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Giveaway: Win a Copy of Married With Luggage!
When nothing seems to fix your struggling marriage, what should you do? Getting nowhere with counseling and considering divorce, our Luminaries Betsy and Warren Talbot realized they needed to put their relationship first.... which resulted in them getting rid of everything and traveling the world! Their global adventure taught ended up teaching them not just about the world around them, but also about their own relationship with each other. Betsy and Warren share their journey in their new book, Married with Luggage: What We Learned About Love by Traveling the World. Today we are excited to both offer an excerpt from Married with Luggage for you to get…
Song for the Special
By Marina Keegan, Author of The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories. Every generation thinks it's special -- my grandparents because they remember World War II, my parents because of discos and the moon. We have the Internet. Millions and billions of doors we can open and shut, posting ourselves into profiles and digital scrapbooks. Suddenly and totally, we're threaded together in a network so terrifyingly colossal that we can finally see our terrifyingly tiny place in it. But we're all individuals. It's beaten into us in MLK Day assemblies (one person can make a difference!) and fourth-grade poster projects (what do…
Happy 6th Birthday, InspireMeToday.com!
Six years ago, we launched a little website to provide daily inspiration, to remind us of our connection to something greater, and to help us remember our own divine magnificence. Six years, hundreds of Luminaries, and thousands of inspirational essays, quotes, and photos later, we're now shining light into more than 150 countries and inspiring more than 25 million people through our site and partner networks! To Sir Richard Branson, Ellen Whitehurst, Cirque du Soleil, Mariel Hemingway, Derek Sivers, Jack Canfield, Dr. Joe Vitale, Seth Godin, Marci Shimoff, Neale Donald Walsch, Gini Gentry, Arielle Ford, and every single one of…
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Inspired Adventures Launches Today
InspireMeToday.com is proud to announce a new opportunity for you to connect with yourself, other like-minded individuals, and the Universe. We invite you to join our founder, Gail Lynne Goodwin, for an Inspired Adventure in the mountains of Montana. Our twelve adventures in 2014 will be hosted at Dreaming Bear Lodge in Whitefish or at the brand new Glacier Bear Retreat inside the boundaries of Glacier National Park. Our adventures include recreational opportunities, a mastermind, and time for introspection and creative endeavors, plus they're 100% fun. Depending upon the season and the location, participants can enjoy downhill and cross country skiing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, sleigh-riding, hiking, swimming, stargazing…
Introducing The Amazing New InspireMeToday.com!
We are so excited to launch the new InspireMeToday.com! We've been working for the past few months to create this new and improved experience for you. We love the beautiful new design and think you will too! Some of the highlights of the new site include.... Great New Functionality You'll notice right away that our homepage has changed dramatically to highlight new inspirational content of all types! Each day's Brilliance will be posted front-and-center so you can access it right away. You'll also find a nifty slideshow of recent Inspirational Photo Quotes, this week's Inspired Interview, excerpts from our latest…
Celebrating Inspire Me Today’s 5th Birthday with Gifts for YOU!
Today, InspireMeToday.com celebrates our fifth birthday. Since our launch in 2008, we've featured nearly 1000 different Luminaries and have inspired millions of people in more than 150 different countries around the world. We receive thank you emails from folks telling us the difference that a particular inspiration made in their life... and that makes us smile. We are proud of the difference we are making, and wanted to express our appreciation to you, for we couldn’t have done it without your continual love and support. In appreciation to you, our loving community, we want to celebrate our birthday by giving…
Important Update From Inspire Me Today
We hope this post finds you enjoying a beautiful August. While you've been barbecuing with friends, hanging out at the beach, hiking the mountains or enjoying the best of the season, we've been busy making InspireMeToday.com even better for you. We've made some changes to improve your Inspire Me Today experience: Today's Brilliance is now displayed in full on our homepage, and in the morning newsletter, with a direct link to comment. (For those of you who haven't signed up yet for our newsletter, you can now do so with the sign up field directly below Today's Brilliance on the homepage.) This makes it…
Embracing In Between
By Brittney Schering. Life comes with a little secret: Every plan will not always unfold effortlessly. It is important to know that THIS IS OKAY. It is all a part of becoming who you dream of being, doing what you’re destined to do, and living that life that you’ve always wanted to. This is a lesson that I have recently come to realize, and am currently in the midst of grasping. So, I started a new blog to document what I call my in-between experience: coming back to Michigan after living a glimpse of my dream, writing for the summer…
The Power of Choice
By Roslyn Franken. My name is Roslyn Franken. I was born to a mother who survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and a father who survived the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Japan, as a prisoner of war. The only thing they said kept them going was their hope and courage to face each new day with a renewed determination to never give up. This attitude was their choice. When diagnosed with cancer at age 57, my mother told the doctor, “Hitler didn’t get me, my cancer won’t get me.” Doctors gave her two years to live. She died 21…
Be Here Now
By Patty de Llosa. Be Here Now. A message that can change our lives! When we hear these three little words from our teachers or read them in books, it sounds so simple. But when we try, the act is not easy. That's because three worlds have to come together simultaneously in us. First, to focus on the body, the house of our Being. To do this, bring the mind’s attention to follow the sensation of your physical self, the breath that comes and goes, the blood that flows, the muscles that tense and relax, and the energy that moves…
Jack Draws Anything!
Jack Henderson, our newest and one of our youngest luminaries, is a mere school boy, but he's already raised over £13,000 for the Sick Kids' Friends Foundation in Edinburgh. Jack has been accepting requests to draw pictures in return for donations to the foundation, which supports the children's hospital his baby brother Noah regularly visits for chest problems. Here's one of our favorites! Jack has many amazing pictures up on his site, jackdrawsanything.com. With over 500 picture requests, he has had to stop taking new requests as he is so busy, but if you enjoy his pictures, we hope that you will consider visiting…
Coming Together to Make the World a Million Times Better
Mike O'Mary believes every one of us has the power to change someone's life. When Mike was a teenager, his brothers and sisters were placed in an orphanage. He moved away to live with his father, but he visited his siblings whenever he could. While Mike always tried to do something special during the time they spent together, he never really knew what his brothers and sisters thought of him or his visits with them. But many years later, Mike received a letter in the mail. He opened it to find a hand-written note from his youngest sister. In that…
Two More Days to Celebrate our 2nd Birthday!
We're 6 days into our week-long 2nd Birthday Celebration for InspireMeToday.com and the party's still going strong! If you've been following the Birthday Contest you know that our celebration ends at midnight tomorrow. So, this is your last chance to join in the fun to win some pretty outrageous FREE gifts. As a part of the contest we asked our luminaries to help us celebrate. They showed up with some incredible gifts including: - Free personally autographed books on various topics - A complete SEO package from Chris Kauza and Fett Marketing - A one-hour marketing consultation with marketing maven…