When you're looking to market your business in a new, authentic way or to spend more time with your art, either for self-expression or because it makes your soul sing, it's tempting to think you need to wall yourself off. To spend quiet hours alone in retreat or at your studio or desk, cultivating a precise or right environment for inspiration.

While these things may be helpful, they certainly aren't necessary. All you need, really, is to look around. To sweep the floor or to stir the soup while awake and present is a song, an ache, a symphony of human creation.

What happens when you stop and notice what's around you? How is that reflected in the message or work you long to share with the world?

I'd love to hear what you've been doing to fill your soul.