Why I Inspire ?

“All our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

So, what is inspiration? How does it impact us? And what and who inspires you? Clearly, if nothing else, to be inspired or to focus on something inspirational is all very high vibrational activity, contributing to you feeling like you are living your bliss, finding happiness and a sense of empowerment!.

The word inspire actually has several definitions: 1. To stimulate somebody to do something (encourage somebody to greater effort, enthusiasm or creativity); 2. To provoke particular feeling (arouse a particular feeling in somebody, as inspires optimism); 3. To cause creative activity (to stimulate somebody to do something, especially creative or artistic work); 4 to breathe in (as to inhale air).

For me, personally, that which inspires me (fills me with beautiful spirit) is what touches my heart and my entire being, in a way that motivates or pushes me to want to take some kind of action or to, at least, give thought and consideration to the meaning in my own life of whatever it is that has inspired me. Whatever my inspiration is, it serves my journey in some way, contributing to the forward or upward movement, hopefully, of my soul’s growth – and, most of all, it really feels good!

If you are looking for some bliss and joy, take time to become aware of your sources of inspiration; take time to look for situations, people, experiences and moments which you intuitively know will uplift you and, because they feel so good, you will hold in your heart, where you keep your treasure box of special vibrational memories.

Finding inspiration is so often about the internal meaning you give to an external event, making it, then, something precious and uplifting to you.

To my surprise, I am finding daily, if not moment to moment, inspiration that moves me to tears, through the words and e-mails I am reading. Those of you who watch Oprah know that through the gift of television, you are often inspired by her guests and what they have done or by Oprah and all that she is doing to help the world.

Consequently, I feel empowered and wonderful – and wanted to be able to do even more to bring peace to the world in which we live. I felt, also, a sense of transformation occurring within me and, most important, I feel I was making a difference!

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Who Am I ?

Have you looked at yourself in the mirror and asked Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose in life? What is life all about? Or,

Did you have an empty feeling after you bought the latest gadget, the car of your choice or married your girl- friend? If these questions have never bothered you, skip this page, your time has not come to evolve, you’ll come -back soon. If your answer is Yes read-on.

Of what practical use is it for you to have the answer to these questions?

On finally knowing who you are, you become a content, happy, deliberate creator of your life. You understand yourself, your life, and humanity as a whole. You feel safe in the universe. You feel at home, having found your spot and purpose. You have peace and power, joy and love for yourself and life in general. Your problems take on a new dimension as you master them. Life becomes pleasant, abundant, peaceful yet lively, and very, very enjoyable! And much, much more.
And once you know who you are, you know what the rest of life is - and beyond. No one can tell you Who You Really Are. Words can only point you in a direction. Only you can take the final step of knowing, experiencing, being, Who You Really Are. Only you. but then again, you were born to do so, you have the inherent ability to do so.
In fact, it is the easiest thing to do, although it appears to be the hardest. Why is it the easiest? Because it takes no time and no effort to be Who You Are
You already are who you are. It only takes time and effort to be who you are not.
It has been said that illumination, enlightenment, is simply answering and experiencing the answer to the question "Who Am I?" It has also been said that you already are enlightened, and all that is missing is your experience (knowing, being) of it. Experience is often a matter of perspective (fragmented vision), and ultimately a matter of vision (wholesome perspective that takes in all possible perspectives).
Do you have any idea how your mind came up with the thoughts that it now has? Do you not know that your world has manipulated your mind to think as you do? Wouldn't it be better for you to manipulate your mind than for the world to? Would you not be better off to think the thoughts you want to think, than those of others? Are you not better armed with creative thoughts than with reactive thoughts?
From Conversations With God Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch
What is your name? Who gave you your name? What is your identity and role? Who gave you that? Where did you get the contents of your mind from? How did you come to be the person and personality that you are? Do you really know you or do you only know what you have been conditioned and told to believe is you?
So Who am I really?
The Bible says “You’ll know the truth and the TRUTH will set you free.” So what is the truth? The truth is :

Since you are like no other being ever created since the
beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we
stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models,
learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that
is translated only through you and into action, and because
there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other
medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham



He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is
enlightened.
Lao-Tzu

SO what is SPIRITUALITY: It is the unfolding and fulfillment of the human potential. Within you there is an impulse to be the best you can be but even more than that –down you suspect you have the potential to be truly great. Spirituality is the self-actualization of your potential. It is a sense of wholeness, fulfillment being in the zone.

