Remember who you are...

Remember who you are. You are more than
just the circumstances that you deal with everyday.
- Kelly Carroll, Canyon News 9/28/08

Remember you are more than just the circumstances you deal with everyday.

How true. How true.

Leave it to the Californians to remind us how our individual humanity extends far beyond the confines of our job, title, status or daily circumstances. In this case, it's Kelly Carroll writing for L.A.'s Canyon News.

We are more than the circumstances we deal with everyday...

Take for example Terence Gerchberg and Sara Leshner. The New York couple chucked their daily circumstances of working real estate and Wall Street respectively to compete in this season's Amazing Race contest on CBS. Each had to look beyond their current circumstance to do something new and amazing with their lives.

Will they win the $1 million grand prize for zipping the fastest across five continents and 30,000 or so miles? We'll find out in a couple of months. In the meantime, it's enough to know that at some point, they realized they were indeed much more than their daily circumstances would allow and broke through to a new reality.

We can do the same because...

We are more than the circumstances we deal with everyday...

This week, the story of one amazing person hits the screens in Flash of Genius. The story chronicles the life of Robert Kearns and his legal battle with automotive giant Ford Motor Co. over rights to his invention -- the intermittent windshield wiper.

Kearns realized early on that he was more than his circumstance the minute he got popped in the eye with a champagne cork on his wedding night. In one flash of fizz, Kearns began to reach beyond his circumstance to create something new. And it led to an amazing life of his own that continues to impact millions of people around the world today.

We can do the same because...

We are more than the circumstances we deal with everyday...

Where ever you are sitting right now,

whatever you are doing at this hour,

however you may be feeling at this moment,

take heart.

As Kelly Carroll tells us, "there is always another dream calling you to what will happen next."

Find the dream that works for you because...

You are more than the circumstances you are dealing with today.

Remember that.


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