Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Choice is Yours
You can focus on what you do have or complain about what you don’t have. I want to emphasize, however, that what we focus on plays a major role in what we are able to accomplish in life. By now surely everyone knows that Heather Whitestone, the 1995 Miss America, is and has been profoundly deaf since her 18th month of life. However, Heather always focused on what she did have, not on what she did not have. She focused on her ability, not her disability. She is fortunate that she has parents who fervently believe in her and have supported, loved, encouraged, and worked with her in everything she has done.
This beautiful young woman has a keen mind. She also has tremendous spirit and a solid faith, and she has been a persistent hard worker all of her life. She is a skilled lip-reader, and over the years, many professors and others have helped her. Some of them have even taken the time to make copies of their notes for her.
Major point: Countless other people have also had problems, but they focused on the problems instead of the solutions to the problems. Please understand I am making an observation and not a criticism. No one knows how other people feel and some problems are beyond human solution.
However, people with a cooperative, loving, enthusiastic, gentle, positive attitude will attract people by the score who not only are willing to help them, but also are anxious to do so. The attitude about your condition, on many occasions, is even more significant than the condition itself. kAkA.hUnTeR
Not all who wander are lost.
spoke at : 3/04/2009 08:26:00 PM