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What Inspires You?
What inspires will be variable but is always important.
No matter what projects I am working on, I often look for inspiration.
Even when I am striving to inspire — I need to find things to inspire me.
This is especially important when you are not in a good headspace, or otherwise contending with unpleasant matters.
In the past week, I have lost three people who have each meant something different to me. While I was not overly close to any of them, ALL of them impacted my life along the way. I grieve for their passing, but I also am inspired to continue on and create just as all of them created, too.
It is never easy to charge forward in the face of tragedy. But I guess, as part of my grieving process, I need to create. Life is too unpredictable, and who knows what lies ahead?
When it comes to every aspect of life, inspiration and what inspires you is empowering. That empowerment is how you can create new and amazing things — or simply carry through the patterns of life day in and day out.
There are any number of sources of inspiration, and they can be found in any number of places, within and without, and in any size or shape you can imagine. But I want to focus on three specifically. Inspiration from words, images, and…
