What are you going to do today?

This week I went on a work conference, how boring you may say? the first couple of hours where great and then the after lunch "the feeling" set in and didn't feel like thinking too much... There was like zero signal in this place so i decided to go to the reception and ask if by any slim chance they had a free wifi zone I could use. When I walked in I saw this guy in a wheel chair... I really thought that he was part of the staff until he came into the room we where having our thing and started speaking about his life story, he was our motivational speaker ... Cy Edmandson. 

In 1990, during a school leadership course, Cy fell ill with an unknown virus which attacked his spinal cord. After 3 months in a coma, Cy regained consciousness but had to learn to deal with the heavy burden of being disabled for the rest of his life. He had to re-learn to speak and had to come to terms that he will never walk again. During his stay in hospital, Cy developed a close relationship with his nurse, Wendy Lurie, and married her in 1994. They were informed that producing children would be a near miracle and probably not possible. Cy and Wendy’s son Joshua was born in April 1995. 

Why was this so important to me that I felt I needed to share it? i have heard many speakers and this guy had something really profound... of all the guys i have heard, this one couldn't walk! even in his wheel chair bound state he climbed 

sentinel peak. this was truly a serious achievement for a man that cant use his legs!  This guy really made a profound point that you can really do what ever you want to do once you have committed to the task. now that sounds really like if you   "believe you want to you can achieve it by thinking it". but i think the point was that there are people all over this world that are doing amazing things without the use of their limbs, and all we do all day is sit around and complain. so the question should really be... what are you going to do today? complain about your circumstances or do something about the situation you are in. lets try and be more aware of those around us doing extraordinary things around us and lets make the most of every day, without complaining... and remember that you can use part of your body that some people cant... so stop complaining and be thankful.