You can inspire others.

In a previous post, we shared some thoughts about what it might look like for you to “be an inspiration.”  An inspirational person is one who fills someone with the urge or ability to do something. You must be a leader, and you must love and care for others.  In that post, we shared some thoughts on the first aspect of being an inspiration – leadership.   To be a leader, you can confidently be uncommon, different, and rare.

While being a leader is very important to be an inspiration, love and care for others also make a huge impact on the way you inspire others. To be able to inspire more intensely, you must really want people to succeed, and that desire for their success comes from love and care for the other person and their future.  Also, remember that others always come before yourself. If you have love and care for the people that follow you, then you will have a genuine desire for them to reach their full potential.  An inspirational person should have that loving and caring desire for others.

Inspiration can happen anywhere:  at school, on a sports team, at work, at home  . . . wherever you are, there are endless opportunities to inspire someone else. Basketball player Kobe Bryant summed it up perfectly when he said, “The most important thing is to try and inspire people, so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”  

Anyone can be an inspiration to others, it just takes leadership, love, care, and a desire to help others reach their full potential . . . attributes that anyone can have if they choose to embrace them.  So, we want to challenge each of you, will YOU inspire?  Will YOU be a leader?  Will YOU love and care for others?  Will you BE AN INSPIRATION?

Special thanks to Avery Scott, contributor

You’ve got an issue . . . a situation . . . a problem.  You don’t know how it’s going to work out.  Or you don’t know how to make it happen.  Or you have to make an ultimate decision, but you have no idea what the right choice should be.  So what do you do when you don’t know what to do?

Let’s say you drive to a nearby city at night.  You pull out of your driveway with your lights on.  Do your lights shine all the way to your destination?  Of course not. So what do you do?  You drive a little bit into what you CAN see, and you see a little bit further down the road.  Then you continue to drive a little more into what you can see, and you see even further down the road.  And then, at some point, the destination is reached.

What about that issue/situation/problem that you have?  How do you handle it?  You may not be able to see how it’s all going to work out.  You may not see the end result.  But do you have enough “light” to take a step or two?  What steps might you take?  Would taking those steps be worth your while?  If you think they would, take heart . . . take courage . . . and take those steps.  They may be the steps that get you to your ultimate destination.

When is the last time you had a family dinner with your children?  You know, that thing that people used to do back in the 1980’s? 🙂  Put a D.D.D. on the calendar . . . and see what happens.  If it goes well, consider making it regular event.  You may find that, though it takes time and effort, it is worth your (and your family’s) while.

One of the visions for Worthwhile Pursuits, LLC is to allow for and encourage dads, moms and other loved ones, as appropriate and beneficial, to be more actively engaged with their children, including spending quality/fun with them.  Find Me Funzy the Fox™ [ https://worthwhilepursuits.com/shop/find-me-funzy-the-fox/ ] is just one of many various avenues for that.

But you don’t have to spend money to build your relationship with your child.  You just have to spend your time.  Are you doing that?  We believe that you will find, if you have not already, that spending quality time with your children or young loved ones is worth your while.

Every child needs to have someone invest in him or her.  Why not let that be you?  Take steps to invest time into your child.