A Personal Testimony by Nick Vujicic - The Man Without Arms & Legs.

Hi Friend - this is a personal testimony of Nick Vujicic, the man without arms and legs. Please read and be encouraged.

My name is Nick Vujicic and I am thankful to have been born 30 years ago with no arms and no legs. I won’t pretend my life is easy, but through the love of my parents, loved ones, and faith in God, I have overcome my adversity and my life is now filled with joy and purpose. I res...

ide now in California with my wife, Kanae, and we both love seeing people’s lives changed for the better or touched in some way. It is my hope that your life is positively impacted by my story.

I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and it was a shock to my parents that I arrived without limbs. There is no medical reason for it. My parents did their very best to keep me in the mainstream school system and give me every opportunity to live to the fullest. I was blessed to have a brother and a sister as my best friends too.

We later moved to Brisbane, Australia, where I lived for 14 years before I made the move to California. At age eight, I could not see a bright future ahead and I became depressed. When I was ten years old, I decided to end my life by drowning myself in a bathtub. After a couple attempts, I realized that I did not want to leave my loved ones with the burden and guilt that would result from my suicide. I could not do that to them.

I wasn’t depressed my entire childhood, but I did have ups and downs. At age thirteen I hurt my foot, which I use for many things like typing, writing and swimming. That injury made me realize that I need to be more thankful for my abilities and less focused on my disabilities.

When I was fifteen years old, I sealed my faith in God and from there it has been an amazing journey.

A janitor at my high school inspired me to start speaking about my faith and overcoming adversity when I was seventeen. I spoke only a dozen times to very small groups over the next two years. Then I found myself in front of three hundred sophomore (grade 10) students and I was very nervous. My knees were shaking. Within the first three minutes of my talk, half the girls were crying, and most of the boys were struggling to hold their emotions together. One girl in particular was sobbing very hard. We all looked at her and she put her hand up. She said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but can I come up and hug you?”

She came hugged me in front of everyone, and whispered in my ear, “Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one has ever told me that they loved me and that I am beautiful the way I am.”

Her gratitude inspired me to go across 44 countries and speak 2,000 times. I realized that we all need love and hope and that I was in a unique position to share that with people around the world.

While majoring in both accounting and financial planning at a university, I also worked on developing my abilities as a speaker. I worked with a speaking coach who helped to cultivate me as a presenter. He especially worked on my body language as my hands flew everywhere at first!

I spoke on motivational topics after creating the company, attitude is altitude. I also launched a non-profit ministry, life without limbs, to spread my messages of faith and hope around the world.

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whatever you are dealing with, I hope that you will be inspired by my story and my message. Please enjoy browsing around this website where I share with you my thoughts on faith, hope and love to encourage you and to help you overcome your own challenges.

Dream big my friend and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you too will overcome.

Be encouraging always.

 

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.”
- Nick Vujicic

 

Nick can be found all over the internet!

 

Check out his Facebook page here.

One View to a Motivated You

We're all looking for ways to get motivated, stay motivated and move forward. Sometimes we lose that little spark in us to keep trying, and we have to find new and innovative ways of reigniting it.

 

I'm a movie - pardon me - film buff and I love nothing more than a great inspirational monologue during a movie. It is the speech right before the climactic ending - the one where your skin tingles waiting for the next motivating words that makes men lay down their lives and teachers motivate students to greatness....that kind of thing. I love that stuff!

 

So, without further adieu - I present 40 movie based, skin tingling motivating speeches of characters of yesteryear......in 2 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Keep moving forward.

Never Give Up. Never.

The video you are about to watch will make you tear up, cry openly or bawl like a baby. I'm not sure which one applies for your experience (as you haven't had it yet....strange, right?), yet I assure you that you will love the video and the message behind it too. It may have something to do with the powerful music as well - and I'd like to think that if music moves you, that's an incredible thing. Either way - it's a win-win!

 

The video below is about an athlete named Derek Redmond. The footage is from 1992 - so don't anticipate HD or anything. He was about to run the Olympic 400 metre sprint and was the favorite to win. That has to instill some confidence, I would imagine.

 

 

 

I decided to explore further, heading to Derek' current website. Here's some of what I found....

 

 

Among his successes, Derek:

- Broke the British record in the 400m for the first time 1985 in a time of 44.82 seconds beating the 10-year-old mark set by David Jenkins. Then in 1987 reclaiming the record from Roger Black in 44.5 seconds

- Was a World silver medallist in 1987

- Was a World Gold Medallist in the 4x400m Relay in 1991, setting yet another British European and Commonwealth record and also running the second fastest time ever recorded for the 4x400m

Derek Redmond's achievements are all the more remarkable because his Olympic career was dogged by serious injury. In fact, no less than 13 operations on his Achilles tendons and knees forced him to pull out of many major competitions. He is regarded in sporting circles as an extraordinary talent who was never given the opportunity to show what he was really capable of.

Away from the athletics track, Derek has played basketball for England and professionally for Birmingham Bullets. He has coached and advised international athletes at Birchfield Harriers and has played competitive rugby union for Coventry RFC, Stow RFC, playing alongside the likes of Will Carling, Brian Moore, Rory Underwood and Gavin Hastings in a number of highly publicised invitational games.

Derek has been a regular on television and radio, including commentating for Eurosport and making appearances on programmes as diverse as Noel's House Party, Celebrity Gladiators and Equinox. He also presented a prime time basketball show for ITV. Derek has worked with UK Athletics as Director of Development for Sprints and Hurdles. His role involved identifying talented young athletes, inspiring them to commit to their discipline and providing them with the necessary facilities and support structure to enable them to progress from school level to junior international.

Derek draws on his vast experiences as an international sportsman to provide a fascinating and inspirational platform for his motivational speeches. In telling his story, Derek takes the audience on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, but also explains the secrets of his success, both as an individual and within a team.



The video clip was amazing, right? I thought so too!

Powerful and inspiring......and the message is one that benefits us all.

I'm not the type to spoil it for others by letting you know what happens in advance so let me know what you thought in the comments below.

The joy is in the ride!