How to kick your excuses to the curb

Think you have it hard?

Are you alive?  Can you write?  Do people automatically discount your worth because you were supposed to be dead when you were 2?

I just read Jonathan Morrow's post on Copyblogger.com, and it took my breath away.  Jonathan was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy as a baby and was supposed to be dead by the time he turned 2.  The post talks about how his mom kicked every butt she could find to ensure Jonathan stayed alive, then kicked some more butt to ensure Jonathan had access to the opportunities he needed to become a great writer.  He's 27 and kicking some writerly butt at Copyblogger.  But the focus of the post isn't on Jonathan and how great he and his mom are.  The focus of the post is on YOU, the writer, the creative person, the doer.  YOU have the same responsibility to guard and champion your ideas and your writing with the ferocity of a mother.  What would this world be like if everyone lived this way?

Read his post!  It's called On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for your ideas.