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True Inspiration!

What is Your Excuse?

          Stephen Hawking is 69 years old and suffers from multiple lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease that progressively restricts their movements. As far as I know he just moved 3 fingers of the left hand and still move around with an electric wheelchair, speaks through a synthesizer attached to the chair, lectures and writes the best books on physics. And he still has an incredible sense of humor; brand meetings with time travelers, and jokes about his relationship with Isaac Newton:

"I am the heir of his chair at Cambridge University, but with an advantage: mine is electric"

Long live Stephen Hawking! You made your live better.

           Thanks to Science and Determination.

With all surviving odds against him, Peng Shulin’s body was cut in half by a large transport truck in 1995, leaving his doctors shocked and amazed by his survival. Not only has he lived to tell the tale, he’s now learning to walk again.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2007/07/09/miracle-man-walks-again-513316/

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/peng-shulin-miracle-man-from-china.html

   The excuse of the cold, ice and snow was just that, an excuse, don't make excuses.

        Adversity is a mirror that reveals one’s true self. Chinese Proverb

        You never really know what you can do until you have had your limits tested through extreme adversity. No matter how much training you have had or how much time you have spent pondering certain situations, it is all speculation until you go through the experience of true hardship or danger.

        It is during these times that your true self comes to the surface and reveals who you really are. You can no longer bluff your way through, if indeed that is what you have been doing (hopefully it is not what you have been doing).

         The bully can talk the talk, but often when someone stands up to him, we find that it has all been a bluff. He is not the tough guy that he portrayed himself to be. This never comes to light until someone calls his bluff and reveals his true nature. It is through adversity that we actually know who someone really is deep inside. During times of hardship people tend to give up their concern over their image and the true self appears.

         Most people have a carefully protected façade built around them. This is the image that they present to the public, and many times it is quite different from who they truly are as a person. The warrior’s true self and the everyday image that he portrays should be one and the same.

         He has no need to hide his true self because he lives his life as a man of honor and is prepared for the hardships and dangers which he may face during his lifetime. He is a man of sincerity. When he looks into the mirror of adversity, he simply sees the same image that he sees every day – the warrior. Bohdi Sanders ~ excerpt from The Warrior Lifestyle

      Dayton's first 5K run to benefit Wounded Veterans sponsored by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #24, Charles County Maryland... Way to go Dayton! Ran it in 36:44

     Tim Harris who has Down Syndrome owns his own restaurant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6He0FWoFj0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

     Adalia Rose has Progeria but isn't she something!

     One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.

            What a courageous woman! Taking the lemons of life and making lemonade for others.

           When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed "The World's Ugliest Woman" in an 8-second-long YouTube video. 

           Born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it, Velasquez has no adipose tissue and cannot create muscle, store energy, or gain weight. She has zero percent body fat and weighs just 60 pounds.

            In the comments on YouTube, viewers called her "it" and "monster" and encouraged her to kill herself. Instead, Velasquez set four goals: To become a motivational speaker, to publish a book, to graduate college, and to build a family and a career for herself.

            Now 23 years old, she's been a motivational speaker for seven years and has given more than 200 workshops on embracing uniqueness, dealing with bullies, and overcoming obstacles. She's a senior majoring in Communications at Texas State University in San Marcos, where she lives with her best friend. Her first book, "Lizzie Beautiful," came out in 2010 winning the hearts of many around the world and her second, "Be Beautiful, Be You," was published earlier September and In 2013 she's hoping to write her third book.

            "The stares are what I'm really dealing with in public right now," she told Dr. Drew Pinsky in an interview on CNN's Headline News. But I think I'm getting to the point where… instead of sitting by and watching people judge me, I'm starting to want to go up to these people and introduce myself or give them my card and say, 'Hi, I'm Lizzie. Maybe you should stop staring and start learning'."

            Velasquez was born in San Antonio, Texas; she was four weeks premature and weighed just 2 pounds, 10 ounces. "They told us they had no idea how she could have survived," her mother, Rita, 45, told the Daily Mail. "We had to buy doll's clothes from the toy store because baby clothes were too big." Doctors warned Rita and her husband, Lupe, that their oldest child would never be able to walk or talk, let alone live a normal life. (Her two younger siblings were not affected by the syndrome.)

