Thursday, September 13, 2007

Is your brain in your way?

"I can't. It's too hard. I'll never make it." Get out of your own way!

If you googled Alline Banks Sprouse: not only would you find out that she was one of the best basketball players of her time, or the Most Valuable Player 9 times or an All American 11 times or in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame or that she played on 7 national championship teams, you would find out this.

Alline Banks Sprouse, while playing for the Atlanta Blues, did something remarkable. “I had taken a knee in the shoulder during our game in Pittsburgh and the next night we caught a plane to New York to play. I’d never shot with my left hand before. It was my idea to play, I always played. He (the coach) never asked me if I wanted to play or not play – he knew I was going to play, regardless,” said Sprouse. That night with her right arm taped to her body, Alline scored 56 points in the game. Did you hear that. They had to tape her right arm to her body and she had to shoot lefty. She never shot lefty before in her life.

Sometimes we are just a mood change away from success. When something seems impossible to do, do you say? "It's possible but too difficult," or do you say, "It's difficult but it's possible." There are no limitations in your life. The limitations are only falsy set in your brain. Stop thinking and take action.

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~Charle R. Swindoll

Quote of the month: "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

1 comment:

Lisa Sargese said...

With persistence and vision all things are possible!