AND YET ANOTHER REASON TO EXERCISE
It makes you a better leader:
"Want a business reason to turn off the computer, leave the office and hit the gym? How about news that regular exercise could make you a better leader?  A study from the Center for Creative Leadership found that executives who exercise are significantly more effective leaders than those who don't.  Using data from CEOs and other top executives collected over a span of 10 years, we compared two groups: those who were regular exercisers and those who were non-exercisers or sporadic exercisers. We cross-referenced the exercise status with "360-degree" assessment tools in which the individual executive is rated by colleagues on various leadership attributes.  We found that the exercisers rated significantly higher than their non-exercising peers on overall leadership effectiveness. They also scored higher on specific traits including: inspiring commitment, credibility, leading others, leading by example, energy, resilience and calmness"

And make no mistake, those of us with Moebius Syndrome CAN be leaders.  Yes, we look different.  Yes, it can be hard to overcome the shyness that naturally comes from that.  But the truth is that once people get used to you, they forget that you look different.  They will accept you as you.  And they can and will respond to your talents and thoughts.  I've seen it.  Believe it...

"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor."
-John Milton

MOEBIUS SYNDROME IN HISTORY
Did you know that the first use of a voice synthesizer for phone calls involved someone with Moebius Syndrome?  It's true:
"The Artificial Language Laboratory is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first use of a speech prosthesis in history: the use by a man with a communication disorder to order a pizza over the telephone using a voice synthesizer. This high-tech sociolinguistic experiment was conducted at the Lab on the evening of December 4, 1974. Donald Sherman, who has Moebius Syndrome and had never ordered a pizza over the phone before, used a system designed by John Eulenberg and JJ Jackson incorporating a Votrax voice synthesizer, a product of the Federal Screw Works Co. of Troy, Michigan. The event was covered at the time by the local East Lansing cable news reporter and by a reporter from the State News."