Karen Magill recounts waking in 2000 with one-sided paralysis, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and being forced onto disability from a Canadian government job, followed by bankruptcy and eventual reinvention as a published author and speaker. She identifies three mistakes people with disabilities make when pursuing goals — focusing on limitations, fearing to start, and going it alone.
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