Can't do it?

What skills you have doesn't matter as much...
As how serious you are about using those skills.
You say you don't seem to have the abilities your life calls for.
Maybe not. But ....
Maybe you could more aggressive with the skills you do have. Right now.

A baby was born in 1880. Very few that knew her as she was growing up...
would have ever believed she would meet...
every US president in her lifetime.
Mark Twain ( yes, the author)
Alexander Graham Bell (the telephone guy)
Charlie Chaplin (google his massive success)

This baby from Alabama would never have been expected to be...
the author of 11 books.

She must have been very gifted.
Well, yes, and no.

But this little girl had determination.
For the path her life took, few others have gone down.
She was gifted.
But this Presidential invitee, author and world famous figure didn't have even a couple of things most take for granted.
She never saw the sunset in her backyard.
Never heard... even her own voice.
When this girl, named Helen Keller, was very young, she got very ill, and the results of the illness and maybe even the treatment left her
both blind and deaf.
Blind.
Deaf.
and it took her 7 years
and a special teacher
for her to realize that
while her ability to sense the world was limited to touch and smell...
her mind worked fine.
her voice worked fine.
and with help and
determination
that was enough
for the tasks that she felt had been put in front of her.
She must have been correct.
They don't put just anybody on the back of...
the state quarter of Alabama.


when helen broke through and began to communicate with her teacher,
she was 7 years old.

there can only be one person that was the first blind and deaf person
to graduate from any college.

But you know, we've all had breakthroughs of our own.
Helen's breakthroughs are really just reminders that we can have our own kind of success

Helen didn't own all the world's determination. I have some. You have some, maybe a lot. Maybe a Helen Keller sized bunch of passion for something.

We have all had Helen Keller moments that we can look back to when things aren't easy

Difficult tasks and failure today become ...
well, they become our past. They don't define us. Our past says where we've been, not where we are going.
Really all Helen had was a sense for where her life had to go that one day with her teacher.
That is really all you have, too.
Today.
and with your own kind of determination,
who knows...