How to live your life

I subscribe to Salve Duplito's blog over at Inquirer.net Blogs for the personal finance articles.

Today, I got a special treat because today's blog post was definitely more than personal finance, it was about living.

Prof. Randy Pausch passed away last year of pancreatic cancer but not before speaking to about an audience of 400 at Carnegie Mellon University for the "Last Lecture" series. While watching the video I am always reminded that the speaker was going to die and that made it all the more powerful, I almost shed a tear too when he mentioned for whom his lecture was really for at the end.

Sad and inspiring at the same time.

Impossible is Nothing

A friend of mine who is currently a runner and an aspiring tri-athlete posted a series of inspiring Youtube videos on his Facebook profile.

A couple of them were from Adidas' "Impossible is Nothing" campaign which reminded me of one of my favorite quotes of all time which also came from that ad campaign.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Impossible is potential.

Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing.

I Dare You To Move

Once in a while, something stupid happens to everyone but what if that something stupid is so big, so life changing that it totally breaks you, saps you of all your confidence and renders you incapacitated.

If something like that were ever to happen to you, wouldn't you like someone to "Dare You To Move" ?

It's never easy isn't it ? You know you have to get up and continue but there's this huge weight on your shoulders that always reminds you of what happened. All we know is that we have to move forward "like today never happened" but nobody really knows how. I think it's because everybody is different. People find themselves in the most unexpected places.

So I really liked this song by Switchfoot. My favorite lines ....

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

Yes, salvation is here !

Lots of videos from Youtube to choose from but not all of them have the line "salvation is here". There's just something oddly comforting about that line in the song so I chose a video with that line in it. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mN6mfI3hTE


Speaking of "lifting yourself up off the floor", I better start posting more blog entries soon or I'll fall off again :-)

a quote from the Early Edition episode Hoops

" Everybody has a dream, it comes with being alive, it doesn't matter who you are or what you do or where you grew up ... if you're breathing you got one ... but the dreams that you dream when you're young, those are the ones that count, the ones that you never give up .... when every second lasts a lifetime ... and when you know beyond a doubt that you're different ... and that you're gonna live forever "



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