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The Power of Determination 

A eight-year-old boy named Glenn Cunningham had the job of coming to school early each day so that he could use kerosene to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived. One fine day, as a result of an accident he had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to a nearby county hospital. The mother was told by the doctor that since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, it would almost be better if Glen had died, since he was doomed to be a lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.

Ultimately Glenn was released from the hospital. Every day afterward his mother and father would massage his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever. When he wasn't in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. Glenn pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.

He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, stake by stake, he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence. There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs.

Ultimately through his daily massages, Glenn's iron persistence and his resolute determination, he did develop the ability first to stand up, then to walk haltingly with help, then to walk by himself – and then miraculously – to run.

Glenn began to run to school. He ran for the sheer joy of running and being able to run. He ran everywhere that he could. The people in his town would often see him run by on his way to who knows where and smile. Later in college Glenn made the track team where his tremendous determination paid off. He eventually received the
nickname the "Kansas Flyer."

In February 1934, in New York City's famed Madison Square Garden, this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never  hope to run – this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the mile in four minutes and eight seconds, the world's fastest indoor mile! Later that same year in a prestigious outdoor track meet, he shaved another second off his record to run the world's fastest mile to that time.

Now, that's what we call determination.
 

"You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life."

 – John Addison

Healthy Recipe

Zesty Roasted Chicken

Makes: 6 servings

Ingredients:
• 3/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. chili powder (or to taste)
• 1 tsp. Tabasco sauce or your favorite hot pepper sauce (or to taste)
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• Salt and black pepper, to taste
• 1/2 roasting chicken, cut into parts, skin removed (approximately 1 1/2 lbs.)
• 1 tsp. dried Italian seasoning

Directions:
1. In deep glass baking dish, mix yogurt, cinnamon, chili power, hot sauce and garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add chicken and coat well with marinade. Cover dish tightly and marinate in refrigerator overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
3. Sprinkle Italian seasoning on chicken and place it on a raised broiler rack in oven. Immediately reduce the baking temperature to 350 degrees. Roast for about 1 1/2 hours.
4. Serve hot or cold.

Nutritional Information: (per portion)
 

160 calories,
4 g total fat (1 g saturated fat),
3 g carbohydrate,
26 g protein,
0 g dietary fiber,
110 mg sodium.

Top 10 to build right attitude for weight loss
 

Negative thought patterns are all too common among dieters and one of the main reasons why so many are unable to lose weight permanently. To find out if you have a generally negative attitude to exercise, healthy eating and weight loss, just listen carefully to what that little voice in your head begins saying when you think about making some real positive changes in your life.

Following are ten simple, workable rules for overcoming inadequacy attitudes and learning to practice faith. Thousands have used these rules, reporting successful results. Undertake these parameters and you, too, will build up confidence in your powers. You, too, will have a new feeling of power.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture. Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures. So always picture ‘success’ no matter how badly things seems to be going at the moment.

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