When you have conquered your fears and anxiety of the future and got rid of the guilt and anger of the past. When you feel abundant, you feel connected to everything and have stopped judging people and situations. You are not struggling anymore and things come naturally to you. You are almost drunk with LIFE and grateful for everything. You sing your song and dance to the divine tune. You are PRESENT and alive to all the possibilities that life has to offer.

PLAN THE DAY & LIVE THE PLAN

Every successful businessman I know (or have read about) gets to work early. It’s such a universal trait of accomplished individuals, I’m tempted to say it is a secret for success. “Early to bed and early to rise,” Ben Franklin said, “makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” I used to think that was propaganda from a Puritan. Now I think it’s an observation from a very wise man.
There is no better time to collect your thoughts and plan your day than early in the morning when the office is quiet. Not only are you undisturbed by phone calls and interruptions, but ahead of you is the potential of an unopened day. The solitude promotes a kind of relaxed, contemplative mood. You feel free to think in an expansive way. Later on, when the place is noisy and the pressure is on, it’s difficult to pay attention to what’s important. You feel your attention drawn in several directions at once. You feel the pressure of deadlines. And you may be hit with bad news, which could put you in a bad, unproductive mood.
A Near Perfect Morning Routine

Over the years I’ve studied hundreds and experimented with dozens of time-saving techniques and organizational systems. The simple three-step program that follows is the best of the best.
Step One: Getting Your Inputs (Time: about 15 – 30 minutes)
Start with your weekly to-do list. (This is derived from your monthly to-do list, which comes from your yearly to-do list, which is a derivative of your five-year Life Goal list – which we talked about yesterday.) On a sheet of paper, jot down anything you need to get done. Make sure you give primary attention to your top goal.

Now scan your email. Don’t read the messages. You will get bogged down if you do. Just give them a quick once-over to see if there is anything waiting for you that may need to be taken care of right away and/or will take some extra time.

Next check phone messages, faxes and your in-box. Don’t respond to anything. Your job is simply to organize it all, to figure out what you will do today and what you can delegate or do later.

When you have done all of this you will have completed the first step of your morning routine. You will have gathered up all the work you might want to do that day. You will already be thinking about much of it. You will not have to worry about forgetting something important. And you will have a realistic idea about how much needs to be done.
Step Two: Sorting and Ordering (Time: 15 – 30 minutes)
Now comes the fun part. Get out a clean sheet of paper – or even an index card – and write the date on top. Referencing all the inputs you have just gathered, select 15 to 20 that you intend to accomplish before the end of the day.

Don’t be unrealistic – there is no way you can do more than 15 or 20 significant things in a 10-hour day. And you don’t need to work more than 10 hours a day to accomplish everything you need.

Of the 15 or 20 items, highlight 4 or 5 of them. These should all be important-but-not-urgent tasks. (The urgent tasks you have to do. The important-but-not-urgent tasks will advance your Life Goals. They are critical to your success, but you will almost certainly fail to do them unless you make them a priority. That’s why you are highlighting them.)

To the right of each item, you might want to indicate how much time you think it will take. (I run a subtotal of the cumulating times to the right of that so there is some relationship between what I want to do and how much time I have to do it.)

As a general rule, it’s a good idea to structure all of your tasks so that none lasts more than an hour. 15-minute and 30-minute tasks are best. If you have something that takes several hours to do, break it up in pieces and do it over a few days. It will be better for the extra time you give it and you won’t get crushed on any one day.

