How to do inspired actions

I was awake and not feeling like doing anything.

But this morning I had some hours spare alone in the house, and I had planned to focus on my new product, The RichThinking Way, and to lay out a plan for the next lot of articles for the coming year.

But I didn’t want to get out of bed, let alone switch on the computer. Thoughts of inspired actions wandered around in my mind; I knew that I needed to be in an inspired place to do both of these things. Hum. What to do.

Well, I know that I like to think I am in complete control of my life, even though I have lots of evidence to the contrary, and the only way through this situation where I was feeling distinctly unmotivated, let alone inspired, was to just do what I fancied and if I never got around to doing either of these things, well, just to trust they would get completed some other time. So I had a bath — my way of pampering myself. I read my novel in the bath. Another way of pampering. And a couple of paragraphs in the novel inspired me (yes, that word) to think of 50 things I was grateful for in my life right now.

I’m quite practiced at using this tool now, and though when I first started doing it 50 things seemed like a lot, now I can usually rattle them off. Why do I do it? Because it changes my energy every single time. So now I’m lying in the bath feeling good again, and glad that I’d remembered to feel grateful and was willing to do this little exercise.

Then I realised that the best way to compile my list of articles for the year was to start it now, and add to it over the week as titles and topics come to me. Now I felt inspired to get out and go to my desk to start!

And that’s what I’m about to do now — but I wanted to share this first, because this is rich thinking in action. This is what it looks like on a daily, hourly and even by the minute basis. How do you think richly in your days, hours and minutes?