Enough Said. Okay maybe not. This picture inspired me to add my thoughts. I’m going to write this up as if I’m speaking to myself. In other words, this is me preaching to myself. It’s not me pointing the finger at others. I’ll probably keep adding to this as time goes on as well. It is my inspiration manifesto. To me, this is the deepest level of inspiration; making the most of life just because. This is your life! This is a simple truth. Profound by all means. This statement is an ‘elusive obvious.’ Easy to understand, hard to fully internalize and make use of. Often times this statement is meaningless until a person experiences some form of death. After that, we realize that this life is finite.

What makes a Grammy-winning musician, an Olympic athlete or a Nobel Prize-winner different from the rest of us? What do they know that we don’t? What makes someone who is successful with their health and fitness different from the massive amounts of people who aren’t? Are successful people cut from a different cloth? In other words, what is behind success. Are there certain principles and processes behind success that if followed would allow anyone to become successful at almost anything they desired? Contrary to the delusion that many people buy into, success doesn’t ‘just happen.’ People who are successful at whatever it is they are trying to accomplish follow certain principles. They go through a process, they put in massive amounts of work and creative energy, and they fail over and over before they ‘make it.’