Inspiration + Initiative + Clarity + Strategy

Inspiration precedes intiative. Initiative implies clarity. Clarity demands strategy. Call it linear thinking or a circuitous journey, one leads to another.

The word "passion" and the phrase "the fire in your belly" have been in vogue for quite a while now. Both are ways of conveying inspiration. Inspiration is primal and you know it when you have it. It's natural and appreciates being affirmed.

Inspiration, when left unattended, becomes dormant. It never really goes away, just sort of dries like a desert plant. With rain (even in small amounts) the plant recovers and resumes growth, even in the most parched situations. Inspiration is like that. With affirmation from outside it becomes alive again. With generous affirmation it thrives. For it to blossom an intiative is required.

Initiative puts an engine under the hood. Initiative takes raw inspiration and empowers it. What is only thought now becomes possibility and potential later, but clarity will be needed.

Without clarity intiative becomes convoluted. Confusion often results and energy is diminished, perhaps lost altogether, creating again a dormant inspiration. Clear initiative is necessary for inspiration to take root.

Strategy is fertilized clear intiative. Strategy represents the arteries of all working matter. It's the stuff that will ultimately give inspiration its life blood.

Whether you are existing in a philosophical or religious world, a composite of the two, or perhaps another other world altogether, what is your passion (inspiration) to live the only life you have? What do you dream doing with such passion (initiative)? Are you sure (clarity)? Then give it the prominence it deserves and make it work (strategy)! It's worth it. You're worth it.