The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
-- Amelia Earhart
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How many dreams stay unrealized because they stay inside one's head, never to be put down on paper or spoken aloud? How often do we get paralyzed by any number of factors and then give up on whatever it was we wanted to accomplish or get done?
Even for something we know we have to do, we find reasons to not do it.
Inertia is just as hard for people to overcome as it is for an object untouched by outside forces, and this is true for making the decision to act. Once we decide to act, we set in motion all the related processes needed to support the completion of that act. Where once we were invested in doing nothing, now we're invested in doing whatever we need to do to arrive at completion.
Some Information about Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, US on 1897-July-24. Although her date of death is unknown, the date of her disappearance near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean is acknowledged to be 1937-July-2.
Amelia Earhart is best known as a record setting aviator and for attempting to circumnavigate the world in what turned out to be her final flight.
After leaving the pre-med program at Columbia University in 1920, she took her first ride in an airplane. She purchased her first airplane in 1921, a Kinner Airster. In 1923 she had earned her pilot's license. During the mid-1920s she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, US and became a social worker at Denison House where she assisted newly arrived immigrants.
On 1928-June-17 she flew across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger aboard a plane flown by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. When Amelia Earhart landed at Burry Port, Wales, UK on 1928-June-18, she had become an international celebrity. As a result of her newfound fame she wrote the book 20 Hrs. 40 Min. and took a lecture tour across the United States. George Palmer Putnam organized that historic flight, and he handled publicity for the tour. In 1931 Amelia Earhart married George Putnam, but she continued her aviator career under her maiden name.
To justify the fame she had received as a result of her 1928 trans-Atlantic flight, she flew across the Atlantic Ocean solo on 1932-May-20&21. Piloting a Lockheed Vega plane, she flew from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK in 14 hours 56 minutes.
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