My Success Story By Joshua Nicholas

 *CUNNINGHAM: DOGGED DETERMINATION!* 

Determination decides our chances and drives our success. 

Once, a young school boy was caught in a fire accident in his school and was assumed that he

would not live. His mother was told that he was sure to die, for the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body. Even if he were to survive, he would be a cripple throughout his

life. 

But the brave boy did not want to die nor did he want to be a cripple. Much to be the amazement of the doctor, he did survive. But unfortunately

from his waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just dangled there, lifeless. Ultimately he was discharged from the hospital.

But his determination to walk was indomitable. 

At home, when he was not in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One day, he threw

himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. He

reached the picket fence, raised himself up and then stake by stake, he began dragging himself

along the fence, his resolve to walk undeterred. 

He did this every day, with faith in himself that

he would be able to walk unaided. With his iron persistence and his resolute determination, he

did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk haltingly, then to walk by himself and then to run.

He began to walk to school, then run to school, to run for the sheer joy of running. Later in college he made the track team.

In February 1934, in New York City’s

famed Madison Square Garden, this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run – this _*determined*_ 

young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran

the world’s fastest mile.

An epitome of the power of positive thinking and

faith in one’s self,

Glenn Cunningham continues to be an inspiration for many, and his story, a brilliant testimony to how one can bounce back even when all odds are stacked against one, to the extent that death seemed the preferable option.

This story similar to Wilma Rudolph’s all had sturborn determination to excel in life. They never allowed their present circumstances to decide their fate. They pushed it hard with faith, unity and purpose.

Joseph my mentor also had sturborn determination. He never got distracted; despite Portiphar’s wife advances. Because he has seen the picture of his future, he refused anything to come in his way. 

Are you been distracted? Is your present circumstance frightening? Are your goals looking impossible? I have a word for you. Just like Joseph, Rudolph, Cunningham be sturborn, dogged and refuse to stop trying.

#see you at the top

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