last years motto was "Force Change" and I think we did a good job of that. That could be the understatement of the year (well last year). Listening to your spirit led you to where you are today. It is hard to hear that little voice inside of us. There were so many noises around us – blocking the little voice that tries to steer us along. It happens to all of us. Many times I have to find someplace to just get away and LISTEN. Then I have to LISTEN some more. Eventually I hear that little voice…and she/he is NEVER wrong. That voice is always right. You just have to listen.
I don’t know how many times that little voice managed to steer me in the right direction. Sometimes I didn’t listen. Sometimes I did. I regret the times I didn’t. Things didn’t seem to go the way I wanted them to…or perhaps the way they should have! I guess I will never know on those subjects.
So ANYWAY this is 2008. 2007 is GONE. Finished. COMPLETE. I hope that each one of us managed to change some things in our life that needed to be changed. We all know what they are. I don’t know what they are but you do! Did you change anything? I know I did!!!! All for the better!
SO HERE WE ARE IN 2008! I HAVE A NEW MOTTO FOR MYSELF. Anyone can have a motto…this one happens to be mine. If someone else picks up on it then best wishes!
The 2008 motto is INSPIRE TO BE INSPIRED! Inspire to be in love. Inspire to find that perfect sunset. Inspire to inspire others (a task that is not always easy). Inspire to be the best that you can be in whatever you do. Inspire is not a feeling. It is an action. It is something that you do. It is something that you inspire to do for yourself. It is making yourself the best that you can be. You don’t have to be perfect to inspire people. That most inspiring people are those who have been through great hardship and simply came out the other side as a survivor. A better person for what they have been through. Find your passion and use it to inspire others.
Inspiring someone is like opening a new window into their heart. It is that feeling that each one of us has experienced when we feel that "rush" of emotions when we know that what we have just experienced or felt has somehow touched or changed our lives. It is taking that knowledge that story and using it to better others.
Learn what inspires you. Is it a summers rain? Is it a rainbow in the sky after a storm? What about a beautiful sunset or sunrise? What about laying on the couch next to the person that loves you and whom you love back? Listening to the ocean at the beach? Watching a shooting star streak across the sky? Is it the fresh flowers of spring? Is it holding hands with a child? Is if the heroic story of someone who has survived a tragic incident? Someone who has overcome sickness and gone on to do great things? Perhaps what inspires you would not inspire someone else. There is nothing wrong with that! Just find that which INSPIRES YOU! If you are inspired then you will be moved to action! That is what inspiration does to us. It drives us to greater heights. From that we then inspire others!
We are each made differently (thankfully). We are each made so special that even that which inspires us is different. This is what makes inspiration so beautiful. It is unique to each of us. Like a fingerprint on our hearts and souls.
So in 2008 let’s strive to not only inspire but to BE IINSPIRED! In order to inspire others you must first be INSPIRED! Make sense? Inspiration feeds on inspiration. It is an action. It is that which motivates us to greater heights in our personal life. You don’t have to work at it. Just be yourself. Do those things that you enjoy in life.
BE INSPIRED – through whatever it is that you believe you can do to inspire and be inspired by another person. Then watch those seeds of inspiration grow and multiply. It is sort of like paying it forward but this time you are using your natural talents and abilities to change a persons heart, mind, and soul. INSPIRE!
INSPIRE TO BE INSPIRED – 2008
