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Day 990: Sometimes you have to step back and get some perspective

Sometimes you have to step back and get some perspective – that’s what I learned today.

It’s 3 : 47 PM on day 990 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Deuteronomy 7, publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes and a boiled egg for breakfast, email, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – still no luck but I’m not quitting I know there are people out there who care that kids all over the world are being sold like they’re merchandise I just haven’t found those people yet – spend time outside – I never get tired of being in nature the blue sky, the trees everything is so beautiful it’s a pity only a few people notice it – feed myself a peanut butter sandwich and a apple for lunch and practice typing with both hands.

Today I was feeling down and dejected nothing I did seemed to be working so I stopped what I was doing and spent some time outside it seems like such a random thing to do but sometimes you have to step back and get some perspective. When times are tough do you step back from the situation and look at it from an objective point of view?

Day 989: Never be ashamed of the things you do to make a difference

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Never be ashamed of the things you do to make a difference – that’s what I learned yesterday 🙂

It’s 4 : 10 PM on day 989 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Deuteronomy 6, publish my Disability of the Day feature, put on a jacket, stretch my hamstrings, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, email, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – still no luck – and practice typing with both hands.

Yesterday during a phone call my mom found out that I in not so many words asked a relative of ours to make a donation to my anti-slavery campaign suffice to say she was embarrassed after the call ended she came to me and said more like a question than a statement you sent them an email too to which I answered yes I did none of the money goes to me it’s not like I’m using the money to buy drugs usually if my parents asked me if I asked someone to donate to one of my campaigns I would lie and say something like they stumbled across the link to my page purely because I didn’t want to get into it with them at that precise moment but yesterday I realized that I should never be ashamed of the things I do to make a difference. Are you sometimes shamed for doing what you need to do to make a difference?

Day 988: The show must go on

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The show must go on – that’s what I keep learning 🙂

It’s 3 : 22 PM on day 988 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, read Deuteronomy 5, publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings, take off my hoodie and t–shirt and put a clean t-shirt on with our housekeeper’s help – even with help it took me 1 1/2 hours to do if I never say the words can you help me again it will be too soon people often say to me everybody needs help sometimes which irritates me because I need more help in a day than most people need in a lifetime – practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – no luck today – and practice typing with both hands.

Today has not been the best of days for me my left hip (or at least what feels like my left hip) has been aching but you have to wake up every day, put a smile on your dial and try to help as many people as possible because there are lots of people who would have given an arm and a leg to be alive today to make a difference. Do you get up, put a smile on your dial and try to help as a many people as possible regardless of how you’re feeling?

Day 987: Pushing yourself to the point of discomfort

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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – M. Scott Peck

It’s 3 : 41 PM on day 987 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, pray, read Deuteronomy 4, publish my Disability of the Day feature, practice typing with both hands and email, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – no luck today but yesterday someone who wishes to remain anonymous made a $50 donation now I just need to raise $813 more to reach my goal 🙂

Today I spent some time emailing people I knew asking them to take a look at my campaign which made me really uncomfortable but the way I look at it there’s no better reason to put yourself in an uncomfortable situation than to help someone else. Do you push yourself to the point of discomfort in the hopes of achieving greatness?

Day 986: Life comes full circle

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Life comes full circle. You take care of your kids until they have to take care of you. – Linda Poindexter

It’s 5 : 01 PM on day 986 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, go to church, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, read Deuteronomy 3, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature and practice typing with both hands

Today spending time with my grandma I couldn’t help but feel a little sad here was this woman who a few years ago could climb up a flight of stairs without breaking a sweat now barely able to walk I try to be in the moment and enjoy the time I have with her now but it’s really hard because I still remember the grandma who made me lemonade with ginger when I had a stomach ache and helped me with my hamstring stretches when my mom wasn’t around. Has your life come full circle?

Day 985: I Hope You Dance

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent – Victor Hugo

It’s 4: 56 PM on day 985 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, hang out with my gran watching cartoons, feed myself an egg sandwich for breakfast, pray, read Deuteronomy 2, publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – still no luck – hang out with my family, feed myself brown rice and curry for lunch and practice typing with both hands.

