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Walk Into Your Promise…..

When your destiny meets your promise - You Better Be Ready For It!

These quotes are from a remarkable man Douglas E. Luffborough, III….. He was a guest on this Saturday’s Discovery Mentorship call. An exclusive call for the members of Lifepath Unlimited.  The man is inspiring.  the man is encouraging.  If you think your life is rough and you are having a bad day or you haven’t attained the success you desire, then take a page out of Doug’s book and choose a new life.  What You Think You Are You Are.  If You Want To Be Someone Else… Then change Your “Look”

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Continue reading for another remarkable journey.  Ordinary, everday people who didn’t let anything get in their way.  You have that opportunity.  You can change your destiny….if that is what you truly desire…….

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His memories are so vivid that Willem can smell the pine trees, hear the birds and feel the soft earth beneath his feet. But it’s his father’s voice that captivates him. These were some of his most favorite times; walking with his father and listening to stories - stories that determined the course of his life.

Willem’s father was a physician and director of a sanatorium for tuberculosis in Holland. They would walk in the woods around the sanatorium as his father told stories of life and death. Because of them Willem decided as a young child that he wanted to be a doctor to help keep people alive.

But the road was not an easy one…

“What does this say?” he would silently scream. “All the letters are out of order and the words made no sense!”  Willem suffered with dyslexia, an unknown disorder in Holland in the early 1900’s. In those days Dutch students were required to take 6 years of Latin, 5 years of Greek and be fluent in four modern languages. And he was having so much trouble with just one!

He was driven by his dream and, encouraged by those who believed in him, he worked harder than anyone else to make the jumbled words make sense. People’s lives depended on his success in passing the courses to get through school.

And pass he did… he graduated and entered medical school at age 19 with the intention of practicing medicine.

But his plans changed when, as a student medical assistant he had to care for a 22-year-old who died a slow and terrible death from kidney failure. Willem had to tell the young man’s mother that her son was going to die and there was nothing they could do for him.  “…  I began to think, if I could just every day remove as much urea as this boy creates… then the boy could live.”

The idea of an artificial kidney was born.

In addition to kidney treatments, Willem also became interested in blood transfusions which were being done in Europe and the U.S. but not in the Netherlands. Most transfusions were done directly from the donor to the recipient, but Willem read about a blood bank in Chicago and learned how to store blood so it could be used without the donor being present. Willem was in Hague the day World War II broke out and headed for the city’s main hospital where he set up Holland’s first blood bank. That blood bank is still in existence.

It turned out to be just one more piece in the complex puzzle that would make his dream a reality… Working with blood outside the human body, put Willem’s desire to create an artificial kidney into serious motion.

Because the Nazis took over the major hospital where he was working, Willem left and found work at a small hospital in a neighboring town and began creating. Working with wooden drums, cellophane tubing and laundry tubs (sounds scary!) Willem created a machine that drew the toxic blood, cleansed it of impurities, and pumped it back into the patient – the first kidney dialysis machine had been created.

Willem also perfected the artificial kidney and began performing successful kidney transplants. In 1955 he decided to make a disposable artificial kidney. Because his idea was so new he couldn’t secure funding, so once again he used easily obtainable materials: a pressure cooker, coils of window screening, cellophane tubing and fruit juice cans! It worked. With some refinements it made artificial kidneys available worldwide.

Dr. Kolff is currently in the process of re-inventing the artificial heart, artificial arms, artificial eyes and ears (that actually allow the recipient to see and hear).  He is still working and at age 97 says, “I still have a wonderful life. To suddenly see that you can do something that was not done before! Also, when a new thought is born, in a meeting with young students and co-workers, that is fun.”

Willem Kolff lived through the difficulties of dyslexia, rejection of his medical ideas and inventions, Nazi occupation of his country, the scorn and ridicule of his colleagues, and the challenges of immigrating to a new country.

But through it all he kept his focus on what he knew he wanted and what he knew he could do even though others told him it was impossible.

Although they may seem overwhelming, don’t let your circumstances (or people’s opinions) dictate what you can or cannot do. Like Dr. Kolff and Doug. Luffborough,  you can rise above your situation if you will keep your eyes focused on your goal, and turn a deaf ear to your critics. You have the ability to fulfill your destiny because you do have what it takes and I believe in you.

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