Showing posts with label popular inspiring stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular inspiring stories. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Inspirational People


It’s so incredibly amazing how real inspiring stories can transform our lives. It is a total delight to read stories of brave people who have overcome incredible odds in order to reach their goals. There are thousands of such stories where great people have managed to succeed despite facing mental, physical, economical, emotional and social handicaps. We are in awe of such people. Many of us get inspired enough to start taking action in order to change our lives while others will just see these stories as something that occurred because of luck. But no, there is no luck. These great people made their own luck. They managed to achieve simply because they had the willpower and determination to rise above all the setbacks and challenges.

To find the real meaning of inspiring stories, we must look closely at what these people had to go through then only we will realize these brave souls just wanted their dream more than most people. Plenty of inspiring stories are found in almost all the areas right from, politics, history to art, culture and sports. For instance, many of us must have heard of Lance Armstrong who won the toughest cycling competition in the world, Tour De France no less than 7 times. However, we should also know he had cancer but he managed to overcome this deadly disease and ruled the world of cycling.

The legendary basketball player Michael Jordan had failed to make the basketball team during his first year but he still ended up being one of the greatest basketball players of all time. These are the real inspiring heroes and stories. They didn’t just wake up one day and became champions. They trained for day and nights. They worked harder than anyone else and of course, they wanted it more than everyone else. Never ever give up on your dreams. We truly need more and more stories of inspirational people.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Importance of Inspiring Stories

Inspiring stories can have life-defining impact on us. It is not an unusual sight to see someone’s life changing for better after coming across good and inspiring stories. Motivational stories can be inspired from real life events or they can just be a figment of our imagination. Not just children, even adults like to hear good stories. Positive thinking has a calming effect on human minds.

If we talk about effects of inspiring short stories on children, many psychologists recommend parents to tell motivational tales to their kids. It helps in broadening the thought process of the kids. It also helps in shaping mind of young ones. Inspiring stories can create beliefs and values in the minds of the children. They learn to appreciate value of terms like honesty, integrity, hard work and bravery etc.

There is no dearth of motivational stories in English or Hindi. Tales from Panchatantra, Jataka akbar birbal, and other fables are perfect examples of good tales. In English, one can go for stories like The boy who cried wolf, Aesops’ fables, The ugly duckling, Red riding hood, and The hare and the tortoise etc. Tales from Panchatantra have animals and birds as central characters and each of the fable tells a moral lesson.

One can find numerous inspirational short story collections that would make for substance reading for the young minds. Most of these tales are simple and easy to understand. They send a sound and clear message to the readers. Inspirational stories create aspiration. Good, inspirational stories are also available in form of audio and video books.