You will have now finished step two. Your day is organized not according to what others want from you but according to what you want from yourself. If you have never done this before it will be a major change.
Step Three: Give Your Day a Boost. (Time: 15 – 60 minutes)
Here’s the best step. Do one of the highlighted tasks. If you can, select a task that will make you feel good. That might be something you enjoy doing (I often write at this time because I enjoy the writing process) or something you really don’t want to do (because it will make you feel so good when it’s done).
Do these three things right away – first thing when you get in (which should be about 90 minutes before everyone else) – and you will have accomplished more by starting time than most people do by lunchtime. (Or all day for that matter since most people see most of their day consumed by unimportant emergencies.)
Success is What Happens When You Do A Little More Each Day Over and Over
Success can come in a single windfall but most often it arrives bit by bit. This is a way for you to give yourself a significant advantage over the people you compete with in life.

It actually gives you three advantages. You get much more done. You have to deal with many fewer unnecessary crises. And, most important, you spend a much greater percentage of your time doing things that move you along toward the goals you desire
A Clever Way To Keep Track . . .
This system can be complemented by a file-indexing system a famously organized newspaper publisher showed me several years ago. It requires two accordion folders. One with a pocket for each month and another with pockets for 31 days.

As you go through your e-mail or read correspondence and memos, put aside anything you want to follow up on. Place it in the pocket of the month in which you intend to address it. When that month arrives, there will probably be thirty or forty sheets of paper stuffed inside, which you can sort through and place in some kind of manageable order in each of the days of the month.

Then, as each day arrives, you simply extract from that day’s pocket the files you’ve placed there. This is a very easy way to keep hold of all your vital data and correspondence without resorting to large, messy stacks of paper.

Unleash your creative potential:BE a Creative Genius

Michael J. Gelb, bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, draws upon history's most revolutionary minds to help you unleash your own creativity. With fascinating biographies of all ten geniuses, personal self-assessments, and practical exercises, this book is the key to unlocking the genius inside you!
* Plato -- Deepening your love of wisdom
* Filippo Brunelleschi -- Expanding your perspective
* Christopher Columbus -- Strengthening your vision, optimism, and courage
* Nicolaus Copernicus -- Reorganizing your vision of the world
* Queen Elizabeth I -- Wielding your power with balance and effectiveness
* William Shakespeare -- Cultivating your emotional intelligence
* Thomas Jefferson -- Celebrating your freedom in the pursuit of happiness
* Charles Darwin -- Developing your powers of observation and cultivating an open mind
* Mahatma Gandhi -- Applying the principles of spiritual genius to harmonize spirit, mind, and body
* Albert Einstein -- Unleashing your imagination and "combinatory play"

