inspiration

Inspiration 8.0 CD-ROM [VISTA & OSX]
$69.00
I acquired this for a graduate college course, but never really got into it until we started using it in my job to map out the flow of online instructional curricula. It's easier to use than Vizio and certainly gets the job done. I especially like being able to switch back and forth between the graphic and outline views; exporting to a Word doc is easy and convenient, too. I use it for all my writing development now.

Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
$12.00
Handy. I read the thought for the day to my staff to get us off to a positive start.

365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love
$14.95
Lovely book with good quotes and nice thoughts. A friend bought it for her seriously ill mother to read in hospital and thumbing through it I saw quite a few quotes that resonated with me so I ordered it too. It's a daily reading book, so you dip in and dip out, and it works beautifully on that level.

Edited to add that it's definitely got a religious aspect which wasn't clear to me initially. This has a mainstream Christian feel to some of the commentary.

Igniting Inspiration: A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries
$14.99
This a book that chalenged my unexamined assuptions on why I have so often had the experience forget them , you will never reach them, ect and yet also have felt that Togeather we can work wonders. Now for the first time I can see why I have felt at both ends of the poles in working with groups. When things worked it was so wonderfull and fullfiling and at other times I thought I will never work with another group for the rest of my life! Now I can see why I have felt that way.
Like most people I was never given the Map or the context in which to understand the dynamics that make us humans tick the way John lays it out.
I am in awe of how he demystifies such seemingly complex interactions and shows us how we all can learn to have the ability to inspire others as we also inspire ourselves.
I have read some of the best books ever written, the kind that forever change your world view and leave you with increased hope and compasion while also energizing you to go even further, this is one of those books, I am simply Inspired, which according to John is our natural state!