WEEKLY KNOCKOUT! INSPIRATION - SHEREE CLAMPIT

"...don’t complain about what you don’t have 

when others are worse off than you." 

- Sheree Clampit

Photo Credit: Chris Scott Herald Sun via www.mylegisnotbroken.com

Sometimes in surfing the web you come across stories about others that cannot but move and inspire you to achieve and do more with your life; with what you got. This week's "KnockOut!" Inspiration comes from a young Australian woman, Sheree Clampit, who was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), a rare disorder that effects the joints of the body, curving limbs, fixing them, preventing them from having full range, because muscles, and or ligaments in those areas may be weakened, short or missing altogether. In severe cases the individual may be bound to a wheel chair, for others surgeries, often multiple will be necessary to correct club feet, reposition twisted hands, etc. Each case is unique. Sheree has had to undergo 22.

Her parents never gave up hope although doctors may have in the beginning and by the time she was of school age she was able to walk. Sheree is undaunted by AMC. She is a young woman on the move. A finalist for The Pride of Australia Courage Medal Sheree aspires to having a career in counseling and welfare.

At the present time as with many diseases it is not known what the exact cause in fetal development is that leads to Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita.

WEEKLY KNOCKOUT! INSPIRATION - HELEN KELLER

Whether it is your very first time running or your 10th marathon, in addition to good health and strength a little inspiration can go a long way!

This weeks inspiration comes from Helen Keller.

Hellen Keller and Her Teacher, 21 year-old Ann Sullivan 1988

"We can do anything we want to do

                if we stick to it long enough."

Helen and her teacher Ann never gave up. They worked tirelessly. They focused on the journey that lay ahead of them not in its length. The stayed on course, jumping all hurdles that lay in their way. Frustrations, physical ailments, heartbreaks.

Helen Keller accomplished a lot in her life despite her inability to see, hear and have acquired as she says in this clip, "Normal Speech." She was a writer, a lecturer, a suffragist, a volunteer. She was an advocate for the blind, dedicating more than 40 years of her life to the efforts of the American Foundation for the Blind. Her life, an inspiration! 

Short run? Long run? Stick to it!