To "inspire" can be defined as: to stimulate to action and to motivate. Inspire is a verb, so it is an action word. If we are motivated to action, we create movement that can cause us to do things. When we are motivated we tend to do things "out of the norm"; things that may be above and beyond what we would usually do.  
 
I want to take this time as we introduce our online magazine, INSPIRE, to ask you: what are you inspired to do?
 
It is easy to forget a dream or idea, or to have one and do nothing with it. We live in a world that is busy, chaotic, and full of obstacles. It is much more difficult to take that dream and move forward with it as it requires extra effort, time and new habits. It is a process that requires a learning curve and this can sometimes be painful as we can easily make mistakes (as success always requires an aspect of failure).
 
Within this process we must be able to redefine our perspective of what failure and perfection are; for within perfection there is failure, and within failure there is success. Without failure, you will know that you have tried nothing new; risked nothing and gained nothing. In order to strengthen who we are and reveal the greatness within, we must be willing to risk our idea of perfection. People perfect something or find greatness because of many failures that finally lead to success. However, the interesting thing is that most of these people who are willing to risk and finally succeed, do not see their failures as failures; they see them as a part of their journey in which they are greatful. Greatful for the lessons that help them to gain new perspective and become greater and stronger.
 
Being inspired and creating success is a journey that begins with what some call failure and others see as lessons. The majority of what we do with our inspiration depends on our attitude and our perspective. From there we must make a call to action and move forward with the understanding that we may fall, and if we fall we can surely get back up again.
 
From falling we gain new wisdom to do it better and try again. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I personally know of no one who got on a bike without any training wheels and rode it perfectly without falling the first time. Instead, they usually fell off quite a few times and sometimes even when they had the training wheels on they still fell. Finally after practice and gaining understanding through repeating the exercise of riding the bike, they succeeded in riding a bike. Our dreams that inspire us are the same.   
So again, I ask you: what are you inspIred to do and what action will you take to move forward?
 
Be inspired and take action,
-MY GIRL MJ!