Michael Bungay Stanier is an award-winning author, Rhodes Scholar and a Canadian Coach of the Year. He has a new book being released March 10 and a new video (yea!) that will be sent viral in a couple of weeks.      Watch for it! 

Michael's 8 Irresitable Principles of Fun video has been viewed by over    2 million people, in 145 countries.  One of those countries was listed in Wikipedia as being an isolated island with no inhabitants!!! 

A definite result of leaving the impossible to the Power that be and just doing the action, period!

I asked Michael last night if he ever imagined that it would be that "big" when he started and he said no, that he knew he wanted it to go viral but he had no idea the scope it would reach.  It was just something he really, really wanted to do and he let himself imagine success as big as he could at that time (which was pretty big) and it grew from there.

Last night wasn't about being zany. The Eight Principles are about working in a creative and focused way to do the stuff that matters most.

One keypoint last night was what would you really do if your dream could be achieved with absolutely no barriers, no problems, no restrictions?   

We took our small, very realistic dream that we all think that maybe we could achieve and grew it into a super vision, that would have just seemed ridiculous before last night.

Through a series of steps that pushed gently (it was so much fun we didn't realize we were being moved until we had shifted from what we arrived with to what we said goodnight with) to move outside our comfort zones. 

We said our small dreams out loud to others (which everyone did), wrote it down, and then watched them grow into thoughts we didn't think we had the courage to think about.  Each of us now have 3 accountability partners that we didn't know before last night to stay in touch via emails and phone #s to make sure that the realization of what each of us can do keeps growing and living through actions we're committed to taking. 

Everyone got to meet and know others who personal stories and thoughts touched our hearts.

We had many partners throughout the night on many different questions and it was amazing the depth to which each interaction led us to the next dismounting and shattering of  "I can't" to "Maybe I will", to "This could be a possibility" to "This can be done" to "I'm going to do this" to "This is how it will be done".

Thank you to my "share your dream partner" for truly touching my heart.  

Sometimes being brave is simply living life to the best and the most with what life has given us now; not what we were capable of before.  I am in awe of  your strength and courage to step outside your comfort zone and to want to live fully today for those you love.  

My dream has always been to use INSPIRE-ites! as a vehicle to highlight others. My big dream I shared last night is to have INSPRIRE-ites! events in every community, globally, highlighting the best we all have in our own backyards, being changed by the impact of others and their ability to give the good in themselves so we can grow the good with others.