{"id":8486,"date":"2019-12-12T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:22:47","slug":"instead-of-waiting-for-inspiration-learn-how-to-cultivate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/instead-of-waiting-for-inspiration-learn-how-to-cultivate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of Waiting for Inspiration, Learn How to Cultivate It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we&#8217;re inspired, we work differently. We&#8217;re faster, more engaged, and it shows in what we produce. But does inspiration just strike, or can we learn how to produce it?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/better-marketing\/instead-of-waiting-for-inspiration-learn-how-to-cultivate-it-e7db2ec2dd91\">Instead of Waiting for Inspiration, Learn How to Cultivate It<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>You can&#8217;t force it to come, but you can always invite it We often say that inspiration &#8220;strikes us.&#8221; Such use of language reflects a powerful belief. Most of us are used to thinking of inspiration as something entirely beyond our control. This belief is present in the popular approach to productivity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we&#8217;re inspired, we work differently. We&#8217;re faster, more engaged, and it shows in what we produce. But does inspiration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-8486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-businesssuccess","9":"tag-productivity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}