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Invictus games, funny how spell check wants to change that to “I victims” but what does extraordinary mean to you. One of my friends wrote on face book the other day.
COMMON…..being “common” is a very easy way to “fit it”, listen to common people, doing what common people do, living how common people live, going to common places,driving common cars,living in common houses, having a common bank acount…….I preferr to listen and take advice from EXTRAORDINARY people, so I can live an extraordinary life,go extraordinary places, drive extraordinary cars,live in extraordinary houses, have a extraordinary bank acount…….so the extraordinary becomes my “common”!!
The man that wrote that, had his career cut short. He was at the top of his game and someone I respected greatly and respect greatly to this day. You see it’s not what happens to us that make extraordinary people just that. It’s our response to what happens in our life that makes us who we then become. Many times in my life I have heard or even said. “I can’t because” I hate those three words, I even despise them. But I have learnt to see those words as as a way to show the world I CAN. That attitude is how things get done. Now please don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I am extraordinary. But I do know how it feels to do an extraordinary thing. To beat cancer twice is extraordinary in anyone’s book. To cheat death is an amazing thing.
You have to then turn your thoughts to the up and coming invictus games where there are many many people that will be competing in a games invented by an extraordinary Prince Harry. There are many many people on this planet where we can gain encouragement from. Doing something extraordinary starts with one step, it is a choice to become something or achieve something no matter what the world throws at us.
Anyone that beats the odds are amazing in my book, you don’t need to have an extraordinary bank account to be extraordinary. But you do have to be willing to make the first step forwards. That choice is yours.
Fonz
fonzandcancer blogging to encourage. 
Many extraordinary people have faced uncommon obstacles. In fact, it is hard to achieve extraordinary feats without some extraordinary circumstances. I don’t say it can’t be done, but most people do not have the motivation to achieve without some competition from outside forces.
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Interesting thoughts thank you.
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Caught your blog on the featured bloggers post…really glad I did…extraordinary inspirational words…hope you don’t mind me following your journey my potential new blogging friend…a the creaking joints chap says above…extraordinary is the way to describe you 😊
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Wow that’s amazing Gary. Thank you so much, that means so much please feel free to message when ever you like. My journey is nearly a year old. Although my 365 in 365 day blog challenge has finished.mi still blog. I will check out what you are doing on my return. (On holiday) I hope this finds you well. Mark 😊
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You are more than welcome Mark…more than welcome. You actually diarised a whole year of the journey? Shoot thats even more amazing…I struggle with one a week and there’s nothing wrong with me 🤔 How inadequate is that !!!! Enjoy the holiday and no doubt paths will surely cross upon your return my new friend 😊
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Paths always cross for a reason. And yea, read back to a year ago I was having a bone marrow transplant to beat cancer a second time. 😊
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Something I think too…doors are always there if one chooses to see them…if not then life can be a dark place indeed. A second time?? Sheesh go you…that is now even MORE inspiring !! I’ll certainly troll back through your blog and catch up on things…🙃
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Thanks Danny. 😊
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That remind me of ” Invictus”- a short Victorian poem by poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in his darkest moment while conquering life and death. I retreat always to “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gait,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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Keep being you! We need you in this world! 🙂
Extraordinary-(((HUGS)))
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Keep on keeping on. Well done for doing so.
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Thanks again Harry 😊
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Great post on being yourself by being extraordinary.
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U got it xx
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“It’s our response to what happens in our life that makes us who we then become.” Well said! And you are giving us one good example after another, day by day, of pulling oneself up, out of the “common,” inspiring toward the “extraordinary.” 🙂
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Thanks so much, it fills me with anticipation of what is to come from those who feel inspired. 😊
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Great blog Fonz..In my book you are extraordinary be well….😊😊
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Thanks for your encouragement. 😊
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