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To: shades who wrote (47405)	1/19/2006 1:30:34 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

**OT*** What are you doing to help the people that had all your suffering? Simply telling my story. You aren't listening because you are more interested in dragging me down to your level, but many others are. Success in life can be taught. The largest obstacles that anyone faces are psychological. Hearing how someone else over came similar obstacles gives the person facing the same a road map, a starting point. The worst thing you can do is promote this myth that it isn't possible for people to overcome the circumstances they were dealt, that the game is rigged against them. Life is inherently unfair, but so what? Apparent disadvantages can be turned into strengths. The limitations people put on themselves can be far more limiting than the ones that the circumstances of their birth places on them. A successful life is one in which you are able to continuously expand your limitations. A personal example of how someone else's experience can change the way someone feels about their own follows: Back when I first tried running, back in 1987, I quit several times because it seemed ridiculously difficult. Before giving up completely, I asked a good friend, who was a very accomplished runner, how it was when she first started. I imagined that she was a natural at it because she ran so effortlessly. She told me she was pathetic at first, that she had difficulty running around the block and she hated running. But being one of those persistent types, she wasn't ready to accept failure. She told herself that if she gave it a year and still hated it, she would quit without any remorse. Of course, she felt pretty good after about two months of running so she continues to run to this day and she loves it. I was so glad I asked her because what she said had a big effect on my continuing to run. I wound up liking it so much that I found myself training for and running several marathons years later, one at 3:56 at age 39. Not too shabby for someone who at one time was convinced that she couldn't run a mile. What one man can do, another can do.