by Elaina Marie | Feb 3, 2016 | How To Live The Inspired Life
Learn Something New Learning something new is a larger commitment than trying something new, but it offers lifelong benefits. Whether you want to learn a language, a new cooking skill, a new hobby or a new sport, learning something new keeps our brains active and our...
by Elaina Marie | Feb 3, 2016 | How To Live The Inspired Life
Try Something New Inspiration surges when we try something new. When we try a new food, whether we love it or don’t like it, we still feel inspired. Not only do we feel more adventurous and interesting, but we are discovering ourselves with every bite. By knowing...
by Elaina Marie | Feb 2, 2016 | Inspiration: The Ultimate Happiness Hack, Personal Happiness
Use Inspiration to Break Habits It’s not the “what” that happiness focuses on that will help us break habits. It’s the inspired “why.” Goals can hold our happiness hostage and habits are impossible not to ignore when we are focused...
by Elaina Marie | Jan 29, 2016 | How To Live The Inspired Life, Personal Happiness
Don’t Let Your Goals Hold Your Happiness Hostage Goals keep us fueled, inspired, active, focused, and anticipatory. Goals can be powerfully positive and motivating, but also laced with negativity if we aren’t careful. Goals can indicate that something better is...
by Elaina Marie | Jan 29, 2016 | Happy in Your Body, Inspiring People and Stories
Xerxes Whitney has run marathons, climbed mount Whitney, coached collegiate and high school tennis teams, meditates, writes poetry and is a middle school physical education teacher. He is an accomplished athlete who’s been active in and inspired by sports and the...
by Elaina Marie | Jan 29, 2016 | Inspiring People and Stories
Louis was 14 when he had his skiing accident. Living in the German Country side, he skied every day there was snow and skateboarded every day there wasn’t. He also took drum lessons, but that was just “for the girls.” Most of all, he loved sports, being outside and...
by Elaina Marie | Jan 27, 2016 | Inspiration Lists
INSPIRATION LIST 1. WATCHING THE SUNRISE There was a period of time I woke up early to film the sunrise to get footage for the ub:inspired launch video. Although it was always difficult to get out of bed and quite cold, it was absolutely magical to start my day with a...
by Elaina Marie | Oct 27, 2015 | Inspiring People and Stories, South America, Travel
While Ecuador has been our most punitive experience as tourists, it also provided opportunities for great kindness to be extended by a few special people. I don’t have any pictures for this section, so it might border on TL;DR, but if you’re in the mood to...
by Elaina Marie | Aug 1, 2015 | Inspiring People and Stories
The night I interviewed Ronda Giangreco, author of “The Gathering Table – Defying Multiple Sclerosis With a Year of Pasta, Wine & Friends,” my life changed. In my quest to connect with inspiring people to lend stories to my book and to learn...
by Elaina Marie | Aug 1, 2015 | Inspiring People and Stories
Can you imagine knowing that at any given minute, you could go blind? You could walk to your bed at night and wake up paralyzed in the morning? Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most unpredictable diseases that literally can steal critical bodily functions...
