Had our final meeting with the bank and things seem OK. I guess we can do no more than wait for the wheels to turn now. A scary amount of money, but we are confident that the sums add up and it\u2019s \u2018affordable\u2019 \u2013 in the loosest of terms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an aside, but related to the objectives of our project, I had a discussion at work yesterday relating to the blast injuries being taken by servicemen in Afghanistan. The gist of it was that we\u2019d at least have a great Paralympic team come the 2012 Olympiad. Partly this view was driven by the recent BBC documentary \u2018Wounded\u2019 featuring a couple of soldiers, now finding themselves in recovery after multiple amputations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No doubt that a fighting spirit correlates with positive outcomes in adverse and novel situations, but it did get me thinking what did our discussion say about our views on those of us that have never had the experience of being fully able?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe I\u2019m being oversensitive or perhaps PC \u2013 but was there an inference that such fighting spirit is only evident following trauma? [Traumatic disability in this case] Do people only achieve if they have lost something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It doesn\u2019t fit does it? Dame Tanni Grey-Thomson anyone? She seems to have managed to achieve sporting success without the benefit of an insight into abled body-ness (if there is such a word). For that matter and rather obviously, Joe and Joanna Public also are known to do well on occasions too \u2013 with no disability whatsoever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what does motivate us? Is it what we have lost or is it what we might gain? The truth is both do. We fear and move away from loss and aspire and move towards the rewarding. But I suspect it is easier to attribute success to a discernible event (and there can\u2019t be too many things more \u2018obvious\u2019 than having your legs blown off by an improvised explosive device). At the other end of the scale we attribute success to people \u2018landing a plum job\u2019 or maybe \u2018winning the lottery\u2019. This is a shame as it suggests that we might have a behaviour tendency to sit idly by and wait for our own crisis or random good fortune before looking to do something \u2018exceptional\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think what our potential could be if we avoid this trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difference between people that \u2018do\u2019 and people that \u2018do not\u2019 bears a sharp correlation with people that succeed and people that \u2018just\u2019 live. (At the risk of sounding like an awful self help book \u2013 we make our own luck.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it\u2019s just that I need to justify to myself, that we are borrowing more than our first house cost us in order to realise our ambition\u2026. Still it\u2019s a point worth pondering n\u2019est pas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OEC have also emailed to say they are expecting a full order book. We\u2019ll need to move pretty fast if we are to avoid a greatly extended lead time (backed with a \u00a32k deposit), but we are hostage to getting approval from the bank. We can wait for sure as the trip is still years off, but VAT returns to 17.5% in Jan 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s hoping the next posts include firm progress once funding is tangibly in our hands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hopefully within the next month or so\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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