"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it 
If you can dream it, you can become it."   WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD


So What If You Can't Read             Spiritmail  March 18th, 2008


Often we are blinded by someone’s brilliance and fail to see that they have overcome what to many others are insurmountable hurdles. This is because we see them for what they are rather than for what they were…

History and life is filled with people who have overcome amazing obstacles to achieve exceptional things. For example, what do the following people have in common…

Thomas Edison, Cher, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner and the incomparable Winston Churchill.

Before I let you into their common gift, let me share the wisdom of Denis Waitley, probably my favourite modern day philosopher:

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not."

And what is the common factor of these famous achievers?

…they are or were all dyslexic!



Each of these famous successful people, in achieving their success needed to read a lot. Do you know how hard it is for a dyslexic person to read?

But not a single one of those great people let dyslexia keep them from being all they were created to be.

When young people struggle with reading they lose self esteem because so much of life revolves around what is supposedly a simple skill.

 

The lack of self esteem consigns many to mediocrity when in fact we have all the skills we need to achieve greatness, we just need other skills to unlock our true gifts.

 


Enjoy this issue of The Maverick Spirit...  That's it for today, until next time, continue to enjoy being a free spirit in a complicated world... 

Wayne Mansfield

P.S.  What's the bet that you don't know how deep the world's deepest manmade hole is?? I knew it - you don't have any idea do you? Well the deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep. You should be able to answer at least one quiz question with that piece of trivia!
P.P.S.  You probably don't know the Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than 160 kilometres or one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

And for something really different:

Visit my daily thoughts and views at    Confessions of a Boy from Margaret River   where you can leave comments and ideas
on stuff that doesn't make it to The Maverick Spirit
 
Simple Secrets of Successful People - You MUST Have A Journal

When you write down the directions to be followed in yur life, you feel more in control.

People, who regularly keep a journal, or some kind of written record pertaining to their aspirations, are 32% more likely to feel like they are making progress in their lives


Source:          David Niven, Ph.D.  100 Simple Secrets of Successful People
MAVERICK QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses
and some don't turn up at all."

Sam Ewing
 

Samuel Maverick (1803-70) Texan rancher who, when branding of stock was introduced chose "Not to Brand." Every unbranded horse or cow he then claimed as a Maverick!

Feedback:   It's been a while since the last Maverick Spirit so I have selected just a few feedback pieces to include today. Hope you like them.

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Hi Wayne

Today I was reminded how much we have to celebrate in 2008 -

Great healing for many from the sorry statement
Signs of a new integrity and truth in government.
Environmental consciousness & action accelerating.

There are powerful changes afoot - so thanks for your positive thoughts - and remember to celebrate in 2008.

Richard O'Neill
www.SpiritSafaris.com

Hi Wayne

I tried the numbers game:

23/06/1961 adds up to 10 so where do I fit in?

Raj Patel
Pack & Send Hornsby

Wayne

Talk about Heat and rain in W.A. Don't you guys study the NSW
heat and rain news ?

I'll bet we had more rain than you did !

Jack Leech

Hello Wayne,

I have just read through the colours and numbers segment.
When I add up my birthday I get 30, which then becomes 3. I am definitely a three according to the personality, but if I wear yellow, I look sick.

O also don't like being surrounded with yellow "things" or paint, and a yellow room certainly does nothing for me, so how does this work?

I am more vibrant in red, and I am a force to be reckoned with, especially when I wear red.

Allison Walker
 

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