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Good Evening. Here is a great thought for the day: Erik has worked as a middle-school teacher, run marathons, and performed acrobatic skydiving stunts. He's also a scuba diver, downhill skier, and long-distance bicyclist. Those are impressive accomplishments for any 32-year old. However, Erik has been blind since age 13, when a degenerative eye disease destroyed his retinas. But being blind has not prevented him from embracing all life has to offer. Recently Erik hit a new personal high by becoming the first blind climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, the tallest challenge in the world for any mountaineer and this guy did it blind. "I just kept telling myself: 'Be focused,'" Erik explained to a CNN interviewer after his ascent, "'Be full of energy. Keep relaxed. Don't let the distractions — the fear and the doubt — creep into your brain, because that's what ruins you up there.'" Keep focused on the basics. That's good advice for climbing any kind of mountain, be it made of rock or something more personal.
"Each morning is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When the sun rises tomorrow this day will be gone forever, in its place will be something you have left — may it be something good. Follow your heart, it knows what to do." London Delicious stories are distributed weekly by email. If you'd like to be sure not to miss our next story, sign up for a free subscription here:
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