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Inspirations For EverythingBlind
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June 2010
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And now June's issue! Enjoy!
Here with Inspirations we would like to give something to everyone. We want it to be a work of the readers, so remember to keep an
open mind and jump in with your own submissions to Inspirations.
Often we can get turned off because someone has a different view or faith or even outlook on life. We can tend to quickly judge a person's opinion or belief as invalid. and when we do this, we can also tend to overlook their great achievements in life.
It is important to remember that in order to live a good and just life, we should try to treat others as we would like to be treated. The golden rule applies in all faiths, religions and walks of life.
although we do not have to believe what others say, we must at least listen and take into consideration that their beliefs are valid to them. Who knows, you may even learn something of value to yourself!
I ask that you keep an open mind, as many of the Inspirations featured here in our publication may not resonate with you right away nor ever. Please tune in next month and you may find someone to inspire you to greatness! The blind community contains all sorts of people, beliefs, and religions and we can all come together to inspire each other.
I as the editor of Inspirations will never present only one viewpoint or religious denomination. I only wish to remain neutral and present to you the stories of people who have inspired others.
Take some time and find an inspiration , today!
Then share who you’ve found with the rest of our readers.
Visit our Personal Growth page at: Personal Growth at EverythingBlind www.everythingblind.com/personal-growth.html
And go on your own personal journey to find your gifts and strengths. There are many inspirational people and teachers introduced and you should be able to find something that resonates with you.
What You Can Expect
Each month we will share with you stories, and information on the individuals that have set their sights on inspiring!
the people just like us, who have lost their physical sight, but, not their vision. that keep us going and growing as not only blind and visually impaired individuals,
but also as able and active individuals.
Please send information on these individuals that you know of, so we can share them here or tell us about yourself and why you are such an inspiration!
FEATURED INSPIRATIONS
As before mentioned in Inspirations, often it helps to find an inspiration to get us past difficult challenges. Sometimes this is a person or group who seems to surpass all possibilities and yet are known to be just ordinary people like you or me.
For this first issue of Inspirations, I thought it fitting to tell you all about one of my biggest inspirations when I first went blind
After I went totally blind and learned how to use a computer, I found great frustration in trying to find information on the internet. I thought to myself, "if I could only make a website where all the information about blindness could be found in one place, life would be much easier."
Well, I then thought to myself, "a blind person can not build and maintain a website" and forgot about the notion. Soon after, I came across a website by an inspirational young woman named Shirley Cheng. On her website, she claimed that she had indeed built the website herself, and also maintained it. Inspired, I contacted Shirley and got her help and encouragement to begin what you now find at www.EverythingBlind.com
Shirley was a wonderful person who came into my life to inspire me to do something I never thought I could do.
Following is Shirley's amazing story:
Shirley Cheng was born in 1983 and is a blind and physically disabled award-winning author (with twenty-six book awards, including nine Parent to Parent Adding Wisdom Awards and Mom's Choice Awards®), motivational speaker, self-empowerment expert, poet, and author of nine books and contributor to more than twenty books, has had severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since infancy. Owing to years of hospitalization, she received no education until age eleven. Back then, she knew very little English and her book knowledge was non-existent. However, after only about 180 days of special education in elementary school, she mastered grade level in all areas and entered a regular sixth grade class in middle school. Unfortunately, Shirley lost her eyesight at the age of seventeen. After a successful eye surgery, she hopes to earn multiple science doctorates from Harvard University.
Shirley is also an advocate of parental rights in children's medical care www.shirleycheng.com/parentalrights.html, and aide/caregiver monitoring and screening for students with special needs and disabled people www.shirleycheng.com/advocate.html. As a parental rights advocate, she wants to help today's loving parents protect and keep custody of their children. "When doctors ask yes or no, parents should have the right to say no," says Shirley, who is the survivor of the 1990 five-month internationally broadcast news of mother Juliet Cheng's custody battle with a doctor. Juliet was on CBS This Morning with Paula Zahn.
Shirley promotes aide advocacy for the disabled because she was mistreated and abused by one-to-one aides when she attended school. "The trouble with the uncaring aides actually lies in the authorities," she says. "If they listened to my complaints and kept a close watch on the aides, I wouldn't have gone through all the suffering."
"Although I'm blind, I can see far and wide; even though I'm disabled, I can climb high mountains," says Shirley. "Let the ropes of hope haul you high!"
Shirley Cheng is the author of the seven-award winner Waking Spirit: Prose & Poems the Spirit Sings (with foreword by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Brian), a heartfelt collection that explores a world of dancing hearts, singing spirits, with infinite love from life (ISBN: 9780615136806 paperback; 9780615138930 hardback); award winner Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide (ISBN: 9780615155227); Daring Quests of Mystics, a soothing read to relax the mind, body, and spirit (ISBN: 9781411656642); an empowering 700-page autobiography, The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine: A Young Woman's Autobiography of 20-Year Victories over Victimization (ISBN: 9780615150444); Dance with Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart Tells, a collection of inspirational and fantasy short stories (fairy tales, fables, and myths) and poems for the heart from the heart (ISBN: 9781411618589); Parental Rights in Children's Medical Care: Where Is Our Freedom to Say No? A Look at the Injustice of the American Medical System (ISBN: 9780615149943).