BE a Creative Genius
Your Creative Genius Mindset
To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality.
When we are creative, we tend to see opportunities and possibilities that we would normally filter out of our personal experience. Creativity allows us to think outside the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and free flowing manner.
In today's day and age, our ability to think creatively about our life circumstances will help us to overcome the never ending problems and challenges that a "normal enriching" life throws our way. In retrospect, there are a plethora of strategies, techniques and tools that we could utilize to enhance our creative capacity, however for many people, these methods would be futile, because creativity first begins within the mind.
If our mindset isn't aligned and tuned into the "creative thinking channel", we will severely struggle to find the creative answers we are so desperately searching for.
The Mindset of a Creative Genius A Creative Genius has a certain set of qualities, beliefs, methods of talking to themselves, asking the right kinds of questions and taking strategic actions that naturally cultivate creativity within the recesses of their minds. By consistently and persistently instilling these traits into your psyche, you can supercharge your mind and unlock your capacity for creative thought.
The Qualities of a Creative Genius Mind
Flexibility:
A Creative Genius is flexible in thought, opinion and in the decisions made on a daily basis. Flexibility naturally encourages "outside the box" thinking which expands possibilities and opportunities.
Possibility Thinker:
A Creative Genius persistently thinks about the possibilities that are available at any one moment in time. They fully understand that focusing on "possibilities" will expand opportunities, conversely, paying attention to "limitations" will only attract a greater array of problems into their lives.
Risk Taker:
A Creative Genius fully understands that without "risk" there can be no worthwhile rewards. They therefore take risks by thinking differently, by taking chances, and by utilizing creative techniques and strategies in a unique, untried and unorthodox manner.
Focused:
A Creative Genius is fully focused and locked mentally on the goals they seek to achieve. They dare not break this lock until the moment their objectives are fully realized within their physical reality.
Imaginative:
A Creative Genius utilizes the full capacity of the imagination to bend the laws of reality -- to find the answers and opportunities they need to overcome the challenges in their life.
Dedicated:
A Creative Genius is fully committed and dedicated to the outcomes and objectives they seek to achieve. They simply will not allow distractions or circumstances to push them off course. If, however, they do get sidetracked, they are quick to adjust their sails to the changing winds and alter their course accordingly.
Patient:
A Creative Genius realizes that creativity is a process that involves patience and careful preparation. They don't try to force answers, instead they proactively make slight adjustments in their approach to open up new perspectives and understandings that will unlock the solutions and opportunities they have been searching for.
Proactive:
A Creative Genius is constantly moving forward towards their objectives. This doesn't mean being "action oriented" 24/7. However, it does mean focusing your body and mind on tasks and activities that keep you moving forward towards your goals consistently every single day.
They always ask themselves "Is this activity taking me closer to my goals, or is it pulling me away?" The answer redirects their thinking and actions towards their creative objectives.
Courageous:
A Creative Genius is courageous in action and thought. They are always willing to try new things and break the rules and boundaries limiting the average mind. And it is for this reason that the impossible becomes possible within their perspective of reality.
Independent:
A Creative Genius is an independent thinker and doer. Yes, they seek other perspectives, ideas and opinions; however, in the end it is their independence that allows for the flow of unique, insightful and creative ideas.
Intuitive:
A Creative Genius is a very intuitive soul. They fully understand that some answers can only be realized when they have an intuitive understanding of the world and the problem they are facing.
Persistent:
A Creative Genius is fully aware if they are persistent long enough over a consistent period of time, that every problem can be solved in a surprising and creative way. For this reason they bring forth a resilient attitude to every challenge confronting their reality.
Curious & Playful Nature:
A Creative Genius approaches every task or activity in a curiously playful manner, reminiscent of a child learning something new for the very first time. A Creative Genius fully appreciates that only curiosity and playfulness will relax the mind and bring forth its fullest creative potential.
The Indispensable Beliefs of a Creative Genius Belief in Self:
A Creative Genius has full confidence and belief in themselves and their own ability. This confidence supports every aspect of their personality, helping them to approach problems with passion and excitement.
Belief in a Higher Power:
A Creative Genius isn't necessarily religious in nature (although they can be). However, they do believe that there exists a higher power -- a collective consciousness or infinite intelligence of sorts -- that helps spark the creative forces within their body and mind.
Belief in Learning from every Success & Failure:
A Creative Genius essentially does not distinguish between success or failure. Instead, they only acknowledge the feedback they receive from personal experience, from the environment and from others. This feedback helps them to transform their creative approach when confronted with the same circumstances in the future.
The Strategic Self-Talk of a Creative Genius
Questions: A Creative Genius constantly and persistently asks questions that are focused on expanding the possibilities of reality and on solutions that will help them overcome the problems confronting their daily experience.
Words: A Creative Genius speaks a language that is optimistic and naturally reflective. They see the positives of every situation and approach it in a reflective manner that expands possibilities and moves them closer to solutions.
The Proactive Actions of a Creative Genius
Proactive Learning: A Creative Genius fully understands that life is a process of constant and never-ending learning and self-improvement. They are aware that the more they know, the better they will be able to think about the challenges confronting their daily reality. As a result, they constantly and persistently seek out new knowledge, feedback and ideas about the world they live in.
Process Orientation: A Creative Genius always has an end goal in mind. However, they are fully focused on the intricacies of their thoughts and actions within the present moment. They understand that within every moment lies the seed of opportunity that will help them expand the way they think and approach their life circumstances.
Journaling: A Creative Genius keeps a regular record of their life experiences, learning and questions within a journal. The simple process of jotting their thoughts down on paper helps to expand their understanding about themselves, others and the world around them. Moreover, the act of journaling progressively guides their thoughts gently down creative channels that naturally expand the possibilities.
Mind Mapping: A Creative Genius consistently uses a set of accelerated learning tools that help to build strong associations between seemingly unrelated ideas within their minds. Mind Mapping is much like an "information process puzzle" that helps to piece together, organize and expand on thoughts in surprising ways -- potentially leading to dramatic and life transforming creative ideas.
These Creative qualities are very much like muscles that must be trained and built over the course of days, weeks, months and years. The more time you spend flexing these muscles and utilizing them to expand the possibilities and your understanding of reality, the stronger, more creative, effective and efficient they will become.
And it is only when you have these qualities ingrained deeply within your psyche, that your true Creative Genius Capacity will finally shine through.

