I was reading a newsletter from Dan Kennedy the other day where we was talking about inspiration, one of my favorite leadership topics.  He wrote, "The New American Dictionary defines inspiration as a process; the process of being stimulated to think, feel or do something creative. . . and as an event; a sudden brilliant or creative idea."

After reading that I went to Dictionary.com to look up the word for myself.  I found another interesting definition on their list - "The act of drawing in, especially the inhalation of air into the lungs."  If this isn't a process, I don't know what is!

I find far too often that everyone, leaders included, are waiting for an inspiration event - for themselves or others, rather than consciously creating an inspirational process to prdictably create new ideas, thoughtsand creative actions.

Leaders who think consciously about creating processes, environmanets and cultures that support inspiration and inspirational thinking will always be the most successful. Of course thinking about it this way holds us more accountable and suggests a discipline in our thoughts and actions - two reasons why so many of us probably keep looking for events (and why those leaders who don't are so much more successful).

Your leadership challenge and activity today is to identify three things you can do to create opportunities for inspiration to emerge. 

I hope you will be inspired to share your ideas as comments to this post.

Labels: Best Leadership, inspiration, team leadership

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Ok so this is a video of a television commerical.

Even so, it is required viewing. But only if you:

- believe you can make a difference in the world
- want to move towards your potential
- enjoy being inspired

It deals with our potential (which you probably figured out from the title of this post), a topic we deal with every week in my newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, and that I wrote about earlier today on my other blog

It will be your best 1 minute investment today.

Also posted in Learning.

Labels: inspiration, Unleash Your Potential

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Some time ago I wrote a poem titled Remarkable Leadership.

Recently my team worked their magic. Jenny Pratt put it to music and Brett Atkin loaded it on a webpage.

I believe the results are remarkable.

Judge for yourself here.

If you watch it, please come back and post a comment. If you love it, please pass it on to others.

Also posted in Leadership and Learning.

Labels: inspiration, poem, Remarkable Leadership

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