OMG, where and how to get ideas???

“Oh No!! I have run out of ideas to write, what should I do?!!” “I have been sitting here in front of my computer for a day facing a blank screen and not a single idea pops out!!! HELP!!” Sounds familiar? I bet most of us do, we tend to ran out of ideas to post a topic in our blog even if we crack our minds or shouting for inspirations from higher being for help but all you heard is only your own helpless voice echo from the wall, so what do you going to do about it? Do you drink a lot of coffee or do you just sleep all day to hope you will get your ideas in lucid dream (it’s hard to get one, not for me)? Well here we will go through some of the ways that may help you get some inspirations.



Let’s start with

Coffee

Cuppa coffee

Well I am not a coffee lover, to be honest I drink coffee because I need to be awake it is important to me because when I am out of ideas I will feel drowsy and then result in demotivated mood, why coffee helps? Because  coffee contains caffeine, and what does caffeine do is it attaches to our certain receptors so that Adenosine (something our brain produce) will not make us sleepy, it is important to know that coffee will not increase your current skills, instead it kind of take out the negative stuffs and let your performance runs smoothly. You may get yourself addicted and that is normal, please ONLY take 2 to 3 cups of coffee else you are consider as a heavy addictive in caffeine, in fact anything good that is too much, it’s bad for us. 

Coffitivity

Nice ambient sound occurring

Yes, you are right this is not an actual English term, it is a combination of the word ‘coffee’ and ‘creativity’, No, I did not create the word my own, there is actually a team that suggested a person cannot be creative when the environment is too quite or too loud, so a little noise or ambient sound will do great for our mind to spin creatively and the sound they suggested is putting yourself in a coffee shop. You can check them out by typing ‘coffitivity’ they actually provide a loop able coffee shop ambient shop (Yes, you heard me) just to get you some idea on what they are trying to prove, I personally think that is quite weird because I am listening to the ambient but what I see is my house environment, so I suggest to actually go to a real coffee shop and be in that moment can really help, maybe there are some random people to speak some keywords that will trigger your mind, who knows?, oh and do not forget to order a cup of coffee to really boost up your mind.

Toilet/Bathroom

Have you ever heard your friend or heard someone saying something like “Work desk is a place you sleep, Computer desk is a place you eat, and Toilet/bathroom is a place you think”? I think it is true, most of the slight ideas came to my mind during my time in toilet or bathroom. Ever wonder why and how a bathroom works for us? Well it act as a space for us to reflect ourselves or things, thing that had happened, happening, and will be happen in future, because we are alone is a given space, no one to interfere, it is a time we truly get in touch with ourselves, to be calm to think and analyze what is work and what is not work for us, including ideas, one of the best place for critical thinking, of course that must be an average clean toilet or bathroom.

Conclusion

Well then, I hope the above suggestions may help you get your ideas or inspirations out of the blue, or maybe if you have some great experience other than what you read above, please do write in the comment for sharing, until then have fun~ (Maybe some beer might help too?)

Struggling hard to be a blogger? You might need to realign your mindset

The road ahead is unknown, what will you do?

Are you the one who wish to become a professional blogger so badly at the first place but as time goes by you kind of run out of this motivation juice? You started to questioning yourself that “Is this what I really wanted?” and you doubt yourself each time for your answers, lack of skills maybe? Well sometimes it is not about the skills set, it is about your mindset. You might have the best skill but without a proper mindset, you will not feel happy, you will not enjoy the path. If you ever feel that way, it is time to journey inward.

1. A reason to be

This is the first and the most important point to start off with, you should find the reason why you should be a blogger. The WHY here I did not mean profit, it is a purpose, it is always have to be a purpose larger than yourself, why you do you decided to become a blogger? Why you did not choose to be just like what you had been told to get a normal job instead? Why should anyone bother to read your post? You reason can be a little bit irrational one but it MUST be a solid one such as “I believe the world can be change to a better place through my written words” or it can be as simple as “I believe my blog post may inspire readers from within”, yes it may sounds funny and unrealistic, people might make fun of you, even your closest friends and families, but come to think of it, if the Wright brothers are thinking realistic that time like anyone else, I believe we will not have aero plane until today, who will be crazy enough to try to bend metal and making it fly on the sky? That does not sounds REALISTIC at all isn’t it? If you heard of the story of The Wright brothers, they did not do it for fame, money or glory, they believe that if they can successfully invent this flying machine, it could change the course of the world and with this reason, they succeed, of course with a lot of hard work. So WHY do you wanted to blog?

2. A will to act

Nothing will come to flourish without actions, a dream will always stays as a dream if you let it be. So after you have found your reasons, you need to understand that to accomplish anything, a strong will is a must, else it would be just another regret that you will be talking to your grandson about. If you think you should improve your writing skill, you must have a will to take in the initiative to try to develop a practice or a routine for your skills, a will to go and read a lot of tutorials in how to write or what to focus on a blog, a will to make yourself to complete writing a blog post every day or every week and etc.; for this section I had to quote one of my favorite quote from Will Smith:

“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft." - Will Smith”

It is not a competition between you and others, instead it is a competition between you and yourself, so remind yourself to get better when you are starting to get lazy or giving up, a strong skill with a constant will is much powerful than you think.

3. An idea to share

We as human is a social being, it is hard to be alone all the time, we need friends and families to share our thoughts. I believe you will feel good by sharing ideas with person who has a common moral value or thinking and sometimes you all might create something amazing in the middle of the conversation. So another way to get motivated is to look for someone who shares the same value but have a completely different way of expressing it. confused? Well, you will know when you notice one. It is important to look for those people or friend because they can help you to spread your WHY or reasons to attract those others to have the same values you do, in fact those friends are actually doing it for themselves at the same time as well. If your type of blog is about food for instance, you will have people who really know how to search for new or special café or food stalls which suits your style, you will be busy enjoying writing post about what you love, furthermore you can enjoy it with the people together, how cool is that?

Conclusion

I hope these few tips will help you to realign your mindset to a better one and hope it will make you have some serious thoughts about what you do (in this case being a professional paid blogger), if you think you only blog just to past some time then I suggest you forget about quitting your job and being a full-time blogger because you will not be happy about your choice and will give up eventually, at last I hope this post will help not just about blogging but as a life, may the force be with you good luck.