Sextuplets, Cardiac Arrest...and a Marathon?!

Here's a story to inspire you to give up your excuses and get off the couch... Jenny Masche is a beautiful young woman who a year ago gave birth to sextuplets, suffered cardiac arrest during delivery and nearly died. This year Jenny ran a marathon and completed it. Wow! Talk about bouncing back from being knocked down. Click the link to read the full story. Jenny Masche is a true inspiration!

Get Inspired to Lose by Reading About Others Who Have

I love to see before and after photos of people who have lost weight and read the stories of how they did it. Its very motivational. At
The Weigh We Were you can find loads of motivational stories with before and after pics. You will also find links to over 1000 weight loss blogs and you can add yours to the list. There are video stories too and a message board. Every person has a different story, a different eating plan, a different exercise plan proving that there is no perfect way for all of us. We each have to find our best individual weight loss plan. The pic here is of Maggie Sorrells who lost 300 lbs. She says... "Perseverance is most important. If you mess up, especially in the beginning you're going to slip. Don't say, "I'll start over Monday." Start over right now. The worst enemy is if you give up. What got me to the end, to losing 300 pounds, was persevering. On days I wanted to eat the whole bowl of something -- I had to talk myself through it. The truth was, I really wasn't hungry."

Are You a Tigger or an Eyeore?

Randy Pausch a 47 year old husband, father of three and professor at Carnegie Mellon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006. By August 2007 he was told that he had 6 months to live. That would have been up in February, Randy is still living and enjoying every last minute with his wife and 3 young children. Randy will die this year, but his legacy will live on. The video below titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood dreams" is known as "The Last Lecture" and is probably the most inspiring thing you will ever listen to. Randy is truly a hero.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeve

The Watchers Become the Watched

Kevin Connelly is another inspiring hero. Also born with no legs, he has turned what would drag others down into art. He takes photos of the people who stare at him and has created a gallery of photos that he calls "The Rolling Exhibition". Click Kevin's photo to read his amazing story on People of the Web.

No Arms, No Legs...No Limits!

Nick Vujicic is amazing! I saw him on 20/20 last night and was deeply inspired. I love to be reminded to shut up and stop whining about the little pressures of everyday life. People like Nick help me keep things in perspective. I would definitely consider him to be a hero. The following is a few paragraphs by Nick telling of his beginnings in this world.

"My name is Nick Vujicic and I give God the Glory for how He has used my testimony to touch thousands of hearts around the world! I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth "defect". As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles. "Consider it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds." JAMES 1:2-4
.....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy? As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne (Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it. The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.
The whole church mourned over my birth and my parents were absolutely devastated. Everyone asked, "if God is a God of Love, then why would God let something this bad happen to not just anyone, but dedicated Christians?" My Dad thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests proved that I was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.
Understandably, my parents had strong concern and evident fears of what kind of life I'd be able to lead. God provided them strength, wisdom and courage through those early years and soon after that I was old enough to go to school.
The law in Australia didn't allow me to be integrated into a main-stream school because of my physical disability. God did miracles and gave my Mom the strength to fight for the law to be changed. I was one of the first disabled students to be integrated into a main-stream school."

Be sure to visit Nick's site www.LifeWithoutLimbs.org and continue to be inspired.

Never Let Your Limitations Limit You

This kid is a great inspiration and lesson in perserverance.

Inspiration to Blog

Supermomof7....Mom to 7 kids, keeper of 8 pets, owner of 15 blogs and 7 Squidoo lenses...never a dull moment! While researching the net on how to earn money I came across this powerhouse of blogging. I orginally came across her blog getting-out-of-debt which inspired me to start my own blog. It has been a long dreary road through a dark forest trying to learn how to do all this stuff but finally... I have a look I like, I have a 3 column template which took forever to find, and I have my niche. My niche is kind of like the premise for Seinfeld...it's about nothing! :) A blog about nothing...whatever I find on the net that makes me laugh, cry, be inspired or adds ease to my life I will post here. I get lost on the net, starting with a specific google request and then something catches my eye and so it goes until I end up far from where I started but have found all kinds of net treasures. So thanks Supermomof7 for daring to make a living from the net and inspiring me to venture out on my own quest for blogging joy.