            Instead, she has thrived. Her internal organs, brain, and bones developed normally, though her body is tiny. Since she has no fatty tissue in which to store nutrients, she has to eat every 15 to 20 minutes to have enough energy to get through the day. One brown eye started clouding over when she was 4 years old, and now she's blind in that eye and has only limited sight in the other.

 

 And they call him a genius?

 A GUINEAN SOLVES MATH PROBLEMS REMAINED UNSOLVED  270 YEARS!

           Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou is perhaps becoming the 1st African mathematician of the modern era to have developed a theorem. The young researcher Guinea, 35, journalist converted into mathematical researcher was able to find the solution to the Goldbach conjectur.

           This mathematical problem has been laid there over 270 years by the Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach, guardian of Tsar Peter II and official in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1742, he sent a letter to his contemporary Leonhard Euler in which he made out that "every even number greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes."

           For illustration, we see that 6=3 +3, 8=3 +5, 3 +7=10 or 5 +5, 30=11 +19=13 +17, 100=17 83 ... Is it true any even number? This is the glue ... Sambegou Ibrahima Diallo told the local press in his country.

           It took 14 years of work at the Guinean young mathematician before arriving at the solution. That the projects in the big leagues. He was with U.S. researchers waivers best-known and supported.

           Ibrahima Diallo Sambegou knock all doors to validate his work. Faced with a lack of support in his country, he decided to go to Dakar, Senegal to validate the results of his research at the Institute of Mathematics.

           He hopes to find support to be the first African contemporary to have developed a theorem.

Sam Berns philosophy for a happy life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36m1o-tM05g

Richie Parker works for Hendrick Motor Sports...

www.youtube.com/embed/qiLDMBDPCEY?rel=0

NEVER SAY CAN'T!

Jennifer Bricker a gymnast born with no legs, learns she is the biological sister of Dominique Moceanu Olympic Gold Medalist.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153154817558902&set=vb.672878901&type=2&theater

Going Beyond Limitation 

By Eckhart Tolle

           In each person’s life there comes a time when he or she pursues growth and expansion on the level of form. This is when you strive to overcome limitation such as physical weakness or financial scarcity, when you acquire new skills and knowledge, or through creative action bring something new into this world that is life-enhancing for yourself as well as others. This may be a piece of music or a work of art, a book, a service you provide, a function you perform, a business or organization that you set up or make a vital contribution to.

           When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. And, of course, you cannot be present unless you become friendly with the present moment. That is the basis for effective action, uncontaminated by negativity.

           Form means limitation. We are here not only to experience limitation, but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some limitations can be overcome on an external level. There may be other limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally. Everyone will encounter them sooner or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is. That is what they are here to teach. The surrendered state of consciousness opens up the vertical dimension in your life, the dimension of depth. Something will then come forth from that dimension into this world, something of infinite value that otherwise would have remained unmanifested. Some people who surrendered to severe limitation become healers or spiritual teachers. Others work selflessly to lessen human suffering or bring some creative gift into this world.

           In the late seventies, I would have lunch every day with one or two friends in the cafeteria of the graduate center at Cambridge University, where I was studying. A man in a wheelchair would sometimes sit at a nearby table, usually accompanied by three or four people. One day, when he was sitting at a table directly opposite me, I could not help but look at him more closely, and I was shocked by what I saw. He seemed almost totally paralyzed. His body was emaciated, his head permanently slumped forward. One of the people accompanying him was carefully putting food in his mouth, a great deal of which would fall out again and be caught on a small plate another man was holding under his chin. Occasionally the wheelchair-bound man would produce unintelligible croaking sounds, and someone would hold an ear close to his mouth and then amazingly would interpret what he was trying to say.

           Later I asked my friend whether he knew who he was. “Of course,” he said, “he is a professor of mathematics, and the people with him are his graduate students. He has motor neuron disease that progressively paralyzes every part of the body. He has been given five years at the most. It must be the most dreadful fate that can befall a human being.”

            A few weeks later, as I was leaving the building, he was coming in, and when I held the door open for his electric wheelchair to come through, our eyes met. With surprise I saw that his eyes were clear. There was no trace in them of unhappiness. I knew immediately he had relinquished resistance; he was living in surrender.

