The Id community ~ stories we share
Inspiring others…
I read your blogs and I have been a follower on your FB page for many months now. I like the posts and enjoy the tweets. It’s always nice to check in and hear what you guys are up to. I like the message behind the whole idea of inspiring others through yuor clothes. I didn’t really get the impact of this clothing until I started wearing a few shirts myself. Originally, I just bought 2 shirts b/c I liked the designs and words. Earlier this morning, I forgot that I was even wearing it and then some random person walked up to me and complimented my shirt. I have had some really cool conversations with complete strangers because of these shirts. Because happens again and again, I thought I would finally shoot you a message telling you about my own experience. Oh, some cute chick said she liked my ‘be happy’ shirt a while back to. I didn’t get a date or anything out of it but she had the most beautiful smile. Random but had to tell you guys. A buddy of mine bought an inspire shirt after watching that happen. lol! Thanks for doing what you do. -Mike
Letting Others Be…
In life, we try and mold everything around us to be exactly what we desire, when in reality, the universe just doesn’t work that way. When we try to change the people in our lives and get stuck telling others how to behave, we are only creating more struggle and unhappiness for ourselves. The legendary speaker/ philosopher, Wayne Dyer, states that, “Enlightenment is accepting what is.” Can you be at peace today with how others are acting around you? Can you honor the moment before you and not let it stir up feelings of anger, confusion, resentment or anything else that is unpleasant? Realize that we cannot change people. It is only the other person that can change themselves. Our responsibility is to ourselves. When we work on ourselves and start placing all of our attention on what we want and desire, we will receive that in our lives. It’s that simple. If you only look for the good in others, that is what you will see. Overtime, in different relationships, we start focusing on what we don’t like about someone and we start judging and criticizing them thinking that it’s their fault we are unhappy. It is not what is outside of you that causes your unhappiness. It is what is going inside of you that determines the quality of your life. When you truly realize this, you start to really sense how powerful each of you are and that you are responsible for your happiness. Don’t let others shake you. Just smile and allow those around you to be whatever they choose to be. The only responsibility we carry towards others is to love them. That’s it. Love them for who they are, what they choose to believe and what they decide to do in life. They are on their own path just like you are on your own path and the only person that knows what’s best for you is yourself. Own your power and take charge of YOUR life! One love everyone. Blessed Be:)
Being Inspired by the Athletes of the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is an exciting time for us all. The world gets to watch athletes that have committed themselves to various goals and are trying to accomplish their desires on sport’s biggest stage. What all of these extraordinary people have in common is the ability to define their innermost desires and goals in life and set a plan to go after and achieve them. Most of these athletes have spent a majority of their lives trying to attain perfection in their sport and compete in the Olympic games. Allow these athletes to inspire you to create your own goals in life. Go after your heart’s desires on what you would like to personally accomplish in the weeks, months and years to come and refuse to accept anything less than the achievement of your goal. These athletes have been knocked down repeatedly in their journey to Vancouver but each time, they maintained their focus and kept striving towards what they ultimately wanted. “It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get back up.”- Vince Lombardi
Being Thankful
Let us be thankful for this wondrous day for the beauty that comes in so many ways. Whether it be a compliment from someone passing by or watching a child amazed at the sight of a “doggy.” There are so many things to be thankful for every moment. The clean air we breathe and the clean drinking water that is always available to us. The wide selection of delicious food we have each day to choose from to satisfy our appetite. For the music we can listen to and the friends we can always count on having fun with. For our family and loved ones that make us laugh and help us remember what’s truly important in life. For our health and the ability to run around like we once did when we were a little child. For the cars that get us to and from places. For the seasons that change and keep things new and fresh in our lives. For the opportunity to have access to a computer to even read this simple message. The are many, many more things to be thankful for. Thanksgiving this week is a reminder to step back and become aware of all that we are thankful for. By allowing ourselves to be thankful on a daily basis, we align with our highest self that is capable of manifesting anything and everything. It is very simple. Just “Be Thankful,” now and every moment to come for all that is. One love.
The Power Inside Us
Do I want others to be nice to me? Do I want others to respect me? Do I want my loved ones to support me? Do I want to be happy today? Do I want to ace that interview I have tomorrow and know that it’s going to be great? In every moment, we are deciding what happens to us and creating the life that we live. Unless we have transcended the human drama like the ancient masters of our past, most of us live in a cause and effect kind of world, otherwise known as “karma”. If you want others to treat you in a positive way, start treating everyone you come across in your life with the upmost respect and love. What you give out to people whether it be the thoughts you think about them, the words you say or actions you take, it always comes back to you in some form or another. This can be quite freeing to learn because we then realize that our life is up to us and it is possible to have the life we so desire. We can let go of the drama and the things of the past that used to upset us. By becoming aware of this inner power we all have and realize the limitless capabilities of our minds, we start to choose positive thoughts to give attention to more and more. When we let go of limiting thought and any fear we have about something, we start to regain our power and create the kind of life we really want. If you don’t like what you are creating then start creating something else by giving your full attention to what you do desire. With practice, we spend more time focused on what we want and less time on the things we don’t want. When you want something and there is no contradicting thought about it, it must come to pass and will become part of your reality. Just ask yourself, what am I creating today?
Attitude is everything
A new week begins. What kind of week are you going to have? Are you going to take control and pre-determine that you are going to have a great week? All too often, we allow ourselves to just blow with the wind and think that everything just happens to us whether it be good or bad. Our attitude creates the foundation for our outlook on life and what we experience on a day to day basis. It’s up to us whether we want to look at our glass as either being “half full” or “half empty.”
We already know where the unhappy road of a pessimist will lead to. Don’t allow yourself to be a part of that path. The world needs you to be your best self and inspire others to do the same. Life is supposed to be full of fun and enjoyment. We are supposed to be happy. When we are happy, we feel better, our health is better, we attract the wonderful things we really want in life. Make a decision this moment, that today and everyday this week is going to be an awesome day for you and all those around you. When you look for the best in everything, you will see the best in all. An unforeseen mishap could turn into a huge blessing with the right perspective.
Your attitude determines your level of happiness so develop and maintain a positive attitude throughout your entire day and expect everything to always work out for the best for you. It always does whether we recognize that at first or not. Attitude is everything so make a promise to yourself today to have an amazing day. Keep that focus on having a great week. If something happens that shakes you a little, step back and recognize it’s all working out and maintain the attitude you need to ensure your happiness. One love.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Do you like what’s coming into your life?
So many people always wonder why certain things continue to happen to them in life. They wonder why they continue to “date” the same kind of person or why their new job is something that reminds them of how their last job was. They might think that there is some mysterious force out there in the world that loves to make their life difficult. This could be further from the truth.
At the core of all of this is something called the law of attraction. Quite simply, what you think, focus and speak about in life will continue to come into your existence. Science has even proven that energy attracts like energy. So, if you love how your life is and all that keeps coming into your life, keep doing what you are doing. Keep being appreciative for all the wonderful things that occur and continue to focus on all the amazing things that make up your life.
On the other hand, if you have been bummed out lately and living the “poor me” attitude, step back and become aware of what you are given your focus to every moment. If you are worried and fearful about something, you are only going to attract more things in life to worry and be scared of. If you snap out of that little funk and start giving energy and focus to what you DO want in life, your momentum will shift and the more moments in your day you are thinking about the great things in life and the wonderful things that will make you happy, your life will begin to show examples of this everywhere.
It can all change in a moment for you. The very second you realize you don’t want to experience this or that anymore, shift your attention to what you do want. Once you have a clear picture in your mind of what you do want to have in life, keep focusing on that and know within that all this good is on its way. Speak about it happening, visualize that it will happen and I can assure you that with patience, the things you want will start to show up everywhere.
Our clothing at Inspire designs was created to help people keep a positive mindset so that they attract more of what they want in life. If you focus on being peaceful and having calm thoughts, that will be your existence. Life is meant to be happy and full of joy. So go now and make it so. One love and have a beautiful day!
Keeping our “ommm” outside of our yoga practice
For those of us that practice yoga, we might do so for many reasons. It could be about looking better and losing weight. For so many others, it has to do with the peace we develop inside us by practicing this healing exercise that cleanses our physical body as well as our minds. Yoga tests our self-imposed limitations and helps us transform into higher states of being. Just when we think about giving up in a posture that seems “too exhausting”, we find an extra source of strength that carries us through. Yoga teaches us to be present and to explore the softer side of our character. While it might be rather easy to be calm and collected in our yoga practice, we find too often that fellow yogis do not carry this state of peacefulness outside the studio. We ourselves can be guilty of this as well. When we allow people, places and things to pull at our consciousness, we allow our own powerful energy to drain. Living like this causes us to let our emotions run our life and we react to outside influences, instead of consciously creating what it is we truly want. Having triggers outside our yoga practice to keep our focus in check and in alignment with who we truly know we can be helps us live a more fulfilling life. It could be a book, a quote or a certain type of music that keeps us in the right frame of mind. We at Inspire designs thought it would be best to create clothing to help people maintain a positive focus in their days and positively impact others in the same way. When we surround ourselves with positive people and things that help us trigger a positive mindset, our lives can be nothing short of great. One love.
Feeling Much Better Now
I read your most recent blog a few nights ago when I was cruising through my Facebook. Sure enough I woke up yesterday in a pretty sour mood. I had gone out the night before and had some fun catching up with old friends. From the splitting headache I had and the fact that I was really hungry for something that would take the pain away, I managed to throw a “One Love” shirt on and some pants and went out for lunch. As I was waiting to order my food, a person standing near me complimented on my shirt. We ended up talking for a minute before they left, very nice guy. I had my lunch and was walking home when two older women gave me smiles as they looked at my shirt. One of them pointed to the other and said they liked it. Just like that, I started feeling better. I don’t know if it was because of the food or the nice people that I crossed paths with, but I’m glad I threw that shirt on this morning. I thought I’d share this cool story. Thanks ID for doing what you do. I notice some of the blogs have “One Love” at the end of them. I love that. Ian- Brentwood, CA
How to jump start your day and bring more inspiration and enthusiasm into your life…
As much as we want every day of our lives to be fantastic, there are those times that we wake up feeling less than inspired, a bit groggy and just not pumped about what’s to come. So how do we turn that around? Well for starters...Become aware of how you are feeling! Awareness is the first step in realizing what we do and don’t want in that moment. If we do not feel that great, it’s up to us to change our focus. By shifting our focus to things that do make us happy in that moment, we start to develop a better feeling attitude within ourselves. Wise people will say, “Start your mornings off in gratitude.” When we shift our focus to what we appreciate in our life, the weather that day, the way our dog makes us feel, a funny text from a friend of ours, we start to focus more on what we do like. When our thoughts shift to more of what we do want and enjoy in life, we attract more of the same thoughts. Now, all of the sudden our bla morning has just changed into something much better. It’s all about momentum and focus. Once we get that momentum going, we start becoming aware of how great life really is and all the wonderful things that make up our life. It’s all working out just the way it should be so love all parts of it. When we feel that positive energy within, we have the fuel to go out and inspire others! Enjoy the day and INSPIRE…
Reality Check
Earlier this afternoon, I was in a rather difficult yoga posture in the class I attend at Yogaworks every week. I was in my head all day from what happened at work and managed to carry this with me into class. It was towards the end of us holding one of our arm balancing poses when I lost concentration and looked over at a girl right next to me. There she was wearing a “Be Happy” shirt. When I saw her shirt, I lost it and busted up laughing. It made me aware right then and there how absurd it was for me to continue holding onto something that happened hours before and allow that to affect my level of peace in a class I go to develop more peace in my life, the irony hugh!!! I guess you could say that signs always come to snap us out of the little things that grab our attention if we remain aware that is. I introduced myself to her after class and later learned more about the shirt and this company. I decided to check it just now on the web and I’m a fan. It certainly helped me check myself earlier and I am very thankful for that. Look forward to receiving my manifest shirt. Good work guys..The world needs more of this! Big Fan, Chris, Venice, CA
Growing Together…
In a world full of confusion and constant change, coming together and helping each other grow establishes oneness and builds of community of service where each of us has the best interest for one another. We @ Inspire designs are interested in creating inspirational messages and designs that positively impact others. Through your input and advice, we are growing the company into something that all of you are asking for. We are offering different styles and colors because of the many requests that we have received. We strive to serve you better, the inspirational community of the world that is interested in making a positive difference on our planet today. We always welcome new ideas and sincerely thank you for inspiring us and helping us grow into greater service. One love.
