How Mattie Stepanek’s Words Inspired Millions (inspirational video)

From the OWN YouTube channel: In 2001, Oprah introduced the world to an extraordinary little boy, the poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek. Mattie was just 11 years old when he came into Oprah’s life and viewers learned about this pint-size philosopher’s daily battle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. He and Oprah became very close friends, and when Mattie died, in 2004, at the age of 13, Oprah spoke at his funeral. Then, in the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show, she selected Mattie as one of her all-time favorite guests. Watch to learn more about the child Oprah called “a prophet for our time, who just happened to be dressed in little-boy clothes.

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How She Survived an Abusive Relationship (inspirational video)

From the Goalcast YouTube channel: Sarah Faced 10 YEARS OF SUFFERING To Undo This One Mistake And This Advice Was The Number One Thing That Turned Her Life Around.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Get Ready!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about preparedness. Enjoy!

You heard about the sign posted on a rancher’s fence? On the other side of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you can imagine. The sign is intended to strike fear into the hearts of would-be trespassers. It reads: “Don’t attempt to cross this field unless you can do it in 9.9 seconds. The bull can do it in 10 flat!” Don’t try to cross that field unless you are prepared! And isn’t that the way it is in life? We have to be ready when the opportunity arises or else we will have little chance of success.

Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms. Shelton believed in readiness. Students remember how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard. They quickly protested that the words were not on their level and they couldn’t learn them. Read more

The Other Side of Ego (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: As he stared at the end of his life when diagnosed with cancer, Jonathan was hit with the fact he was not the man he thought he was - He had become the kind of man he would not want to be near. Two remarkable people appeared and taught him life’s greatest lessons, and in that started him on the road to redemption that saved his soul and saved and his life. that started him on the road to redemption that saved his soul and saved and his life.

This television journalist seemed to have everything, until that everything included cancer. Jonathan writes about his intimate journey with a deadly disease. And he also tells a bigger story about how the disease launched him on a pilgrimage to become a better man. He uses his gifts, as a raconteur to show how some of the answers about how to survive his cancer were revealed in his quest for redemption. Read more

Empower a girl, transform a community (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Kakenya Ntaiya turned her dream of getting an education into a movement to empower vulnerable girls and bring an end to harmful traditional practices in Kenya. Meet two students at the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a school where girls can live and study safely — and uplift their community along the way. “When you empower a girl, you transform a community,” Ntaiya says.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: When Others Hurt Us

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about compassion. Enjoy!

As the Hayman wildfire in Colorado begins to wane, those of us living around the perimeter occasionally allow ourselves glimmers of hope that all will soon be normal again. No, the forests will not return for many years. Houses lost will not be rebuilt soon. And displaced families won’t find anything resembling normal for many months. The fire itself will still smolder, we’re told, until snow flies this Fall. But, just as crocuses pushing through frozen ground announce the coming of Spring, so patches of blue sky through smoky haze now proclaim the worst may be over.

The fire, we have learned, was set by a forest service technician. She probably never intended to burn almost 140,000 acres of beautiful wilderness in the Rocky Mountains, but it will be months before courts determine whether or not the catastrophe was purely accidental.Numerous homes were destroyed. Lives of firefighters were lost, not by flames, but an automobile accident as they rushed to help. The cost of fighting the fire and property damage will be in the hundreds of millions. Read more

Which country does the most good for the world? (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: It’s an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out too much money—now have consequences worldwide. But still, countries operate independently, as if alone on the planet. Policy advisor Simon Anholt has dreamed up an unusual scale to get governments thinking outwardly: The Good Country Index. In a riveting and funny talk, he answers the question, “Which country does the most good?”

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Is a Dollar Bill Worth More Than Your Life? (inspirational video)

Jeremy Anderson reminds us in this Goalcast video that no matter where we are at in our lives, we have value.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: No Regrets

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about regrets. Enjoy!

Not many people have heard of Bill Havens. But Bill became an unlikely hero of sorts - at least among those who knew him best. Here is his story:

At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, the sport of canoe racing was added to the list of international competitions. The favorite team in the four-man canoe race was the United States team. One member of that team was a young man by the name of Bill Havens. Read more

3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: How you respond after setbacks is what defines your character. Stacey Abrams was the first black woman in the history of the United States to be nominated by a major party for governor — she lost that hotly contested race, but as she says: the only choice is to move forward. In an electrifying talk, she shares the lessons she learned from her campaign for governor of Georgia, some advice on how to change the world — and a few hints at her next steps. “Be aggressive about your ambition,” Abrams says.
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