Cheat Sheet of Inspiration

We ALL get down, we ALL get mopy, EVEN ME: Ms. Positive-Spin-for-everything. I've been known to wallow watching An Affair to Remember (the 1957 makes me cry every time), Grey's Anatomy and Gilmore Girls.

I've also been known for 'Dance it Out' moments and '30 second dance party' inspired by Grey's Anatomy (usually without the tequila), combined with the phrase 'dance like no ones watching'. Pick a dance song and just give 'er! If anyone's around they have to join in and it usually ends in a pile of laughter, the ultimate best medicine. If nothing else you get some endorphins. You're responsible for your own comfort no matter where you are or who you're with.

I would like to share with you my master list of things I find inspirational that take just a few minutes to access on the web. Here is what motivates me, if I'm every not inspired I lazily look online and then go to one of these and get booted into a new zone :) Hope you enjoy it.

I know it's a daunting list so just click one randomly and see where it takes you.

THE LINK LIST:
(NO particular order, some I just scan, some I really read. All the videos I lap up)

Videos:
- Marcus Luttrel, Navy Seal. Get up and keep going. 
- Johanna Quass an 86 year-old gymnast  
- Elizabeth Gilbert on genius and creativity 

- J.K. Rowling on the benefits of failure 
- Ueli Gegenschatz flying in a wing suit 
- Neil Gaiman Inspirational Commencement Speech
- Ira Glass on storytelling
- Madeline Albright "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women"
- Courtney Martin on reinventing feminism and our world of suffocating opportunity
- Kathryn Schulz being wrong feels exactly like being right
- Sarah Kay rocking slam poetry 
- John Hardy on the green school dream

- Kiran Bedi a kick-ass female police officer

- Salman Khan on reinventing education, like actually!

- JR:"My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out" 

- Jamie Oliver makes me want to get up and do something

- Hawa Adbi Deqo Mohamed real life doctor heroes

People and sites who have changed my reality: 

- http://www.uniteforsight.org/

- http://www.changemakers.com/ 

- http://www.change.org/

- http://matadornetwork.com/notebook/how-to-travel-for-free/ "what the F? You can travel for free?"

- http://www.vagabondish.com/8-tools-travel-long-term-live-rent-free/

- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090926,00.html

- http://www.growfood.org/farm/15109

- http://www.vagabondguide.com/favorite-bloggers/

- http://expertvagabond.com/about/

- http://www.cofradiaschool.com/

- http://mth2011.tumblr.com/

- http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/

- http://www.kiva.org/

- http://nicoleisbetter.com/ A life less bullshit. I think of her often when I'm about to write a post.

- http://chrisguillebeau.com/

- Vipassina, silent meditation retreat: http://www.dhamma.org/en/schedules/schgiri.shtml

Online work related stuff:

http://mixergy.com/homepage/?skip=yes

www.Elance.com

www.Odesk.com

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/http://earn1k.com/

If you read The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris there's a bunch more in there. 

http://www.unconventionalguides.com/

Chris Guillebeau's free book: 279 Days to Overnight Success.

Oh the Places I'll go:

http://www.panyaproject.org

http://wwoof.org/

http://www.diwyy.com/new-blog/how-to-travel-the-world-for-free-volunteering-on-a-sailboat/

http://samtravels.housecare.hop.clickbank.net

http://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2010/05/living-at-mana-retreat/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Flamel

http://www.paddletothesea.org/ This is a maybe

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=valle%20del%20jerte&oe=UTF-8&um=1&hl=en&biw=1187&bih=628&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

http://www.cci-exchange.com/travelabroad/index.aspx

http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=24768
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/konrad-wojcik-primeval-symbiosis-single-pole-house