3rd October 2014
This inspirational artwork design was originally produced ages and ages ago, back when Hello Inspiration had about two-and-a-half fistfulls of followers on Twitter.

I re-posted it to Twitter and Facebook a couple of weeks ago and had a mini-hit on my hands…
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2nd October 2014
VERY pleased to announce that Hello Inspiration’s first venture into the real world will be happening in the next few days (or even the next few hours!).

We are going to be showcasing some lovely greetings cards and mounted inspirational prints at Darby’s Coffee and Arts Lounge in Urmston, Manchester. Now it’s just a matter of managing the logistics of delivering all this good stuff and getting it all set up!
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25th September 2014

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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23rd September 2014

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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