The Note Project began in April with a star-studded, three-day telesummit that featured best-selling authors and experts on the subject of appreciaton. All three sessions included thoughtful and entertaining discussions, plus practical advice you can use to make appreciation a part of your daily life.
Meet Gail Goodwin. Gail participated in the Note Project Telesummit and has been supportive of the Note Project ever since.
Gail Lynne Goodwin is the founder of Inspire Me Today. She have always been a seeker of information, especially that of a spiritual or motivational nature. She believes that daily performance is directly tied to the level of inspiration she surrounds herself with each morning.
Gail’s challenge was to find a continual supply of dynamic, high-quality daily inspiration. In 2004 Gail booked the name InspireMeToday.com with the intention of launching the site in early 2005. Before she could do this however, Gail went on a trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she was challenged by a Marine who lamented that America had forgotten the troops. Inspired to prove him wrong, she set out on a trip across America. Gathering personal messages of love and support on newspaper scrolls, she amassed more than 18 miles of messages on the Baby Come Back Home Soldier Scrolls.
Just after Congress signed the scrolls on the floor of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C, we departed on a 29-day tour to Iraq and 6 other countries in the Persian Gulf, literally wrapping the love and support of America around each of the 18 bases on the musical tour.
After a concert at Al Q’aim, a remote base in Iraq, a young Marine named Jesse approached Gail with a simple request for a “mom hug”. He explained that he’d been off the base for 37 days, hadn’t had a shower and asked if he could still have his hug. He explained that he’d just turned 19 and hadn’t been touched in 9 months and 4 days. As I hugged him, wiping tears, Jesse explained that his job required him to live in a ditch-alone for 30-40 days at a time. More than 800 other Marines guard this stretch of desert and do the same thing, coming back to the base for only a few days every month or so. Jesse explained that he survives the solitude by listening to his iPod and shared that he’s “always looking for good inspiration”.
Feeling like she had been hit by lightning by Jesse’s request for inspiration, Gail returned home and followed her dream, founding InspireMeToday.com in April of 2008. InspireMeToday.com is a website which provides great inspiration from a different luminary each day.
In an effort to give to a special cause each year and as a thank you to Jesse, InspireMeToday.com gave free Premier Memberships before our launch to our troops-all 2.5 million of them-so that Jesse’s iPod will always be full of great inspiration.
Soon Gail realized that she wanted everyone to be able to fill their cup from our little stream of inspiration, without any barriers-especially financial ones. Knowing the difference quality inspiration can make in our individual lives and collectively, we decided to make the daily content on InspireMeToday.com totally free for everyone.
Visit Inspire Me Today by clicking HERE and start getting your daily dose of inspiration right now!
