What remarkable creatures we are. I love that people send me the most inspiring things. This week I've seen videos of a one legged tango dancer that made me feel like the reason I couldn't dance was that I had too many legs! I saw a TED video of a man who was an amazing Graffiti artist who was stricken with a disease and now, with the help of incredibly simple but powerful technology, paints with his eyes. The technology to paint with your eyes or the ability to be a brilliant dancer with one leg is so inspiring. These things are in the same category as the awe we feel when we look up at the stars and wonder what's out there?
We are inspired by people, who instead of asking "why me"? ask why not me?
We are inspired by those people because, in the length of time it takes most of us to complain about the problem we're having, those people are half way to finding a solution. We have the same 24 hours in a day as they have. How are you spending yours?
I'll leave you this week with the two questions that the person who instigated the invention of the motion sensing glasses asks himself.
If not me, who?
If not now, when?
C ya next week.
Funny - I woke up thinking of ALL the people who've inspired me and why...had a running list going in my head in the shower. Now YOU'VE inspired me to share those thoughts with all those people! Thank you!
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Mark
We tend to live our lives according to what we really believe on the inside. No matter what we force ourselves to say on the outside so that others think we have it all together, our true beliefs dictate to us our level of success in a given situation. Unfortunately, many of us have been told from an early age, or by someone in whom we've placed a lot of value, that we somehow don't measure up. It's time to really look on the inside and find out what it is we really think of ourselves, and if negative, where that belief system originated. We have to begin to change our view of ourselves. When we begin with "why me" and start to exercise the "why not me", we can actually begin the process of resetting our beliefs in ourselves. When we truly believe we CAN, then there is nothing we CAN'T! Nice blog, Mark!
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