Charles Kingsford Smith.

If a young fellow came up to you with a partially amputated foot from a war injury and said he suffered from Panic attacks and a fear of the sea, what career would you suggest he take up? How a bout being a long –distance Pilot across the world’s ocean’s in a flimsy plane, in the then fledgling Industry?

Today (30^th of May, 2008) the world celebrates the 80^th anniversary of the above young man’s historic first flight of anyone ever across the pacific from America to Australia. Flying in the Southern Cross, Charles Kingsford Smith (Or Smithie, as he was popularly known henceforth,) and his crew, flew from California to Brisbane (via Hawaii and Fiji,) in just 8 days.

He later went on to make or break many other flying records. Not bad for a guy with who suffered from panic attacks and had a fear of the sea, is it?

It just shows what one can do if one sets their mind to it and has the wherewithal to just go out there and do what they believe in doesn’t it?

What about you? What do you believe in and what handicaps or fears do you have to overcome, to do all that you can do, and to be all that you can /should be? Remember, you will never know, if you don’t have a go! So what is there now that you know that you should have a go at now? Over to you.