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Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 4

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We need to be more like the kind of person that Rudy is. These kind of people believe in themselves more than the opinions of others and they have the self-confidence and security necessary to do everything possible to get what they want. Many people like Rudy have defied the statistics and what others think impossible, <b>using the negative reviews as fuel to prove to others how wrong they are.</b><br />
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For example, some athletes do not have what is known as "biotype", even though they can practice the sport in which they are engaged. Quite simply, not having the right biotype means that your body does not meet the standard requirements for a given sport. <br />
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But the so called "biotype" is only a measure. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggsy_Bogues">The smallest athlete who has played in the best basketball league in the world, the NBA</a>, was only 1.60 meters tall (5'2''). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest_players_in_National_Basketball_Association_history">23 players like him now are part of the history of the NBA</a>, because they were only 1.75 meters tall (5'7'') -or less-. Two of them still play today. <br />
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This is simply amazing because <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_league_average_height,_weight,_age_and_playing_experience">the average height of a professional basketball player is 2 meters (6'5'')</a>. Of course, height in this sport is a crucial component. And such examples can be found in almost all sports.<br />
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In such cases it is worth asking where the limits really are. Surely, <b>a great part of limits are in our mind, not our body.</b> Although almost no one would be able to remember, there have been many people who have had everything to succeed (biotype, opportunities, endorsements, etc.) and go far, but they have not.<br />
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<b>I assure you that the tallest or strongest players are not the best.</b> And I'm also sure that the most talented does not necessarily win championships or major awards. And this is so easy to recognize, that you can easily generalize this conclusion to almost any competitive sport context.<br />
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You need to bear in mind that <b>you have the power to transform your reality, to overcome the statistics</b> ¡or to make the impossible so statistics include you!. The single most important factor to achieve your strongest desires does not lay in the things you can not change, like your physical abilities or certain talents, but in the things you do can change and improve.<br />
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The most important factor to make a dream true is unpredictable, you can not measure it and it has no limits, but it is available for you and for anyone. <br />
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<i>You just have to be stubborn enough. <br />
You just have to be motivated enough. <br />
You just have to fight for what you want enough.</i> <br />
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There are people with better resources than yours (and there always will be), but in many cases, what makes the real difference is that you want to achieve something more than everybody else. <b>When you want victory more than anybody else. That desire may have more momentum than all other factors combined.</b></div>
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<i>Rudy is a profound example of the human ability to surmount obstacles and achieve success, said UVUSA Student Senator Billy Swadley. His presence at UVU will set the tone for how students tackle their own personal barriers this school year.<br />
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Ruettiger, the son of an oil refinery worker and third of 14 children, has become one of the most popular motivational speakers in the United States. His story of overcoming the doubt and numerous obstacles preventing him from going to college and achieving his ultimate dream of playing for the Fighting Irish has become a classic through the namesake movie he inspired.<br />
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Swadley said UVUSA hopes Ruettigers message will set the tone for an achievement-filled school year.</i><br />
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I want to leave you with some links if you want to find more material about Rudy Ruettiger and the film, Rudy.<br />
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<li>First, <a href="http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/rudy.php">you can find in this webpage</a>, some FAQs about the movie, such as <i>"Was the groundskeeper played by Charles S. Dutton a real character?"</i> or <i>"Is it true that Rudy was the only player to ever be carried off the field at Notre Dame stadium?"</i> You can also find an interview and a mini-bio of Rudy Ruettiger. Of course, you'll find more related links there. <br /></li>
<li>Second, you can <a href="http://www.rudyinternational.com/">visit the official page of Rudy</a> and find out more about the movie and the person. For example, be inspired with <a href="http://www.rudyinternational.com/inspirational.cfm">"Game plans for winning at life"</a>, material about <a href="http://www.rudyinternational.com/truestory.cfm">the real story of Rudy</a>, <a href="http://www.rudyinternational.com/truestory_photo.cfm">pictures</a>, <a href="http://www.rudyinternational.com/truestory1.cfm">questions and answers about Rudy and the movie</a> and more.<br /></li>
<li>Third, it is mandatory for you to visit the article about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Ruettiger">Rudy Ruetigger</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_%28film%29">film Rudy</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0015411/quotes">check out some of the best quotes of the movie</a> and read this story from the <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/328263-the-true-story-of-notre-dames-famous-walk-on-daniel-rudy-reutigger">BleacherReport.<br /></a></li>
<li>Finally, I recommend you this article about the <a href="http://motivatorman.blogspot.com/2009/05/tip254-activate-your-inner-drive-rudy.html" rel="nofollow">lessons from Rudy to activate your inner drive</a>. </li>
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Remember that you're allowed to fall, but you must get back up!  #YourChangeIsNow

Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 4

We need to be more like the kind of person that Rudy is. These kind of people believe in themselves more than the opinions of others an...

Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 3

<div style="text-align: right;"><i>"Getting what you want is only a problem </i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>if you have nowhere to go next. </i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Dreaming is a lifetime occupation."</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/rudy.php">Rudy Ruettiger</a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let's consider for a moment our dreams, be them large or small, possible or impossible. Surely we have the belief that, because of certain past and current conditions, some of our fondest dreams are only possible in an alternate universe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;">Without thinking too much, we discard our dreams and decide to keep them in the trunk of the Forgotten Dreams. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we ever were to tell anyone about them, they immediately would say that our dreams are mere desires and fantasies.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe we want to be famous, multimillionaire or very talented people; but it seems like every aspect of our life is determined to be contrary to those dreams:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We are ugly.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We are small. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We have no talent. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Our physical and intellectual attributes are very poor</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We can not afford a good education</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We can not invest in things in order to achieve what we want.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most of us are totally discouraged at this point and then, we try to establish for ourselves humble and small goals. Without having even tried to chase our dreams, <b>we are abandoning what we want most in life because those things just seems impossible.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some others try and, when confronted with "real life", begin to think that everything is against them. <b>Overwhelmed by the first failures, they decide to stop suffering 'unnecessarily' and forget about something that they believe is something unattainable.</b></div><br />
This happened to Rudy too. But listen closely to what the groundskeeper said to him:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another group of people tend to accept that the opinion of others is the most important thing in the world and they end up accepting -one way or another- that <b>what they can and can not do is always going to be determined by others</b>. For this reason, many people are afraid to share their dreams and projects, because they feel that <b>their motivation increases or decreases according to what others think</b>. In this sense, some of us just dream secretly, we do not want to face ridicule, criticism or judgments. We do not want other people to tell us if we are doing something wrong or right.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this attitude is telling your conscience things like these:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<li>Your are being irrational for dreaming something like that.</li>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ultimately, an idea begins to grow in your mind: <b>"It is more important what others think of you than what you think yourself".</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Is this the path you are going to walk in your life? </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I want to leave you with a video that resumes the movie perfectly.</div><br />
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You can read a slighly different version of this post, in spanish, here: <a href="http://tucambioesahora.blogspot.com/2014/10/lucha-por-tus-suenos.html">Lucha por tus sueños</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Remember that you're allowed to fall, but you must get back up!  #YourChangeIsNow</div>

Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 3

"Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation." Rudy Ruettiger Le...

Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 2

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In this post, I'm going to talk about the story of Rudy in the movie, if you could not watch it. If you want to see the movie (something I deeply recommend you to do), wait for the next post about this movie here or read the first part <a href="http://yourchangeisnow.blogspot.com/2014/10/motivational-movies-rudy-part-1.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</div>
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After age 22, Rudy's best friend, who always believed in him, dies in an accident. Shocked by this loss, Rudy realized that he must follow the dream he had since he was a child. <b>Everybody only anticipated failure in Rudy's  initiative. </b>His girlfriend did not support him and soon, she left him. His father tried to anchor him to "his place" within the family, the village and the world, <b>telling him that he could live comfortably with a simpler and less ambitious life, without having to take risks to chase an impossible dream, without wasting his time chasing something that he would never get.</b></div>
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Rudy ignored all of his and traveled to the University, but his grades were too low to be accepted. With his savings, he began to study at a junior college with the idea of transferring to Notre Dame when he could get good grades. Rudy had a learning disability, but he was willing to study hard and take hundreds of lecture notes in order to get good grades.</div>
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Then, he met a tutor who helped him academically. Rudy had no money to pay for his personalized classes; so he made a deal with his tutor: The tutor was very shy and he wanted to have a girlfriend. So, Rudy will introduce many girls to him so he could get a girlfriend. Rudy did not know any girls in college, so he invested a lot of time to meet girls and then present them to his new friend and tutor.</div>
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Rudy wanted to be near Notre Dame's football team, but he was not a student at Notre Dame, so he could not even take care of the organization and cleaning of the implements of the team. However, he offered himself to work for free with one of the people responsible for maintaining the stadium in which Notre Dame played. <b>He did this just to be involved in any way with his dream.</b></div>
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Rudy was homeless, but he managed to sleep in a room maintenance without nobody knowing it, while he still attended to his classes. At the end of each semester, he was sending a letter to be accepted into Notre Dame. <b>After many failed attempts</b>, he was finally accepted.</div>
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The first thing he did when he was accepted was to go to the trials for the football team. <b>His physical condition did not impress anyone, but the enthusiasm with which he made each exercise in order to be accepted, in the end, convinced the coaches,</b> who gave him the opportunity to be a "tackling dummy" for the other players. In other words, the team was supposed to train at the expense of Rudy's physical safety.</div>
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For two years, Rudy tried to be listed on the team, but <b>simply put, his physical capacity was insufficient, and it has always had been. However, Rudy kept training with the team, inspiring everyone with his energy and passion for the sport.</b></div>
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Rudy was not talented, but he was more persistent than any player in the team. He put his body and soul into every training.</div>
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In the end, his companions admired him so much that they insisted the coach to allow him to dress like a player in one of the official games of the team. The insistence of his colleagues was so intense that the coach reluctantly accepted. <b>This way, Rudy achieved his dream</b>. He even led his teammates to the field before the game and he was allowed to play in the final seconds thanks to his teammates. In the end, they raised him triumphantly off the field, an honor that no player has ever had in the history of the team.</div>
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You can read a slightly different version of this post in spanish here: <a href="http://tucambioesahora.blogspot.com/2013/03/inspiracion-de-pelicula.html">Inspiración de película: Rudy: Reto a la gloria</a><br />
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Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 2

