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<\/a>What is your source inspiration? What or who inspires you to live and prove productive?\u00a0 Is your source of inspiration a person, a place or thing?\u00a0 If so, what is that source of inspiration?\u00a0 Are you inspired by a spiritual being or religious ideological viewpoint?\u00a0 Is your inspiration your soulmate or an important friend?<\/p>\nWhy is it important to be inspired?<\/em> Whether you are inspired by another individual or something within your own person; inspiration is the motivator within life. Inspiration is the catalyst for prodding you forward.\u00a0 What is the importance of inspiration?\u00a0 If we are inspired, we will inspire those around us.\u00a0 Inspiration beseeches inspiration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE INSPIRED?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019m inspired, I get excited because I can\u2019t wait to see what I\u2019ll come up with next.\u201d When we are inspired, we are motivated to accomplish something in life.\u00a0 We have an urging or a draw that tugs at our hearts, souls, and minds.\u00a0 Inspiration fuels a person\u2019s creativity, inventiveness, and imagination.\u00a0 An inspired individual asks of life, \u201cWhat is next?\u201d\u00a0 Inspired people do not give up, rather they are encouraged by the challenges that life frequently presents.<\/p>\n WHAT FUELS INSPIRATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n How do inspired people prove resilient in spite of the obstacles they may face?\u00a0 \u201cRecent research is bearing that… simple forms of mindfulness meditation actually do facilitate recovery from adversity and thus promote a greater resilience style, and change the brain circuits that are associated with resilience in ways that we would predict.\u201d (Winerman, 2012, p. 30)\u00a0 Meditation, breathing, a purposeful focus, and an internal drive towards improvement<\/p>\n BEING AN UNDERDOG<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Jimmy Buffett<\/strong><\/p>\n People maybe inspired to prove personally resilient at varying times throughout their life.\u00a0 The movie, Here Comes The Boom<\/em>, is the portrayal of a 42-year-old high school biology teacher, Scott Voss, (played by Actor Kevin James).\u00a0 As a teacher, Scott learns of the financial hardship that his school is facing and the probable cutbacks that will affect the various elective programs.\u00a0 As a result, Scott chooses<\/em> to come to the aid of his school\u2019s financial woes.\u00a0 As a teacher, citizenship coach, and general good guy, Scott Voss seeks various tools to bring financial aid to the cash-strapped school.\u00a0 Despite all of his hard work, Scott finds himself barely making a dent in the financial challenges.\u00a0 Reflecting back on his own school training as a wrestler and his recent viewing of a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) fight; Scott decides to pursue the UFC.\u00a0 Combining his own high school wrestling maneuvers with the aid of martial art fighters and coaches, Scott achieves his ambition of becoming a UFC Champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why is it that Scott Voss could prove resilient in the face of the ultimate physical challenge?\u00a0 Was Scott\u2019s training as a high school student in wrestling his secret weapon?\u00a0 When people are faced with challenges, trials, or tribulations; they are forced to face their ultimate potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n FACING CHALLENGES<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCharacter cannot be developed in ease and quiet.\u00a0 Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Helen Keller<\/p>\n Challenges, tribulations and trials strengthen our resolve.\u00a0 Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, \u201cResolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.\u201d\u00a0 It is the application of need; need to survive, need to thrive, and the need to prove an overcomer, that is often the catalyst that helps us to prove resilient in the face of hardships and life challenges.<\/p>\n INSPIRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.\u201d Inspiration is the primary tool of resiliency.\u00a0 If we are resilient, we can overcome obstacles, challenges, trials and tribulations.\u00a0 Inspiration helps us to modify our negative features into positive.\u00a0 An inspired individual seeks to achieve, to attain, and accomplish or bring out the best in themselves and others.\u00a0 An inspired individual may or may not have been encouraged to prove personally resilient by another.\u00a0 In some cases, it is solely our personal temperament that fuels our inspiration and it is the motivator causing us to prove resilient.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Fueling another\u2019s inspiration is achieved through encouragement, coaxing, motivating, and persuading another to be their very best.\u00a0 Inspiring another may be achieved through personal modeling of inspired living or through the pep talk and morale-boosting communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n CHOOSING INSPIRATION <\/strong><\/p>\n Inspiration cannot be forced on another.\u00a0 Even if, you are offering encouragement and inspirational communications; not everyone chooses to prove personally resilient.\u00a0 Choosing to prove resilient is our personal obligation.\u00a0 I cannot make anyone person prove resilient or be divinely inspired.\u00a0 If you want more from this life, you must choose to prove an overcomer and a conquerer.\u00a0 It is through the girding of one\u2019s loins that an individual will prove their ultimate best.\u00a0<\/p>\n A real life example of someone choosing to prove resilient is the story of Michael Oehr, a football player with the Baltimore Ravens.\u00a0 Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Michael was one of twelve children to Denise Oher.\u00a0 His mother was an alcoholic and crack cocaine addict, and his father, Michael Jerome Williams, was frequently in prison.\u00a0 Due to his upbringing, he received little attention and discipline during his childhood.\u00a0 He repeated both first and second grades, and attended eleven different schools during his first nine years as a student.\u00a0 He was placed in foster care at age seven, and alternated between living in various foster homes and periods of homelessness.\u00a0 Oher\u2019s biological father was a former cell mate of Denise Oher\u2019s brother and was murdered in prison when Oher was a senior in high school.\u00a0 In 2004, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, a couple with a daughter and son attending the same school Michael was attending, allowed him to live with them and eventually adopted him.\u00a0 The family began tending to his needs after becoming familiar with his difficult childhood.\u00a0 They also hired a tutor for him, who worked with him for twenty hours per week.\u00a0 He finally emerged as a strong defense football player and the rest is history.<\/p>\n When interviewed on CNN about a year ago, Michael was asked if his life would have been different without the help of his adoptive family.\u00a0 Michael\u2019s answer was unequivocal.\u00a0 He said that it may have taken a bit longer but he was going to get where he is now anyways.\u00a0 He had made the decision to remove himself from the vicious cycle of desperation that all of his family and friends were riding and continue to ride, and he succeeded.\u00a0 At 26, he has become a role model by simply being true to his personal commitment.\u00a0 He also decided to share his experience for the benefit of others and wrote a book entitled, \u201cI Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to the Blind Side, and Beyond\u201d which has inspired so many.<\/p>\n Choosing to prove resilient will develop a healthy perspective of one\u2019s self, of one\u2019s abilities, and one\u2019s personal resolve, which will help an individual to prove personally inspired.\u00a0 Becoming inspired does not occur overnight, but it will occur in time, along with a healthy balance of perseverance, patience, and persistence.\u00a0 As you become inspired, you move forward despite life\u2019s difficulties, trials, and tribulations.<\/p>\n Authors<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Asa Don Brown, Ph.D., C.C.C., N.C.C.M.\u00a0 and Alberto S. De Feo, J.D.<\/p>\n Website<\/strong>:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.asadonbrown.com<\/a> and http:\/\/alby59.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n REFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n Oher, M. (2011) I Beat the odds: From homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond.<\/em> New York, NY: Penguin<\/p>\n Winerman, L (2012) Changing our brains, Changing ourselves. Monitor<\/em> 43 (8) 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.\u201d \u00a0~ Stephen Hawking What is your source inspiration? 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