This is a really powerful advice, if not the most powerful advice you’ll ever read. It is trivial, simple you name it and yet hardly one you have heard before.

In a society where we like to show, build an audience of “followers”, where courses are being sold for people to replicate a overinflated promise to the letter

A common wonder is how to take inspiration without replicating others and it is actually key and instrumental not replicating. There isn’t A to Z recipe to follow that will guarantee your path to success. That being said, it doesn’t mean that what others are doing is uninteresting. Quite the opposite, it is a great source of inspiration that simply needs to be put in perspective of your own context, your own set of circumstances.

Imagine you’re someone who wants to start a daily meditation practice, but you see all these Instagram influencers and bloggers talking about their 30-minute morning meditations. You think to yourself, “I’m not good enough or disciplined enough to do that!”

But here’s the thing: trying to replicate exactly what those influencers are doing won’t work because:

• They might have a completely different schedule or lifestyle than you.
• Their meditation practice is likely tailored to their specific needs and
• Since nature doesn’t like void, you might not even have 30 minutes available each day
• The person you refer may not even have started with that amount
• …

So, instead of trying to copy the influencers’ exact routine, you could take inspiration from it by:

• Starting with a shorter, more manageable meditation practice that fits your schedule (e.g., 5-10 minutes per day).
• Experimenting with different types of meditation practices or apps that resonate with you.
• Focusing on making progress and consistency rather than trying to achieve some arbitrary “perfect” routine.
• You may just prefer doing Yoga or doing something drastically different

By doing this, you’ll be able to create a meditation practice that’s tailored to your own needs and lifestyle, rather than feeling like you’re failing because you can’t replicate someone else’s exact approach. The routine isn’t why people are making it, nor the source of their happiness. It is the result of a path they took. Remember, if you don’t have a path somebody else will have one for you.

If you are on a path, you may only just inspire from as your path doesn’t allow replication.