What inspires people around the World?

Hello team!!

My name is Elisa, but they call me “happiness” or “happyelisilla”

For more than 2 years I have been asking people what inspires them, the interesting part of it is that among all of the answers that I have gathered, I came to the conclusion that 98% of the people feel inspired by other people. The other 2% felt inspired by nature.

Another interesting fact is that people feel more inspired when they are connected with others, with themselves and with a larger purpose.

So well, my adventure of local guides contributor started a few years ago, and I used to upload as much as I could, on every country that I visited, but that was it…just sharing without a purpose…

After a month or so, I met an extraordinary person at an Art Gallery, he was the owner Luciano Preza, and he made wood sculptures (he still does, and he is amazing) Thanks to that visit, we became friends and we built together a project with 2,000 people that we then put at the Museum of History at Monterrey, Mexico. “Una mano para todos” was called. “A hand for everyone”, we built a tree with 2,000 local people who became creative & painted some hands with positive messages for Alianza Anticancer Infantil (a local Association that helps kids that are battling cancer).

Long story short…I started understanding that everyone has a purpose larger than themselves, larger than just a physical location/business: Restaurants, Businesses, Hotels, everyone…

After I had that experience, the goal was not only to take pictures, but to truly understand what thrives people, what inspires them, and that has become my daily habit.

For the last 2 years I have been meeting at least one person per day. An owner of a coffee shop, an owner of a restaurant, an owner of a gym…people who is creating something valuable for the local community.

And that is when I started learning…when I connected with the people of the locations that I am sharing always :slight_smile:

So I encourage everyone to never stop learning & connecting!!

  1. Share but make it with a purpose

  2. Understand what you are sharing

  3. Try to get deeper and see what has inspired the people running the businesses to create that amazing place :slight_smile:

  4. Once you have understand, share their purposes :slight_smile:

  5. Never stop doing so!!!

You will become a better person, the more you learn from people.

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Wow! Nice post @happyelisilla Thanks for sharing with us.

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Thanks​:blush::blush:

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@happyelisilla …what a great post and similar to your asking people “what inspires you”, I started asking people, “what makes you happy” (instead of “what do you do?”) Your work and observations are inspiring to me so thank you for sharing this (and for reacting to my post so I could look around and see who you are!) BTW, you’re the first person rhat’s also from CA on here…but I haven’t been on here that much yet as I didn’t even know this was a thing until recently! LOL! Cheers!

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Hi Elisa!

Wow, is very interesting your post.

I love travelling other persons, cultures, nature are an inspiration for me.

I like observe how the other people lives also in the small things, like silent or noise, how the traffic flow…

Ciao!

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People around you are possibly not wrong@happyelisilla, your present post is an evidence to that.

Thanks to be so nice in presenting the things.

Best.