Success Depends On The Power of Your Imagination
Just image breaking down the borders that are holding you back from being successful in your business. If you can simply move beyond your 
circumstances and create positive progress you can succeed at anything. Amy Purdy lost both of her legs at the young age of 19 due to bacterial meningitis. She struggled with depression but was able to beat the odds after learning to accept her new reality.
Amy didn’t settle for any stereotype limitations that are often instilled in those who lose both legs. She was unable to find prosthetics that would permit her to once again get on her beloved snowboard. So she put her imagination to work and built her own prosthetics. Amy Purdy is a world champion gold medal winning female adaptive snowboarder.
If watching Amy’s Living beyond limits presentation does not inspire you to break down the boarders that are stopping you from being successful then maybe you should keep that 9 to 5 job.
In 2005, Amy co-founded Adaptive Action Sports, a non-profit dedicated to introducing people with physical challenges to action sports.
In the video she explains how our lives are not determined by the good or bad things that happen to us, but by the choices we make. Amy has faced hardships that most of us will never ever face, yet we still choice to be unsuccessful in our business venture.
Take action on what you learn from Amy and don’t be a victim of your own boards.
Tim Somers
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Great thought …and true too. Imagination is key.
Hey Barry, thanks for stopping by!
I just love stories like this, and I also love TED and TEDX. Great message and more important than ever these days because for every big dream there are plenty of ways the world will try to convince you not to bother. Most people don’t fully grasp the power they have to make their dreams a reality. Thanks!
I just came across TED and TEDX Marquita, great resources for sure. I just told my girls the same “you have the ability to make or break your dreams”.
Hello Tim
Albert Einstein said “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Amy Purdy is a testimony that imagination is a preview of life’s coming attractions. It is the power of imagination that dispels the circumstantial limits existing in one’s life, When reader view Amy’s message they should understand how important it is to visualize everything at their best to improve their circumstances.
Thanks
Perry A Davis Jr
Music City
Well said Perry – I thought of Walt Disney too – that’s a man with a brilliant imagination. Cheers!
Imagination is free and is key ! One of the stories I always remember is about the man who created FEDEX. He imagined and created the system for a school work at college. Little did he know, he was going to fail the project but later gain incredible success, way beyond his imagination and leave a legacy for the whole world.
Alicia, I didn’t know about the FedEx created – going to google it – sounds like a great story.
Wow,
What an inspirational video. I cannot imagine being in this position.
I must admit as we build relationships and life moves ahead, it is not always so easy to think we have choice in everything. Yet, actually we do if we are ruthless like the shaman.
John, I had to watch it again today – was feeling a bit down, and after watching it again I realized how minor today’s problem was in comparison to what Amy was faced with and overcame.
Amy’s story definitely is proof that your success is controlled by you. My cousin who lives in Hawaii has Downs Syndrome and was featured last year in local newspapers for making the Pom Pon squad. No one had ever thought he would be high functioning enough for it, but he dedicates his life to hip hop dancing at the local Y and is a dance group too. There are so many people defying their limits because they think positive, and persevere.
How great for your cousin – our own possibles are unlimited for sure.
I couldn’t agree more with Amy’s philosophy. Limitations, while obviously limiting, can actually set us free. You’ll feel more like a prisoner in a vast and endless dessert (without any boundaries) than you’d in a prison behind bars. External limitations caused by a trauma or an accident can actually inspire us to reach deep within and discover new things and talents we never knew we had.
I should know. I was given up for dead 20 years ago, but now you can put me on your list of “most joyful people” on the planet.
Wow – glad you are here alive and kicking – thanks for stopping by.
this is a wonderfully inspiring story, Tim.
Excellent way of uplifting your readers….. Amy Purdy is obviously a very determined, creative and empowered person..
Thank you
Pete
Pete, thanks so much – I was blown away after watching Amy’s video.
Hi Tim,
We all create our own limitations in our minds. If we don’t see any, then there aren’t any just as Amy has defied the odds with her situation. I once met a man who was a quadriplegic having first lost use of his legs in a motorbike accident and then he had a plane crash and was almost burnt to death!
He focused on the 9,000 things he could still do, not what he couldn’t do.
Every day as I work my business towards my future, I think on what I have achieved to finally live here in the US and that is what keeps me going for me and my family!
Clare
Thank you Tim, for sharing the story of Amy Purdy. She truly is an inspiration.
I work with students with exceptionalities and this will be a great story to share with them.
It reminded of another inspirational person I introduced to the students by the name of Michael Davenport.
He has no arms so he draws with his mouth.
Nathan
Hey Nathan, wow Michael sounds like great roll model for your students.