The One Course

Can a traffic bollard inspire you? What does inspire you? On The One Course we spend time looking at what or who inspires us and how we can use this to enable us to enjoy life more fully, feel more supported and also to grow and develop further by experimenting and creating more in our own lives. (We will come to the inspirational traffic bollard later!)

Inspiration can come from all sorts of places and can affect us on many different levels. Sometimes we hear a fantastic speech, watch a film or read a book and feel utterly ‘blown away’ by what we have heard or read. This can even cause us to change an aspect of our lives from that moment on! In many cases though the happiness we feel from coming across something that is ‘slightly out of the ordinary’, surprising or fun can be equally beneficial to our lives. Becoming more aware and open to these smaller ‘events’ that occur on a day to day basis can increase our overall enjoyment of life and inspire us to create similar ‘surprises’ and inspiration for others.

Here are a few pictures to illustrate what I mean by the smaller events in life.

A stone mermaid Tom and I came across on the beach at Saltburn, UK.
Some of the knitted characters on the pier at Saltburn (no-one knows who the ‘knitters’ are – though I expect someone must know!)
Ahhh now we meet one of the many inspirational traffic bollards to be found at Winchester, UK and probably in other places too!
A beautiful clover flower in our garden in France.
The gate to my vegetable garden (the frame of the gate forms an ‘A’ for Ann – bizarre – but may inspire some of you to create gates with letters on – some letters are easier than others!) and finally some cheese ‘straws’ shaped like hearts.

All small things on one level but all have the ability to bring about joy or to inspire someone else to do something different. Things don’t have to always be the same – we can create surprise and variety in life. How much is only limited by our imagination!

So inspiration can sometimes be HUGE in terms of people doing amazing things, but it an also be small and almost hidden. I would like to advocate that the small inspirations in life can add up to have a big impact overall if we begin to see them. We are all capable of being inspiring in one way or another! Go inspire!