Aspire to Inspire Before You Expire

BY LORI BROTHERS

The above statement – Aspire to inspire before you expire -- has more than one meaning. The initial meaning refers to BREATHING. Yes! It literally means intend to inhale (inspire) before you exhale (expire).

Yet many of you may have translated it the way I intended. Aim to positively influence those around you before you leave the planet.

When we look back at this time in history -- and herstory, I hope that we will see how we all came together and maximized our determined efforts to be the difference for each other, and our world.

Our future is calling us. Yet, it is the song of the ages asking this “current humanity” to LOOK and to SEE where we can be useful for the greater good.  You and I, are the good of the moment. We can reach back to the one aspiring to move forward, offer a hand, and create the bridge to a more powerful and meaningful future.

I am an aspirant of “gooding” in the world. Aspiring "to good" (yes good can be a verb) involves taking action and making steady efforts to rise to an ideal and make it real.  Putting your attention on achieving something that blesses, you can create the good. Plus, you inspire others to good. This contribution can be simple or complex, depending on how you are called.

Linking aspiration to inspiration is like striking a match that lights a candle, and then, uses that candle’s flame to light another candle. When you aspire you inspire. Go for it! The light will continue spread and grow. The earliest written English uses of the word "inspire" give it the meaning, “to influence, move, or guide through divine or supernatural agency or power.” When you show up in the world you also invite  others to do their part. That supernatural agency of stepping up can become the phenomenon we need.