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Published: 2016-08-16
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXQ6ebbC1c
what if young women around the welts wearing card should be more rather than less what if the focus shifted from how we appear the possibilities of what we can do as a young woman I live in a world where I am constantly bombarded with messages to be less to a plus two well less to be skinnier to shrink my ambitions defeating to wipe my Prince Charming
to come and save me or to avoid activities better for boys because I'm not strong enough for his tough these messages fuel my fees in securities I and then left wondering all the time whether I'm good enough or whether I should just play it safe so I don't end up making myself look silly but imagine if all the young women in a particular country took one
step forward in terms of the level of belief in the arm possibilities how much water with the future of that country bay now imagine if all the young women on this planet took that same step forward in their thinking as to what is possible for themselves how much broader with the future of our world free for everyone that's adventurous thinking and by the way it is
so much more fun to try and be more rather than less in April this year at the age of fourteen I can youngest person male or female in history too scared to the North Pole from anywhere outside the Los agree thank you it was also the longest journey to the po by anyone on the planet in the last two years thank you I do I just
let that was as heavy as me however dozens of a hundred and fifty calamitous as measured in a straight line from the pole on this case in minus thirty degree temperatures a hundred fifty cases might not sound too bad and to you in this environment up there on the Arctic Ocean let's never get away around all over compression signs west C. asses collided trade ice rubble
and sometimes as I struggle can become walls of ice made is high we also define nowhere around more delays with the CS a split well we couldn't we had to build a bridge with us leads all someone supercross in an emotion so while the rest of us support across on a rough made from a science we were traveling on floating sea ice so the ocean currents
kept drifting us off course and we will often hearing the CS crack beneath us I'm wondering where the mood full theory into the freezing are shown below well Sir cross polled attracts I would stay why can not listening for them not that we could say well anyway as it is twenty four hour diode out there is time of year anonymous dear eva I learned how to
ski via before on a three day trip to New Zealand there's not much snow where I live so I trying virtually every day for every year before hands including by dragging ties around which is pretty close to the real thing so as you can imagine the going was slower and hot aside from a few blisters I lost the feeling in the tips of my fingers which
eventually came back off so the skin had died and food off and the worst part of %HESITATION I got frustrated on my upper thigh and my bone from having to exploit myself to the freezing cold and leans every time I went to the toilet but I loved it it was the best experience of my life so far and I fell in love with this beautiful yet
fragile part of our plan and as much as I couldn't wait to get home and see my family and friends I was really sad life next I prove my plan is a five hundred forty calamitous across screen then age fifteen I know the end of next year ski one thousand one hundred seventy kilometers from the course of Antarctica to the South Pole and by then I'll
be sixty if I can get there aside from a few minor records I'll be the youngest person to skate to both posts and to complete the Paul Hetrick so what have I learned in my brace life so far that might be worth sharing I have learned that all those messages I receive daily to be less our room I have learned the bike spending my dreams it
it's been impossible to think about shrinking instead of focusing on how we look let's focus on what our bodies and our minds can do you and discover the incredible possibilities that we are capable loath I can contribute to this vote there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your physique but the problem isn't people sacrifice their capability all the health for the sake of fitting into
some visual standard shite about the papal let's make about what you do not how you look if you think about it the funny thing about many popular fitness social media accounts is it that price pictures of themselves standing in front of a mirror doing nothing okay so inspiring that's sure to make the rest of us so feel bad I think it's much more inspiring to see
photos and videos of people actually doing something so how do we change things how do we shift our focus for me when I see other women go for despite Thea I learn what is possible there are some amazing examples of young women in history choosing to be more but just as amazing to me either go see managed to work part time while studying support their families
you'll see stand up for what they believe in does he get up in the dark age morning to train to be the best the sport I love does he stay up late studying hard to make the most of the education any go refuses to buy into the messaging to be less so if you know my parents my relative my teacher all my coach and I'm talking
to you don't be over protective of me just because I'm a go encourage me to take risks enticing dreams that are important to me now you this sisterhood let's celebrate the achievements of our girlfriends don't cut them down I've been amazed at the support I have a say from my friends but Marcin portable we must start with ourselves we are our own worst enemies we need
to get out of our own way and stop caring so much about what other people think the truth is everybody else is worried about what everybody else thinks about them we need to focus on what we want for ourselves in line with their own personal buddies but there is about parents or friends of the school you attend don't do if others do it for you your
expense well way believe it's possible we must have courage we must be prepared I am willing to file don't wait until you think you can do something perfectly just get started I had really only been skiing once in my life the full and then I try to stay to the north po which is pretty for you to stop and think about it I also tried paying
sending up using a pay phone no in minus twenty degrees and I thought I owed miserable if you I spend the rest of the day scheme pants that were covered in my arm brazen pay courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to take action despite the presence of fear or self doubt without bravery allies remain small so let's all commit to take one
step forward now thinking I know expectations as to what is possible for young women to chafe what's constantly check ourselves so we are focusing on what we can do not how we appear although small steps will soon add up and we will collectively expands what is possible for young women and as a result for the future about wells thank you fifteen yeah
