At this stage in my life, there is a fine line between getting myself inspired and motivated. Inspiration tends to apply to music production and personal business endeavors while motivation tends to apply to school work, my health, and chores. Often times, my methods of inspiration work against my progress in completing school work, however my motivational mindset also applies to my inspirations. This is an issue I’ve been making an effort of working on; bringing inspiration to my school work.
Making beats on my computer is a hobby of mine that requires myself to be inspired. In order to get inspired, I simply listen to music on Spotify or my own beats to stir ideas and fuel interest. It generally works; often times as I am listening to others’ successful work on a professional level, I think to myself, “I could make something like this.” This past week I used this method and made a pretty gnarly beat.
I’ve found that once I actually get myself to begin working on something, no matter what it is, inspiration follows next. One way that I get motivated to start something productive is just thinking about the fact that future self will appreciate that I’ve gotten it finished or worked on it. Just thinking about my future self and telling myself that ‘once you get started on something, you tend to enjoy doing it’ helps me get motivated and ultimately inspired.
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