Maybe widening your view by narrowing down your view. Only take pictures of subjects you really like to cover. Investigate first before you start shooting.
There are so many ways of covering a subject with photography.
If you walk arround and take pictures of everything, you will only develope a better eye for random pictures. They will improve, but subjectwise they will lack of interest.
To get better and stand out, my opinion is that you should focus on only one or two subjects at the time. Otherwise you will get distracted and that is what inspiration is all about, too much distraction. Having a nice picture of an animal does not mean you should focus just on that. Perhaps a good picture of an animal isn't all that difficult and probably a lot of people can do the same.
pictures like these:
http://www.nigelshafran.com/ may look like random pictures, but the photographer is actually investigating a way people behave.
Social interaction within a family:
http://katrinadautremont.com/PHOTOGRAPHS/Si_dios/Sidios_statement_page.html
The way you dress, or decorate your house or the way you do your housekeeping can tell al lot about someone, without the person actually being shown: (click on the book)
http://www.lisesarfati.com/03portfolio/portfolio.shtml
Documenting Nomads by photographing their shot-up targets:
http://www.richardmosse.com/photography.php?pid=4 (realize that it goes beyond the first impression that they just like to shoot stuff... some psychology involved as in most photography)
I also saw a series once of ten photo's of flattened grass. It looked ridiculous at first. But then i read the captions. They were photo's of sleepingspots of deer.
Some guy i know takes photo's of lost gloves. He also made a series of broken neon-signs for example: A.PLE or H.WLETT PA.KARD (He was making a point that company's who makes millions of money, couldn't find time to maintain their signs, the first thing people see when approaching the company)
Sometimes ideas sound weird or farfetched, but their originallity stands out and show that the photographer investigated first, and then took the photo's. Not being bothered by other distracting subjects.
If you like cars, perhaps making a series of drivers, or maybe a series of drivers by photographing their helmets, or follow one (ask) for a week/month and document his/her daily life. Make a story out of it with a beginning and an end. This concept you can use on basically anything.
Approach subjects as an investigator or journalist and you'll see that there's more to it, than just a good picture.
*My whole opinion is based more or less on documentary & autonomous photography, the stuff i like
