Project Run-away.

zTHOT for the day:  If you don’t push past your limits you will never know what you can do.

Thousands of designers from across the nation try out to compete on Project Runway.  In the end, the show begins with the 16 designers deemed to be the best.  It is almost like winning the Lotto of clothing design. 

Now, let’s take a look at Maya, the girl who quit mid-season because:  “I know my limits.”

Or as one twenty-something said to me, “She respected her limits.”

What?!  Now that is a new take on being a quitter if there ever was one!  Let’s pursue that line of thought. 

If any of the following people “respected their limits” what would have happened:

Mattie Stepanek:   Born with a rare disorder now known as Dysautonomic Mitcochondrial Myopathy.  His mother was advised to put her child in an institution and “let nature take its course.”  Instead he became a young man who transformed his hardships into a message of hope and peace that touched millions.

 

 

Joe Biden:  As a child, Biden stuttered and was teased by his classmates. He practiced reading aloud in front of a mirror and worked hard to overcome it.  Now Biden is known as the Vice President of the United States.

Kirk Douglas:  Reports that the stroke he suffered in 1996 changed him in ways that enriched his life.  “I found that when I began to think about the well-being of other people… I began to feel better.”

Overcame the adversity of polio:  Alan Alda, Mia Farrow, Donald Sutherland, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Robert McNamara, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lance Armstrong:  The world knows and celebrates Lance Armstrong for his unparalleled seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France bicycle race. But Armstrong reveals he is prouder of his cancer victory than all of his racing wins.

I don’t think Heidi Klum has ever “respected her limits”!! 

 

No more self-inflicted wounds of defeat.  Maya was a quitter.  What will you be? 

Unless it is against the law or immoral–let us all push past limits today.