I was watching an XGames replay today and they introduced a pretty interesting event this year. It was a motocross race in which all the competitors were either paraplegics or amputees. Now if you don’t know much about motocross, know this, it’s a very physically demanding sport. To race a motorcycle without the complete function of your legs and in some cases NO function in the legs is absolutely amazing. Or is it?
We humans are capable of some pretty amazing stuff. The history books are full of stories of incredible human achievement. The one thing that most of these feats have in common is that before they were completed, somebody said it couldn’t be done. And the person who achieved greatness in his chosen field ignored the naysayers and went ahead and achieved anyway.
Racing a motorcycle while handicapped is just the most recent example of someone who was told they couldn’t do something but did it anyway. If you have somebody in your life who says it can’t be done, ignore them or remove them from your life. Chances are they are failures themselves and they will try and bring everybody around them down to their level.
Sometimes that negative person is in the mirror. Ignore your inner voice that says “I can’t” cuz it’s wrong, you can! How does that old saying go, the person who says he can’t and the person who says he can are usually both right.
Yours in Health,
Dennis
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