In this post, I'm going to talk about the story of Rudy in the movie, if you could not watch it. If you want to see the movie (somethi...

Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 1

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<div style="text-align: justify;">As of now I open a section dedicated to extract the most important motivational ideas from the best movies I have seen. Unfortunately, the literature that specializes in motivational materials usually have serious disadvantages. Books and motivational videos are usually boring and repetitive, and although there are very good ones, most people are simply not interested in investing their time to read them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With movies, a funny thing happens: everyone talks about them and no one will ever judge you as boring to talk about a movie in most social contexts. They also have a very striking form and therefore we do not usually have trouble remembering our favorite ones. Personally, I assume that the multimedia material is the best one to reach the greatest number of people, and I also believe that, while most movies and videos are crap, there are numerous ways to take advantage of the movies that we like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently, I had the pleasure to watch a 1993 movie titled "Rudy". It is the true story of a young man who all his life wanted to be a football player. Sadly he was too small and weak to do so. Most of his family ended up working without a promising future. But Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger wanted to play for the prestigious Notre Dame University.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone around him, including his teachers, described him as a dreamer and he was cruelly discouraged whenever he talked about his dreams. And maybe they were right: <b>His grades were low, his athletic skills were poor and his body was small and thin. No one in his family had gone to college and he had no money.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nevertheless, Rudy always had his attention on his great illusion: being on the Notre Dame team. <b>He will do the impossible to fulfill his dream</b>. Unlike other films about sports, Rudy's struggle is very real and well dramatized. <b>Although Rudy ate, slept and breathed football, that did not transform him automatically in the best player on his team.</b> However, in one way or another, Rudy's dream will come true. Rudy had the heart and spirit of a warrior, despite not having an appropriate body to help him get what he wanted so badly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can not watch this film without, inevitably, be inspired by Rudy's heart and mental strength. Everybody tease him because his dreams are bigger than his body. His friends and family constantly discouraged him, criticized him and laughed at his stubborn ideas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surely, if we had met Rudy, most of us would conclude that his dream was impossible. We would tell him that you he was wasting his time and energy on a goal that was far beyond from what he could achieve. His intellectual and physical qualifications were few and mediocre. He had no money. He had not the body of an athlete. Apparently, <b>everything was against him and anyone could notice it almost instantly</b>. If any of us were to see someone like him with the same dreams, surely, we would think that he/she is delusional.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With all odds against him, Rudy fought against his fate and he never cared about other's opinions, even when those opinions were, more or less, "reasonable" ones</b>. At first, he was drawn by his family's fate. After school, he started working. But a painful event in his life will change his mind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Soon, the second part of this story will be published on the blog. Meanwhile, go watch the movie.<br />
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You can read a slightly different version of this post in spanish here: <a href="http://tucambioesahora.blogspot.com/2013/03/inspiracion-de-pelicula.html">Inspiración de película: Rudy: Reto a la gloria</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Motivational Movies: Rudy - Part 1

As of now I open a section dedicated to extract the most important motivational ideas from the best movies I have seen. Unfortunately, the...

You are the creator of your own destiny

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Many people believe that life is a matter of chance. They believe that the experiences and opportunities that arise spontaneously, besides being pleasant surprises, are the best way to live and even, to grow personally. <b>These people rely more on external events and for that reason wait for "things" to happen.</b> People like these believe in coincidences. They think that the universe has prepared a great future for them, simply because.</div>
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According to these people, you just have to "give it some time" and be resistant to your problems in life. After all, <b>"every cloud has a silver lining"</b>, so the best you can do is withstand the present difficulties. Sooner or later better times will come for you.</div>
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The destination that is written especially for you will find you and you will not have the complications you have now, after all, <b>"even the longest night comes to an end"</b>. So, one day, either you want it or not, your problems will come to an end.</div>
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Simply put, the extraordinary things in life appear unexpectedly. You just have to be -one way or another- ready to make use of the good times that the destination is offering -or will offer- you, tomorrow or in a couple of years.</div>
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<b>To all this fanciful and idealistic verbiage, I strongly oppose.</b> <br>