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Don’t Allow Your Weaknesses to Limit You

We all have weaknesses and strengths – no matter who we are. Sometimes the weaknesses seem to outweigh the strengths and sometimes it’s the other way around（相反）. Some people get sick easily. Some struggle to manage their finances properly. Some people are hopeless communicators and struggle with relationships.

Many people leave it and that and accept it as just bad luck - but not everyone. Some people facing huge limitations still manage to achieve tremendous things. They rise above their weaknesses and do not allow them to limit their possibilities.

It’s Your Choice
I attended a school prize-giving ceremony not so long ago and the guest speaker was Andrew Becroft, who had a severe stutter as a child. Instead of allowing this to limit him, he chose to work hard to overcome it. He is now the Principal Youth Court Judge for New Zealand. Not only did he become successful, but he did so in a profession where he had to speak in front of others regularly — where his weakness is front and center for all to see. If he hadn’t worked on his speaking ability, it would have been very limiting to his life and career prospects.
Mark Inglis lost both of his legs below the knees in a mountaineering accident, but has since climbed Mt Everest.
Bill Wilson was an alcoholic who wanted to help other alcoholics and founded what was to become Alcoholics Anonymous, a movement that has helped millions of people.
No One Would Have Predicted These Successes
These above are cases involving individuals with significant limitations, and it can be easy to write them off as exceptions to the rule, but that’s not the case. They were just people with problems. If one of these people had told you what they hoped to achieve you would have nodded kindly while quietly thinking to yourself that they had no chance. And yet the results speak for themselves.

We All Face Challenges in Life
Most of us will never have to face the kinds of challenges these people faced. Yet most of us will never achieve to the degree that these people have either.
Unless we choose to.

我们每个人都有优点和缺点，不论你是谁。有时缺点似乎大于优点，有时则相反。有些人很容易生病。有些人努力管理好他们的财务。有些人很不善于交流，艰难地处理维系人际关系。
许多人对他们的缺点放任不理或者把它们当作是坏运气而接受，然而不是每个人都这样。有些人面对重大的局限仍然能取得极大的成就。他们超越了自身的缺点，不让这些缺点限制了他们获得成功的可能性。

这是你的选择。
不久以前我参加了一个学校的颁奖典礼。典礼的嘉宾发言人是安德鲁·克罗夫特，他小时侯曾经有过严重口吃。他没有让这个缺陷限制他，而是选择努力去克服它。他现在是新西兰的青年法院的首席法官。他不仅取得了成功，而且是在一个需要经常在他人面前讲话的职位——一个他的缺点暴露在前台和中心，所有人都看到的职位上，他取得了成功。如果他没有努力去提高他的讲话能力，这个缺陷可能会对他的生活和事业前途造成很大的限制。
马克·英格里斯在一次登山意外之中失去了膝盖以下的双腿，但他后来却登上了珠穆朗玛峰。
比尔·威尔逊是一个嗜酒者，他希望帮助其他嗜酒者。他成立了嗜酒者匿名互诫运动，帮助了数万人。

没有人预料到这些成功
上述事例中的人都有严重的缺陷，很容易把他们当作特例而认定他们会失败，但情况并非如此。他们只是有问题的人。如果这些人中的其中一人告诉你他们希望实现的目标，你可能会善意地点点头，却在心里默默地想他们没有机会。但结果不言自明。

我们都面临生活的挑战
我们大多数人都不会面对这些人所面对的挑战，而我们大多数人也无法取得这些人所取得的这么大的成就。
除非我们选择努力。

Sylvia_scj

It's so right. We shouldn't allow our weaknesses to limit us.