust yourself more

Look for the powerful possibilities rather than the possible problems

Focus on doing small things with excellence first

Be proactive not reactive

Do not think or act like a victim in any way

Learn the power of personal responsibility

Naturally I am going to keep adding to this list and share it again in the future. If you have any ideas or things you would like to add to the list please send them to me and I’ll make sure it gets on the list.

BONUS: Making others feel powerful and inspired 

While pretty much everything above can also be shared with others and adapted to help others feel more powerful and inspired I’ve included a few specific ones to help others below. These are often more complex strategies as human dynamics are often complex. For those who have participated in PPM level 2 you understand how important authenticity, honesty, trust and connection are in any efforts to influence others. 

You also understand how any power or inspiration that another person may feel must come from within them. Again for those who have done the course you may remember the idea that “You cannot light a fire with wet wood.” In order to be inspired or feel powerful the other person must have a reasonable willingness score, and the higher they score the easier they will be to have a powerful and inspiring relationship with.

These following ideas come from my mentors, students and myself. Hopefully they will be of value to you in some way.

Here are the few ideas to consider in help others feel powerful and influence:

Ask for their ideas

Accept their feedback

Ask them to share their talents or skills

Listen

Give responsibility 

Helping other achieve their goals

Let them be self-reliant

Let them learn responsibility

Bring up past victories

Praise them publicly

Learn to compliment

Set up reward and recognition opportunities

Point out progress

Don’t provide answers, help them find their own

If you must make a correction use the “Love-Support-Love” formula

Don’t make it your mission to fix others

Stop what you’re doing when others sharing with you

Pause to be to listen to who is important instead of focus on what is important

People before process

Remember that relationships must be more than transactional

Remember and recognize important events and dates for others

Seek to validate and understand other peoples interests

Consider the needs of others from their point of view

Ask how you might be able to help before assuming you know how to help

Build rapport before giving advice

Never criticize publicly

See value in your competition

Recognize and values individual differences

Remember that big things are only built with a team

Be willing to understand differing points of view