Inspiration to Press On!

• Are there times you "just don't feel like exercising"?
• Ever had a pity party that you turned xx age?
• Those aches and pains seem like a good excuse for not following through?
• Why bother, Life is not fair, it's too hard.

Here's an inspiring news note I just received:

Good luck to Jason Pipoly, who's going to attempt to swim an entire 40 miles
down the Hood Canal in Puget Sound this Saturday (August 30). That's
awesome in itself, but Jason is paralyzed from the chest down

Well, those excuses and poor self image comments just met their match in Jason Pipoly . This isn't the first time he's attempted the near impossible. At age 11 he attempted the English Channel and got within 4 miles of completing it, 16 years later, a car accident left him paralyzed. When most of us would shut down, he ramped up. Four years after his accident, he conquered the English channel, went on to swim 21 miles from Los Angeles Harbor to Catalina Island. Today he will attempt to be the first person to swim the Hood Canal, 40 miles and nearly twice the distance of Pipoly's Catalina crossing. Here is a youtube documentary by the film crew following him.

His goal: to encourage others who face similar challenges in life and show that they can move beyond whatever limitations they think may be in front of them to accomplish their dreams.
I'm inspired, and I don't have nearly the issues to work around.

Press on, Jason! And to everyone reading this- PRESS ON anyway!

follow his progress: twitter.com/jasonswims.