What is inspiration in the workplace?
Thanks for this question. The truth is that there is no inspiration. You can’t create it, make it, or have it. You cannot cause it or lose it.
Inspiration is what happens when the circumstances are right. Like meditation, you can’t meditate either. Don’t believe anyone who tells you that they will teach you to meditate, you are not being honest. They never actually meditated.
All we can do is create the circumstances in which meditation could happen. And similarly with Inspiration, we can only create the circumstances for inspiration to happen.
How do we create the circumstances for inspiration to occur in an office?
1. In the area. People walking without warning is the opposite of “in the zone.” Even a pair of headphones with the right music (individual choice) can block out environmental disturbances and create a “zone” for someone. About 20-30 minutes in “the zone” leads a person to inspiration.
2. Happiness. Dark moods, anger, negativity, and depressing ones kill the space for inspiration. The up beat, positive, affirmative and honest environments allow the nervous system to relax, release the defenses and this is essential for inspiration.
3. Trust. We must have a sense of purpose for inspiration to occur. That simply means the belief that we are “on the right track” with whatever we are doing. Design a carpet, write a letter, answer the phone, no matter what we do, we must believe that this activity is causing the result that our boss, or project, demands. Uncertainty kills inspiration.
4. Challenge. Many people avoid challenges thinking that calm creates inspiration. But this is false. Calm kills inspiration. There must be a sense of demand, urgency, intention, outcome and there must be constant progress checks against this.
5. Comments. Inspiration dies in uncertainty. We already said this. But there is more. Feedback means a monitoring system that rewards incompetence. Reward effort over results. It is not about emotional topics, but a tribute to genuine effort. If people feel a sense of direction, they drop the retention patterns that ego defenses cause, which in turn would block inspiration.
6. Hierarchy. There are many feminists who advocate for equality in the world. This is a myth if it translates into management structures. Equality is related to the human rights of each individual. Here it is valid. Equality in an office is also a human rights issue. But the challenge to hierarchy in a structure is the hatred of man. The hatred of man means that an individual cannot be humble before authority. Whether that authority is male or female, that individual who cannot respect authority hates masculinity. This means that the individual has become obsessed with self-expression, self-determination, opinions and own feelings. This defies the most powerful law of nature. The law of the one and the many, humility to a greater power.
In the office we are humble with the boss. If we don’t like the boss, we should go away, not complain or challenge them. In society the laws are the ones that rule. If we challenge them, there can be no structure, order, or security. In the relationship, loving-kindness rules. In our personal life, health is boss (if we are not healthy), but when we are healthy, a purposeful life becomes boss. If we cannot respect our teachers, we cannot respect our gods. We must learn to compartmentalize our bosses. The boss at work is not our boss in the relationship.
Leadership is essential. If a feminist fights against business leadership because of human rights, then this could be healthy. If they fight because they hate authority figures, then there will never be inspiration in this business and people will burn out.
7. Energy. In the office, people eat shit, drink a lot of coffee, drink chocolate or, many starve until lunchtime and then overeat and are flabbergasted in the afternoon. Blood sugar is the key to energy management. Blood sugar is more important than the environment. Low blood sugar puts people in a reactive and defensive attitude. High blood sugar makes people open, loud, and aggressive. Finding the balance is essential. Nuts, fruits, substantial protein. All of this science is ignored in our society obsessed with controlling body weight, or blood types or whatever. When the blood sugar level is high or low, there can be no inspiration.
Hope you find this great.
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