Visit to learn how to Breakthrough Your Achievement Barriers to finally Have It All. br br High Achievement: The Role of Inspiration br br Many things go into high achievement. I want to talk about the role of inspiration. Here’s the deal about inspiration. It works in a very intriguing and particular way. If you’ve got a goal and you are working toward it, when inspiration is introduced and that is something that deepens your emotional engagement, that gives you a sense that there’s a real importance, something about the thing you’re doing that is in and of itself of significance and importance, and you feel, then, the desire and upwelling within you to do everything you can on behalf of this project or this endpoint that you want to reach. br br That’s inspiration, and here’s what researchers have found. They’ve found that inspiration has a powerful effect on what people can achieve, both in teams and individually. And here’s the really most intriguing thing that all of this research has uncovered, and that is that inspiration helps anybody, but inspiration helps those who have skills like accomplished, well-developed skills in the area that they’re working, those people make the most of the inspiration. So it says that being inspired alone is good because inspiration is different from being emotionally high or emotionally excited. br br There’s something enduring about inspiration. If something inspires you, it continues to feed you each time you tune back into it. It’s not something that has to do with a particular situation or a particular emotional high or an event where there’s a lot of excitement. Most everybody likes to be at an event where there’s enthusiasm and excitement, and you even like going to a ballgame of some kind and yelling your head off when you know there’s no deep significance about it. You just like that process. br br Inspiration is different from that. It is like a deep sense of maybe even the magnificence of what you’re doing or its importance or what it can provide to humanity, or at least what it can do esthetically, like an expression of your skills and your creativity that arrives at being something, a finished product or a message you have to give to people or a book you’ve written or anything else where you pour yourself into it with a deep desire from the heart to make this thing see its final closure, to realize it in your lifetime or in the span of a project you’re working on. br br And it’s this thing about your having more skills. It means that you’ve got some stuff to work with. You’ve got knowledge. You’ve been trained. You’ve availed yourself of the resources and the mentoring that you can get, and you invest in yourself in that way. And when you then have this thing to do, that truly lends inspiration to your efforts, you’ll go much farther than the people who don’t have the tools.