“Test, experiment, enact what you’re learning. Learning without execution is a big engine with no wheels.”
Yes, we’re having a reversal today: you’re posting the readings.
I do have one reading, though and this one reading is what caused me to change paths today.
I ran across Chris Brogan on Twitter and from there ventrued to his blog. Brogan advises business and people on how to use 2.0 to build relationships. Most of his postings relate directly to business, but it is simple to extrapolate the essence of his message and apply it to education or even to everyday life. In a recent post, Brogan mentions people who inspire him and how they do so. People like JayZ and Stephen Covey. As he promted, I began to consider who inspires me? Who are my role models and guiding stars?
I can think of who my dressing gurus are, the ladies I try to imagine wearing the particular outfit I’m considering. Twelve years of Catholic schools and uniforms killed my sense of fashion and reinforced how little apparel really matters. But when I want to look good, I think of Joset and Martha and ask myself what would they do? Most often, I think of Whoopi Goldberg who fearlessly does her own thing on her own terms. She’s described as being one of the most gentle and caring people one would ever meet and she is intensely private. I would make her my dressing guru only in the sense that she dresses to the beat of her own drummer. I’m reading a lot of Wayne Dyer and his message rattles and shakes me to move to a different place in my life (literally and figuratively). He’s at the core of new age wisdom without all the rhetoric or focus on materialism.
The thing is, for someone to be my inspiration, I want to know more than what they say, I want to know what they reall do. While today’s press makes every move anyone makes accessible to us, we also have to read with a grain of salt. Really, I have few who truly inspire me. So, who inspires you? Who are the role models that help you form your code whether it pertains to blogging, dressing, maneuvering your career path or to life itself? If possible, please give a link so we can read more about your inspirational source.
Cotton Quilts Edi 
More later, Edi. Want to say I am a Whoopi fan for the reasons you cite and I very much think less of what people say and pay far more attention to what they do.
I was a Wayne Dwyer devotee for many years during the new age/self-help era in the 90s. I still believe in his message.
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Yeah, its the kind of thing that takes some thought before responding!
I hope the birtthday celebrations went well?
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Hi Edi,
I’ve been on your blog before, but I can’t recall leaving a comment for you.
Today I decide I’ll leave a comment. There is a blog and the writer and owner of this blog is Elizabeth Obih Frank. Her blog inspires me, she is so creative and the blog is a feast for my eyes.
I know I can’t have a blog like hers and I’m ok with that, because I don’t have the writing skills she has and I’m not that creative. I don’t desire to be like her.
I wonder if somebody can inspire me without me wanting to become or do like they do. I just admire and enjoy her work.
The second person who inspires me is Paul Myers, the owner and writer of the newsletter “Talkbiz”. I like his writing style and his sense of humor. I have bought some of his works.
I guess I have more people who inspire me on different subjects, but I will leave it to these two for now.
Hey Edi, if you want to check that blog I was referring too, check my blog, I just launched my 3rd post and that was a recommendation for this blog.
I just tweeted you to ask you something.
Bye for now and take care.
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It’s amazing how we both seem to be on the same path today, looking for sources of inspiration. I don’t think we’re looking for paths of others to follow, perhaps shortcuts and certainly reasons to believe that we too can be successful. Sometimes, those sources of inspiration just cause us to dig a little deeper and give a little more instead of just settling for our minimal effort.
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I love Wayne Dyer: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
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I have some of the same inspirations as you. I love Whoopi Goldberg, because as you said, she does things on her own terms. I first tuned into her when I saw a special on tv about her one woman shows and she did the bit as the little girl with a shirt hanging over her head like hair. She said, “Look at my hair…ain’t it pretty?” I thought about how truly creative she is and how she really tapped into something. You really saw her…you know 🙂 So I’ve always loved that she is just herself…and that inspires me.
I also love Wayne Dyer and I’ve been revisiting some of his work lately too. I’m about to receive one of his books and some CDs in the mail and I’m really excited. He inspires me with his clarity and when I listen to him I say to myself, “Oh yeah” or “Now that is so true”. He helps me to connect with myself.
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