Inspiration: The Catalyst for Action

First, thank you to those of you who have pushed me back into the blogosphere. I have been horribly delinquent but nothing like a little peer encouragement to get inspired again! I'm glad my little stories get you thinking. What's also inspired me to come back has been Lotusphere, IBM Lotus Software's worldwide annual roadshow, which is where I currently am. I just came out of the main tent where we had so many exciting announcements on social software of our own that I will my beloved blog over to our Lotus Connections platform soon. I hope you will follow me there!
In the spirit of inspiration, I wanted to share that we launched the local chapter of the IBM Super Women's Group in January for our women employees, clients and partners alike. This Group has been around for 3+ years but it took a while for it to get going here. We had Ms. Shukla Bose, Founder and CEO of Parikrma Humanity Foundation, speak to our group of super ladies. Shukla is a truly remarkable marketing profressional and social entrepreuner who has won many national and international awards including the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995, the Bharat Gaurav Award in 1996 and the Woman of the Year award in 2000. Parikrma has 1100 children, of which around 550 are girls. They have managed to got 225 children sponsored and need to get many more taken care of. If you believe in children's education, you should consider sponsoring a child or if you are group, you can sponsor a few children. It costs Rs 20,000 per annum to sponsor a child for all three meals, healthcare, family care and total education.
Ms Bose was fortunate to work with Mother Teresa for several years and highlighted to us that she considered Mother Teresa one of the best CEOs because she was able to inspire volunteers from around the world to join the Missionaries of Charity, which has over 1 million coworkers in over 40 countries. Feeling inspired is the best motivator to really do anything. Even getting back to blogging. So who inspired you lately and what did you do?