A couple of months ago I heard I Hope You Dance by Ronan Keating if there were ever an instruction manual on how to live life in song form this song would be it. Listen to I Hope You Dance by Ronan Keating below:

Day 984: Living fully and making the most of our time on Earth

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Most of us are going through the motions and wasting time like we have an unlimited amount of time – that’s what I realized today 🙂

It’s 5 : 53 PM on day 984 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Deuteronomy 1, publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings, change my jacket and t-shirt, practice typing with both hands, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – no donations were made today but I keep trying because I truly believe that EVERYBODY deserves to be free to change the world in their own way – feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, make sandwiches as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run with our housekeeper’s help, feed myself rice and curry for lunch, listen to music – I love If You Could See Me Now by The Script every time I hear it I think of Virginia it would not be exaggerating to say Virginia was a second mother to my siblings and I she fed us, she clothed us and sang to us we were so sad when she died but now I realize people never truly die they live in our memories I think she would be happy that I make sandwiches for the kids in our housekeeper’s neighborhood in her memory 🙂 – and go to physiotherapy – I’ve been going to the same physiotherapist for almost 10 years they’ve become our family people have had kids and grand kids since I’ve known them it’s pretty awesome to see people growing and changing.

Today I realized most of us are going through the motions and wasting time like we have an unlimited amount of time when I hear people discuss Justin Bieber’s new hairstyle or who married whom in Hollywood I just want to scream because I know that when all is said and done what people will remember about us is how many people we helped and how much joy we brought to people. Are you going through the motions and wasting time like you have an unlimited amount of time?

Day 983: Perseverance

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Perseverance in the most underrated quality any person can have – that’s what I keep learning 🙂

It’s 5 : 13 PM on day 983 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Numbers 36, stretch my hamstrings, take off a dirty jacket and put on a clean one , practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – nobody from Twitter or Facebook donated so I asked my mom to make a donation she did and now I’m $25 closer to my goal my motto in life is if what you’re doing isn’t working do something different 🙂 – feed myself a sandwich for lunch, continue reading Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela and practice typing with both hands.

This morning it took me three attempts to get the zipper of my jacket on every time I would snap the zipper in place and try to pull it up it would snap out of place again but every time it did I tried again and again and again until the third time when I snapped it in place and asked our housekeeper to help me pull it up so it wouldn’t snap out of place again when I do something I sort of make a decision that I’m going to do it until I get it done that’s where I think most people go wrong if they don’t reach their goal within a month or a year or two years they quit without realizing quitting is a sure way to guarantee failure. What you lack in everything else do you make up for in perseverance?

Day 982: The inspiring story of Shane Burcaw

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

It’s 4 : 01 PM on day 982 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, stretch my hamstrings, take off and put on a jacket and t-shirt, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, pray, read Numbers 35, publish my Disability of the Day feature, practice typing with both hands, tweet and Facebook about my campaign and feed myself rice and curry for lunch.

Last night I came across the inspiring story of Shane Burcaw – a twenty-year-old who has a progressive condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy – what inspires me most about Shane is that he knows how his story is going to end and still chooses to live, love and laugh Watch My Last Days: Meet Shane Burcaw it’s guaranteed to change the way you live your life:

Day 981: Help me end slavery

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“The slave-holder’s rule contradicts this fundamental truth of God’s word, that ‘God has made of one blood all the nations of men,’ and if of one blood, they are of equal blood.” – Jonathan Blanchard

It’s 3 : 36 PM on day 981 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, watch the news, pray, read Numbers 34, publish my Disability of the Day feature, tweet and Facebook about my campaign – I hate when I tell people about my campaign and they respond with thank you for sharing you sort of think you’re welcome now aren’t you going to do anything about this travesty most people don’t it’s like they’re looking to everybody but themselves to fix the problems of the world it frustrates me because I know that a group of like-minded people can change the world – stretch my hamstrings, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, watch 21st Century Sex Slaves Documentary (Human Trafficking) – watch it at the bottom of this post – and practice typing with both hands.

As you may know about a month ago I started my anti-slavery campaign today I’m going to show you through a documentary why I’m so passionate about this particular issue at this particular time. Watch the documentary and make a donation to help me help women and children trapped in slavery: