Think about the thing you hope to accomplish and your reasons for wanting to achieve it. Make a list of those reasons, and refer back to it often, as you continue to work on the later steps that will help you inspire yourself toward the action you want to take.
Seek out inspiring stories of other people who have achieved similar successes to the one you'd like to accomplish. Such stories can be found in newspapers or magazines, on TV or on the Internet and even by word-of-mouth. Reading, watching or hearing these uplifting tales can help make it seem more possible to inspire oneself to action.
Visualize yourself performing the action and achieving the goal you've set out to inspire yourself to complete. As you visualize, note the way the accomplishment makes you feel. Evaluate your feelings. For example, you may feel victorious, happy, content, empowered or capable. Continue to use visualization to help draw yourself toward completing the action you'd like to inspire.
Place yourself in inspiring surroundings. Go outside and get with nature if that helps to inspire you. At home, surround yourself with beauty, whether it is art that you enjoy, photos of people you care about, household decorations that ignite your imagination or music that stirs your soul. These will help to place you in the right frame of mind for action by lifting your spirits and filling you with optimism.
Spend time with people who believe in you, who are optimists themselves and who cheer you on and trust your ability to accomplish your goal. Their faith in you will help inspire you to believe in yourself and your own ability to successfully complete the action you desire. When needed, their support and advice can help remove any last doubts you may have about your aspirations.
Celebrate your successes. This will create joyful emotions and memories about your achievements, helping you maintain strong positive expectations for future success. And those expectations will carry over to help inspire you for action the next time you have a goal you hope to accomplish.