PORTFOLIO DESIGN GUIDE

INSPIRATION

What is it?

• motivation
• creativity
• role model
• aspiration
• influence
• guiding spirit/light

• childhood hero
• FROM RAGS TO RICHES

1. What are the most inspirational qualities in a person? 2. Which rags to riches stories have inspired you? 3. Who was your childhood hero? 4. Who are some good role models for children? Who are some bad role models? 5. Who is your guiding spirit?

• What does inspiration mean to you? • Can you think of a moment in your life when you felt particularly inspired? What happened?

• How do you find inspiration in your everyday life? • Is inspiration more important for personal growth or professional success? Why?

CONTROVERSY BEHIND INSPIRATION

• Is it possible to be too inspired? Can it lead to unrealistic expectations?

• Can inspiration come from negative experiences? How so?

• Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be “inspirational”? Why or why not?

1. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)2. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. (Ella Fitzgerald) 3. If you can dream it, you can do it. (Walt Disney) 4. In life you need either inspiration or desperation. (Tony Robbins)

Inspiration is a unique state of a person that drives the realization of talent at the maximum level. Inspiration is considered to be a divine message that is channeled through humans to reveal a truth.