Kurt Fearnley – Be Involved

Be Involved Born without the lower portion of his spine, in the small western nsw town of Carcoar. Kurt Fearnley took up wheelchair racing when he was 14. From pushing his everyday wheelchair as fast as he could down the grass track at school athletics carnivals, to pushing his chair the last five kilometres on [...]

Helen Keller’s Amazing Journey

Success Through Faith and Not By Sight Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to graduate from college. A woman from the small farm town of Tuscumbia, Alabama who taught the world to respect people who are blind [...]

Handicapped People Can Become Successful Too…

Success Knows No Boundaries …Yvonne Singer What’s wrong with us? Handicapped people are constantly being stared at, treated differently or being ridiculed by others. This may be the case, but for Yvonne-Singer, an adjunct professor at Middlesex County College who was born with cerebral palsy, she was able to put all that behind her and [...]

Nick Vucijic – Life Without Limbs

The Arms of Hope, Legs of Inspiration and Touch of Motivation. Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. Now put [...]

Can We Control Motivation?

Do you feel your motivation has diminished recently? Or do you feel at the moment that it’s gone completely? Do you wonder how you’ll ever get it back?  It often happens that many people find their motivation decreasing or disappearing altogether. When this happens you tend to feel stuck and you’re not really moving forward. [...]

Living With Spina Bifida – Robert Hensel

What’s Your Excuse – Physical…or Just Mental Disadvantage? [no pun intended] Robert Michael HenselBorn: May 8th 1969 Place: Rota, Spain Robert was born with a birth defect known as spina bifida. A disability that has not stopped him from achieving success in his life. Robert serves as an Advocate for the disabled, an on going [...]

Franklin Roosevelt [32nd US President]

Franklin Roosevelt- 32nd President of the United States “I call for effort, courage, sacrifice,devotion.Granting the love of freedom,all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today” Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the [...]