Inspiration & Motivation

We know what motivates us.  A job well done.  Adding value.  Creative thinking.  Seeing our recommendations implemented – and working. Positive feedback.  Interesting, challenging work.  Good working relationships.  Enough money to enjoy what matters in life.

Trying to list the people, places and things which have inspired us was much harder.  Where do you start? We’re still debating the finer points but here’s our starter for ten.  Please contact us to suggest some of your own or help us fine tune our list.

People

Hard to shortlist. In the end we ruled out people we knew.  The top 10 is not yet written but would include some of the following:

  1. Nelson Mandela
  2. Charles Handy
  3. Sergey Brin and Lawrence E. Page
  4. Melinda Gates
  5. Mahatma Gandhi
  6. Mother Theresa
  7. Tom Buckley
  8. Jane Tomlinson
  9. Ranulph Fiennes
  10. Barack Obama
  11. Emily Pankhurst
  12. Sharma Shakrabati
  13. Caroline and Robert Rejdak
  14. Christopher Reeve
  15. Brian Keenan
  16. Amelia Earhart
  17. Aung San Suu Kyi
  18. Martin Luther King
  19. Audrey Hepburn
  20. Sir Edmund Hillary

Places

Argh! Equally tough.  Having worked in travel for years, we’ve been to many great places and, aside the very obvious, we’d recommend the following:

  1. Okovanga Delta, Botswana
  2. Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia
  3. Everest base camp, Nepal
  4. Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
  5. Yorkshire Dales
  6. British Virgin Islands
  7. Venice at sunrise
  8. Honfleur, Normandie
  9. Iguacu Falls, Brasil (and Argentina!)
  10. Algonquin Park, Canada

Events

Events we remember / have experienced, which have inspired or affected us in a positive way:

  1. Barack Obama being voted President of USA
  2. Nelson Mandela being released from prison
  3. The London Marathon
  4. Tiananmen Square
  5. Crisis Open Christmas
  6. Landing on the moon
  7. Live Aid
  8. Remembrance Sunday
  9. The Olympics
  10. The fall of the Berlin Wall

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