The word “inspiration” usually means something that mentally stimulates you. But “inspiration” also means to breathe in. The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in ...

Whether you are an entrepreneur, a senior manager at a big company or a consultant in any field, your inspiration is the "fuel" of your business. Inspiration motivates, energizes and empowers us.

Everyone feels inspired in late December to get fit. Then, come Valentines Day, the gyms are empty. Yet Martin Luther King inspired people to march, boycott, and go to jail for years. At some point, ...

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How many times have you postponed starting a project because you did not feel inspired to do so? When’s the last time you couldn’t put pen to paper because you were waiting for inspiration to hit?

“The central, final, inescapable fact is that inspired words create life in us because they are themselves alive,” wrote English classical scholar Cecil Maurice Bowra in 1955. Did he have a point? Is ...

Out of everything executives could be doing to help their organizations navigate 2025, what’s missing is a deliberate focus on inspiration. It’s easy to understand why. In the midst of political ...