Motivational speaker Aron Ralston tells the true story of his 127 Hours of survival

To Ralston, all decisions are worthy of consideration and planning. An engineer by training, his early hours while trapped were spent evaluating possible escape plans: a rope rig, a signal fire, digging through the boulder with a pocket knife. Although he tried to come up with different options, he knew early on how his 127-hour ordeal would end. “Aron, you’re gonna have to cut your arm off,” he told himself. Resistance to making difficult, limited choices is natural. Ralston talks about how to navigate it. He suggest his STOP method: Stop, Think, Observe the Options, Plan. Ralston asserts metaphorical “boulders” fall in everyone’s lives. What has you trapped and what would you sacrifice to escape? Ralston is a motivational speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller Between a Rock and a Hard Place, on which the film "127 Hours," starring James Franco, was based. (703) 516 - 4000