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Hello Inspiration will be participating in a Charity Shopping and Pamper Evening in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support on Thursday 30th October from 7pm to 10pm.

This is a great opportunity to support some local business, get relaxed and even get some Christmas shopping sorted! All whilst supporting a truly worthwhile charity. Any questions about the event, please contact Ms Ruby Events on Facebook.

You hear it all the time… “Follow your passion”, or the alternative “Do what you love”.

It seems like the new mantra for entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs in today’s anything-is-possible world. And sure, it sounds tempting – I mean, who doesn’t want to follow their dreams, right? What they don’t tell you is why the ‘follow your passion’ approach works…

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We like to kid ourselves sometimes that we can’t do action X because of reason Y…

‘I can’t go for the promotion because I’ve never done that job before’

‘I can’t learn a new language because I don’t have the time’

‘I can’t get into a relationship because I don’t like the dating scene’

‘I can’t do action X because of reason Y’

Now ‘reason Y’ may be very convincing (or it may not) but we need to be careful that we’re not just a tiny-weeny little bit glad it exists.

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With Christmas approaching (eek!), I have been starting to think about gifts that will go above and beyond the usual plastic toys and cutesy clothes that we all normally get for the children in our lives. I have been thinking about how maybe inspiration doesn’t have to be an adults-only thing – why not start to try and inspire children too?

With that in mind, I set my brain working on a new collection of inspirational artwork designed especially for kids. I wanted to produce a some designs which would suit being displayed on a child’s bedroom wall, and would give the kids a set of guiding principles to consider as they grow up – some ‘Life Lessons’.

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Welcome to the third instalment of the Inspiring the Inspirers project – a visual design project that examines the nature of inspiration, and how it affects different people in their daily lives.

I have been working with Steve Brennan on a unique design for the last few months. Steve runs Bespoke | Web Specialists, a web agency in Preston in the north-west of England. The agency started 13 years ago and Steve has now grown it to an established company with 13 full-time permanent staff. The company was a finalist for Creative Business of the Year at the 2014 BIBAs (Be Inspired Business Awards). He is truly an entrepreneur at heart, having run businesses from the school playground before the internet was even a twinkle in a modem’s eye.

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