I love inspiration, being inspired, inspiring others and being an inspiration.

The word inspiration gets banded about quite a bit, so here is the definition:

• Fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.
• Create a feeling, especially a positive one in a person.
• (Inspire someone with) animate someone with a feeling.
• Give rise to.
• Breathe in (air); inhale.

Via en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/inspire

And I love the succinct definition my coach Karen gave me:

“Inspire is to breathe divine life into; to motivate action or a positive feeling in another person. Filling someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.”

That is what I live for; to inspire myself first (not always the case and I still often forget) and then others.

Image credit: Emma Paillex