           A number of years later when buying a newspaper at a kiosk, I was amazed to see him on the front page of a popular international news magazine. Not only was he still alive, but he had by then become the world’s most famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. There was a beautiful line in the article that confirmed what I had sensed when I had looked into his eyes many years earlier. Commenting upon his life, he said (now with the help of the voice synthesizer), “Who could have wished for more?”

http://communicate.eckharttolle.com/news/2014/11/10/going-beyond-limitation/

         And this is the story of my amazing Facecook friend, Turner Ray Roberts IV.  

https://www.facebook.com/notes/love-wanted-for-disabled-men-and-women/do-you-believe-in-miracles/259453154145524

I know in my heart that the next story he tells will be one of his rising up from a wheeled chair and walking away, and I can't wait to add that line for he is a real winner. 

Amazing KRYSTAL from SA Texas is the One-Armed Weightlifter, she continues to lift after amputation. Dead lifting 210 - 215 pounds with one hand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWUtvzaBeg

Justin Tompkins

Dwarf Basketball player:

Proving Size Doesn't Matter On The Court

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXz2KvpHr9k

GO GIRL!

  Rashema Melson, Homeless, Valedictorian, 

       Earns Scholarship to Georgetown

         
          A D.C. high school student who spent the past two years living in a homeless shelter has graduated high school as a valedictorian and will head to Georgetown University with a full scholarship.
          Rashema Melson, 18, gave the valedictory speech at Anacostia High School's commencement ceremony, telling her fellow classmates to never give up -- because she didn't
          "Never be afraid to go after your dreams," she told her classmates. "Regardless of the negative forecast that has been predicted upon us, beat the odds and let the sun shine."
          Her message is also her approach toward life.
          "Life is not fair. You must keep striving for success," Rashema said.
          Rashema will head off to Georgetown University on a full college scholarship this summer, and hopes to attend medical school after that. But first, she'll get to revel in her accomplishments.
          "You have options and you decide which one you want to take, and I took education because it takes you for the long run," she said. "It's not just a temporary thing or won't just last for five years. Education will take me far."
          Rashema's father was killed before her first birthday, and she has moved from home to home, from Maryland to Ohio to Florida to Tennessee. She spent her junior and senior years of high school at the D.C. General homeless shelter, where she lives with her mother and three of her six siblings.
          She said she doesn't consider the shelter to be a home.
          "There's no furniture... There's no refrigerator," she said. "It's just a place to be content with until you get to where you want to be."
Rashema said she knows that where she lives doesn't have a good reputation, but she used that as a catalyst to propel herself forward.
          Her principal at Anacostia High School, Ivan Roberts, had high praise for her. "Her story and her resilience, just her character and personality traits will impact the lives of a lot of people because she’s always optimistic," Roberts said.
          After Rashema's education is complete, she plans to become a forensic pathologist. She knows the road ahead will be long, but isn't afraid of the hard work ahead.
          "I [won't] become a certified forensic pathologist until I'm about 31, because I have to do a residency after med school," Rashema said. "So it's a long time to me because I'm young, but I see it, and when I get there, it's going to be the best feeling ever."
          Rashema also ran track and cross-country, and said her favorite music artists are Beyonce and Nikki Minaj. She describes herself as outgoing and talkative.
          "I like to have fun, but I like to get my work done," she said. "...I've always tried to get the job done. If I say I'm going to do it, [then] it's my task."
          She advises others to follow their dreams, and work hard to get what they want.
          "Don't do the easy route and just settle for what you have," Rashema said. "Never settle for less.”
          See her speech http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Homeless-Valedictorian-Earns-Scholarship-to-Georgetown-262457141.html

Krista Henderson racing in the Coburg Triathlon.

http://www.borntoreignathletics.com/

You go girl! 

8 year old Bailey Matthews born with Cerebral palsy finishes Triathlon.

Thomas Morrissey was born with one arm and at 3 years old plays golf with pros.

2015-04-03 The entire Progeria family mourns together with many as we say goodbye to Hayley Okines, our smart, beautiful and spirited English Rose, who passed away at age 17.

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