I’ve believed for a long time that having a team of inspirational people behind me really, well, inspires me. (Sorry, not all of my thoughts are mind-blowing breakthroughs :))

Plus, lots of people have asked me about entrepreneurship: How does one get started? Where to go for advice? Who can help out?! To that end, here’s my hand-selected team; I hope you find them inspiring too:

1. Steve Pavlina, Personal Development for Smart People
   Master of the manifested intention, personal development guru and a hugely successful entrepreneur to boot, by public standards and his own.
2. Pamela Slim, Escape From Cubicle Nation
   So supportive and so passionate about helping people to start their own businesses. Her podcasts are brilliant, easy to listen to and packed with information. I’ll be writing about them shortly.
3. Jon J. Symons, Art of Money
   Down-to-earth, completely willing to engage with his readers and listen to feedback. It’s very encouraging to read his blog.
4. Brian Clark, Copyblogger
   Brilliant contemporary, non-fiction writer. Top of the RSS subscription, along with the other greats above.
5. Emily Dickinson (ref: Wikipedia)
   Sticking it to convention to be truly original, superficially through just uncommon punctuation usage, but really through so much more. Plus, amazing output! Beautiful poetry. Oh, and independent too, brilliant.

Bonus: Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland (ref: Wikipedia)
Big grins now! The Cheshire Cat has much to teach us about leaving a lasting positive impression, as well as his immortal words — If you don’t mind where you end up, "Then it doesn’t matter which way you go." (Implying, quite correctly, that if you do mind, you’d better decide).

I’m considering writing extended biographies, especially something on the Cheshire Cat. I’d love to do some investigative journalism and research on him and on Alice in Wonderland (my favourite book) generally. Oh, and some sort of comparative literature on Emily’s stuff.