With highly acclaimed experts like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, and Brian Tracy, Shirley co-authored Wake Up...Live the Life You Love: Finding Your Life's Passion, Second Edition, the latest installment in the bestselling Wake Up...Live the Life You Love series; she is also the co-author of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2, along with leading experts Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson, Alan Cohen, Bob Proctor, et al.
She had been published twice before her writing career. One of her short stories, Mary Miller, the Elusive Lady, received Honorable Mention and was published by the Poughkeepsie Journal in 1997, and a poem, The Colors of the Rainbow, earned merit status and was published in Celebrate! New York Young Poets Speak Out in 1999.
In 2006, Shirley tied for 1st place in the national writing contest for Be the Star You Are! founded by New York Times bestselling author, TV/radio personality Cynthia Brian, garnering her a third appearance on Cynthia's live radio show. Shirley's winning entry, titled The Jewel from Heavenly Father, is dedicated to her beloved mother Juliet Cheng. In 2007, Shirley received Honorable Mention in the same contest for her essay, I Hold the Power, her personal story of overcoming blindness at age seventeen.
Shirley is available for interviews, speaking engagements, book signings, and inspirational events. She has been on over twenty radio shows (as of December 2006), including Be the Star You Are! for three times, The Donna Seebo Show, and Stu Taylor on Business. She was featured in World Journal, the largest Chinese national newspaper in North America, in July of 2004.
The previous biography and a more detailed one can be found at:
About Shirley Cheng http://www.shirleycheng.com/author.html
Would you like to find out more about Shirley? Visit her inspirational site to purchase Shirley's books and also to subscribe to her monthly Inspirations newsletter, visit:
ShirleyCheng.com
This Month'sBELLY LAUGH
providing some humor to lighten your day! Be sure to pass it along, as everyone is helped with a smile.
Little Michael was staying with his grandmother for a few days. He'd been playing outside with the other kids for awhile when he came into the house and asked his Grandma, "what is that called when two people are sleeping in the same room and one is on top of the other?"
She was a little taken aback, but decided to tell him the truth.
"It's called sex", she replied.
Little Michael just said, "Oh, okay" and went back outside to talk and play with the other kids.
A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily,Grandma, "it is not called sex! It's called Bunk Beds! and Jimmy's Mom wants to talk to you!"
INSPIRATIONS ARCHIVES
Archives of Inspirations For EverythingBlind can be viewed at: Inspirations For EverythingBlind Archives http://www.EverythingBlind.com/Inspirations_For_EverythingBlind_Archives.html
FROM THE EDITOR
Hello everyone!,
As promised, here's the latest
The new publication of Connections is up and running and if you are subscribed, you should have received a notice from Lori Motis, the new editor.
If you are not subscribed and wish to be, please send an email to
lorimotis@frontiernet.net
with Subscribe to Connections in the subject line.
Best of luck to Lori in her new endeavor. Please support her and the blind community by spreading the word!
Again, remember that Inspirations is a work of the readers and I urge you to send your suggestions and feedback.
We wish many more of you to send in your contributions so EverythingBlind and Inspirations can be a real place to Connect with what you want and need.
Also remember to send your links of the sites you most visit so they can be added to EverythingBlind.com and Inspirations.
Heidi@everythingblind.com
Thanks so much for all of your warm wishes and your blessings and continued support.
Stay Inspired!,
Heidi Hockman
Chief Editor
EVERYTHING NEW AT EVERYTHINGBLIND
Following is information and the new links that have been added to www.EverythingBlind.com
There’s new information posted about VIP Conduit and Out of Sight
Check it out at: Inspirations For EverythingBlind new links http://www.EverythingBlind.com/Blog.html
and find the heading for Chat Rooms.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcing a free seminar for writers, The Music of Writing, in 5 sessions of 90 minutes each via telephone conference call.
Generally, the calendar for each 5-session seminar is set according to the schedules of the participants.
To sign up, call Rebecca Hein at 1-888-921-9595.
Or send an email to:
rhein@vcn.com
and put The Music of Writing in the subject line. If you email, please follow up with a phone call because emails can occasionally get lost.
Testimonials from previous Seminar participants are available on request.
Class size is limited to 5 participants, and will be filled on a first come, first-served basis. Enrollment for the current section closes on July 31, 2010.
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
Please visit: http://quotations.about.com/ Where we found these Integrity quotes:
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
Richard Bach
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
Sven Goran Eriksson
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
Henry Ford
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
James R. Cook
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
Christopher Darlington Morley
How You Can Help
Please forward this to all of your friends and colleagues.
We are bringing the blind community closer together.
Heidi
Experience Personal Growth
One of our goals is to take each of you who are willing and ready to grab a hold of a dream and help you to run with it.
OK, so you may be blind, but who cares. Find what it is that makes you passionate and live it.
Please, visit my personal growth www.everythingblind.com/personal-growth.html
page to find some ways to help you do this
Looking For ...
In this section we will post your requests, for free, of something you need that you have not been able to easily find.
This may range from a product or service that you require, or a resource or just to make new friends to correspond with.
Send your submissions to this category,
every 3 months, with looking for ... in the subject line.
Visit a website for the blind!
We have put together a site where all VIPs their friends, family, and anyone else that wants to find something pertaining to vision or
vision loss, can come to interact and learn.
Check it out!
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