How to Promote Yourself

The Business Attitude

LIKE causes, under like conditions, produce like effects; business success is an effect, and cannot be an exception to the law of cause and effect.
The cause of success is the man who succeeds; something in the man has been applied to his work, and has produced a certain result.
What is it in the man which produces the result of success?
It is not physical strength, although physical strength may be a great aid; all strong men do not succeed, however, and those who do have the ability to so apply their physical strength as to make it assist in producing the result of success.
It is not intellectual ability, for all intellectually able men do not succeed; those who do have the power to so direct their intellectual ability as to make it assist in the achievement of success.
The potency which makes the successful man, therefore, is the power to so apply physical and mental ability as to produce results.
This power must be an attitude of the man himself. It is not a special gift to a few, nor is it a rudimentary faculty which each may develop; it is a position to be assumed. If his abilities and energies are to be directed, it is the man himself who must direct them; and if he directs them he is the potency which causes success.
Every man has the inherent power to direct his own abilities and energies; and every man is conscious of having this power. It is because he has it that he is capable of growth and progress. To make a successful man, it is necessary to make one who knows what things result in success, and who will direct his energies to do those things; and the first essential to this is that he should assume the attitude of self-direction.
Every man is either self-directing or directed by the suggestions which come from his environment. The man who can is always a self-directing man; the man who is directed by suggestion is the man who cannot.
Do not write a goal in the hope that you will attain it by mystical methods; that somehow the 'bountiful universe' will cause this money to 'flow' to you. It won't. That stuff is for dreamers. To make your goals come true requires action on your part.
The man who is directed by suggestion has a "horoscope"; his destiny is decided by heredity and environment; the self- directing man does not allow his thoughts to be dictated by heredity, environment or the stars; he thinks what he wants to think, and if his horoscope does not suit him he makes a better one.
Business success depends upon business policy; business policy can only be formulated by thought; therefore, whether a man succeeds or fails depends upon the way he thinks.
The directed man only thinks the thoughts which are suggested by his environment; and so he can only do what those around him think he can do.
The self-directing man thinks what he wants to think, and can therefore do what he wants to do.
To become the man who can, the first step is to take the attitude of self-direction.
Receive and consider every suggestion which comes from your environment, but do not act on the suggestion; act on your own conclusions about the suggestion.
Digest and assimilate suggestions as you digest and assimilate food; make them a part of your own thought before you use them, and learn to reject any that are indigestible.