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I LOVE movies about overcoming the odds. The old fashioned storyline of when someone tells you you can't do something, and through determination and perserverance, you prove them wrong and come out on top. There are always so many great analogies in these kind of movies for whatever challenge I'm facing in life, and they are always so inspiring to me. Even greater is when they are a true story like "Gracie," which was based on Elizabeth Shue's story (you know, the girl from Adventures in Babysitting) of being the first girl on an all boys soccer team. I was never into sports, but soccer was the one sport I ventured into in middle school for a few seasons before I realized I was a girly girl and had my mom sign me up for modeling classes instead. :-)

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I recently saw this movie with my mom, and there was one line that stuck out to me. As Gracie was moping about the schoolboard telling her she couldn't play on the boys team, her mom says "If you want to limit yourself, that's fine, but don't let other people do it for you." It was the key line in the movie that made Gracie rise to the occasion and really start to kick butt to prove to everyone that she was tough enough to compete with the boys.

I've been thinking tonight about some of the random things I would do if I knew I had no limits. A lot of these are far fetched, but as my poster said hanging in my room as that middle school little girl, "Before the reality comes the dream."

1. Write an inspirational book
2. Star in or direct a movie
3. Be on the cover of a magazine
4. Visit Paris, Italy, or Hawaii
5. Find a cure for cancer

Now I want to know, if you had no limits, what top 5 things would YOU do?