Jon Morrow: Chair wheels won,t stop him
This is what you should know about Jon Morrow. By most standards, going to work at
the office — which also doubles as your residential 8th floor balcony overlooking the
ocean in coastal Mexico — is pretty badass. But what makes it even more remarkable is
knowing how Jon Morrow arrived there in the first place. Jon was born with Spinal
Muscular Atrophy, a degenerative neuromuscular disease that progressively weakens the
body to the point of complete atrophy, and eventual death. For most families, it would be
an excuse to throw in the towel and give in before ever giving life a shot. Not for the
Morrows. “I was really lucky to have two incredible parents,” Jon says. “It’s one of the
reasons why I’ve survived this disease. But it’s also one of the reasons I’m able to do
these things.” Those things that he refers to are accomplishments that most able-bodied
people would not believe possible even for themselves, much less for someone unable to
move from the neck down. Things like graduating high school at 16, starting three
businesses by 18, graduating college magna cum laude with a 3.9 GPA by 21, and buying
and selling millions of dollars in luxury real estate at 22 without ever being able to see
the inside of a single property. Having left real estate behind, today Jon Morrow goes to
work in that beachside “office” as Associate Editor of Copyblogger.com, is a creator of a
guest blogging course, and licensed his Partnering Profits course to Lateral Action. The
key to success for him, he says, and anyone else for that matter, is discovering what’s
really important to you, deciding that you’re willing to pay the price, and then fighting
for your ideas. Anything else is living a life of disability. “I would rather die doing what I
want to do then die in a nursing home bed somewhere watching TV for 15 hours a day
surrounded by other people waiting to die,” he says. “To me that is the scariest thing
imaginable.” You read it that from a chair wheel, he can make millions of dollars. I think
we should try to achieve what Jon Morrow did. It is a good lesson
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