Inspiration vs. Desperation - part 2

After two weeks in the Promised Land, we came back home to see the country no better than we left it – I am trying not make haste to say that the situation has worsened! But it has: the scarcity of basic foodstuff, including bread, has worsened; prices of almost every product on and off the shelves have been hiked; transport costs have almost doubled; and electricity and power outages continue to be a major problem in the country, among the many challenges that we face in Zimbabwe.

These conditions, no doubt, are a great temptation for me to surrender to despair: Why did I have to come back? Why do I live in Zimbabwe? Why couldn’t they leave me in Israel? – Where things are better? What else must I expect to go wrong?

Oh, how easy would it have been for me to find myself in pessimism. Desperation would not only lead me into pessimism, it would also cripple my ability to perform in situations where I would otherwise been able to perform: I would find myself looking for answers where I should be giving answers.

I came back prepared. When the conductor said the fare was more than I thought it was, I said to myself: I do not have enough for tomorrow but I am not limiting my expenses to the income that I earn from my job but to also include any money that may stem from the exercise of my God-given talent and my ability to create wealth.

When I heard there was no bread in the stores, I said to myself: There must be something else that I can have for breakfast.

Optimism is the backbone of inspiration. I came back prepared. I came back with an optimistic outlook to life. Rather than waiting for things to happen for me, I see that I can make things happen for me and move on at my own pace.

Be Inspired.

Inspiration vs. Desperation

I know a lot of us aren’t aware of this but it’s
something worth taking note of: There are only two
motives through which we operate in the world—
inspiration and desperation.

Inspiration is the arousal of the mind to special
unusual activity or creativity and desperation is the
loss of hope and surrender to despair. Thus inspiration
is a state in which your mind is stirred up to do
something about your situation and desperation is a
state in which in which all hope is lost or absent. The
good and bad of being in these two different states of
mind are what we want to look at today and over the
coming weeks.

When you’re inspired your emotions are low (√)
It is good to operate in a low emotional state. A low
emotional state guarantees you a high mental state. A
high mental state translates itself into creative ideas of
how you are going to get yourself out of or through a
situation. After you’ve come up with the idea you can
now map your path out of or through the situation.
Once you’ve mapped up this path you can now begin
to walk out of or through the situation. And you have
a great chance of success.

When you’re desperate your emotions are high (X)
High emotions speak only of destruction. High
emotions strongly correlate with a low mental state. A
low mental state inhibits your creativity and causes
you to lack the ability to think of a way out of or
through a situation. In a way, then, high emotions
that arise as a result of being desperation leave you
stuck!

What drives you today?
If you choose to be driven by inspiration you’ll most
probably operate in a state where your emotions are
low and your mind is clear, which enables you to map
a path out of or through the situation. On the other
hand, if you choose to be driven by desperation you’ll
most probably operate in a state where your emotions
are high and your mind is clogged, which will most
likely leave you stuck.

It’s up to you – inspiration or desperation.

What drives you?