Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential
Issue 6.43 - October 26, 2009 ISSN: 15516571

In Kevin's Own Words

Five Keys to Blazing Inspiration

Everyone I know loves the feeling that comes with being inspired. They like the mental lift, the energy, the attitude, the productivity, the satisfaction and even the way it makes them feel physically.

And as wonderful and valuable as inspiration is, for most of us, it's hard to capture, expand and make last. We want the eternal flame, but far too often settle for a spark as fleeting as the flame provided by a match.

There are predictable ways you can extend the life of your inspirational flame. When you learn these ways, they become important to not just you, but also those you care about, interact with and lead. As you begin to apply these ideas in your life you can help others be inspired and internally motivated as well.

In short, these keys will help you transform your spark into an exciting, lifelong, raging bonfire.

Passion - the Fuel for the Fire

Every fire requires fuel. The more fuel you have and the higher quality of that fuel, the bigger and more powerful your fire. If you want to create lasting inspiration you must be working and living from a place of passion. You must be doing things you love! If you know today how to make money with your passion, and therefore live it 24/7, great! If not, start with tapping your passion in as many ways as you can, as much of the time as you can.

Purpose - the Big Why

Before you can make anything happen, you need to understand and clearly define your purpose. Why do you want to achieve? What is in it for you, your family and those around you? When you connect your passion to a purpose you get excited about, your fire is already roaring; the rest is channeling the flames in the proper direction. Which leads directly to . . .

Goals - the Direction of Your Dreams

Goals are an extremely important part of the inspiration equation, but they aren't the start. Have you ever set a goal and become discouraged, or perhaps even despondent, when you weren't making progress? This is much less likely to happen, when your goals are set in connection with your passion and spurred by your purpose. Goals, in order to channel your inspirational fire, must be your goals and they must be aspirational.

Inspirational Inputs - the Oxygen for Your Inspiration

The first three components can be in place, and your inspirational flames can still smolder. Why? Because life happens! Things change, setbacks occur and we fall prey to our humanness. Just like a fire needs oxygen, we all need inputs that continue to breathe life into our inspiration. Perhaps for you it's your favorite music or movie. Perhaps it is a play or poetry. Maybe it is a seminar, workshop or time spent with the most positive person you know. Maybe it is all of these and more. Whatever your inspirational inputs are recognize that they are the oxygen for your fire. You don't get upset at a fire when it needs oxygen. Neither should you expect your inspiration to tend to itself without additional inputs on a regular basis.

Action - the Small Steps that Create Momentum

Want the ultimate cure for waning inspiration? Take action! Do something! Get off the couch and get going. Lethargy breeds lethargy and will kill your inspirational fire like sand in the campfire. You can't do everything today, and you don't have to. Do something. Take a step. And then keep going. You will get there, and you will move further faster than you realize.

These five keys can give you a lifetime blazing fire of inspiration in your life. You must recognize that the spark you love will never become a raging fire without help.

Smokey the Bear says only you can prevent forest fires. He's right. And only you can create a personal fire hot enough to help you create the life you desire. Don't settle for a spark. Fan your flames every day.

Potential Pointer: Rather than searching for a spark, you should focus instead on fanning your flames. You can create lasting inspiration when you realize your inspirational sources and consciously put those sources to work in your life.

Remarkable leaders know inspiration is important for themselves and those they lead. That's why they look for ways to remain inspired and stay on a path of learning. One way many leaders do that is by participating in The Remarkable Leadership Learning System - a one skill at a time, one month at a time approach to becoming a more confident and successful leader. Get two complimentary months of that unique system as part of Kevin Eikenberry's Most Remarkable Free Leadership Gift Ever today. Kevin is a bestselling author, speaker, trainer, consultant and the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group.

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Kevin's Recommends

Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion
by Gary Vaynerchuk

I've known this book was coming for a several months. It's been fairly widely known that Gary Vaynerchuk, the online King of wine, all things New York Jets and social media and online video darling was writing a book. This is the book he wrote.

It is 142 pages of motivation, social media, personal branding, marketing, business acumen and more all mashed up into one. It's an embodiment of Gary. (If you don't know who Gary Vaynerchuk is, check out his website; spend a few minutes and you'll see who he is and what he is about.)

This book is the natural outgrowth of the personal brand Gary has built, and his success proves his book's point - we all can "Cash in on our passion."

The book talks about your passion, but it isn't a soup to nuts "how to find your passion" book. Gary recognizes the foundational important of finding your passion, but chooses to cut to it and move on to application of that passion to turn it into a personal brand; and then, how to turn that brand into revenue.

This book is for anyone - the recently retired person wondering what is next, the disillusioned or out of work mid-lifer who is looking for a purpose, the housewife who has raised her kids and wants to contribute in a new way, or the college student just trying to determine their way. My high school senior doesn't know it yet, but he's going to read it too!

If anything I've said intrigues you, buy this book. If it seems I've been too vague, buy this book and figure it out. This book can be a mind changer for you on a variety of levels.

But only if you read it.

Buy it now, and be among the first to read what will surely be a bestseller and most talked about books of the next few months.

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