My advice?
Ignore your limitations.
90% of the time it is simply a case of working out a way to get around them.
100% of the time you are better for the journey towards a goal regardless of whether you got the end result you were after or not.
Ignore Your Limitations
Limitations are just guideposts.
They may signal different routes
or different ways to reach a destination.
But they won't prevent us from getting there,
unless we empower them to do so.
Ignore them,
focus on the journey.
One of my biggest pet hates in my circle of friends, is seeing people with the potential for greatness, hold themselves back from even trying something out. I can never understand what they are so afraid of? The best thing about stepping up to a challenge and giving it a whirl, is that if things do not go according to plan, you have a great group of people behind you - lifting you up, encouraging you, supporting you, helping you to acheive your goal. It is better to have tried and failed, than to not have tried at all.
When a friend of mine came to me and asked me if I would take on running a Splash for Cash swimathon for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, I balked. I had the passion to do it for sure, but I knew that my biggest limitations - procrastinating and leaving things to the last minute - could potentially lead to failure which was not an option when volunteering for my favourity charity. But I stepped up anyway. I ignored my limitations and worked my way around them, putting measures in place to make sure we were successful.
Looking back now, I am so grateful that I took that leap of faith, as it has taken me on a completely unexpected journey. That Splash for Cash swimathon - at Macquarie University in 2009 - saw 60 swimmers raise $12,000. With the support of an amazing network of Rotaractors, I am now busily working on taking our event onto the national stage, with Splash for Cash swimathons in the work in various locations around Australia and the aim of raising over $100,000 in 2012. Would any of this be happening if I had let my limitations dictate my life back in 2009? Not a chance.
So what are you waiting for? Take a risk! Take a leap of faith! Chase a dream.
Where there is a will, there is a way! So go for it!
For more information about the 2012 Splash for Cash,
email me at krissie.mchenry@gmail.com
1 comment:
WOW you must be an amazing young lady.
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