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Don't Get Stuck In The Past

A story is told of how one man remained stuck in a past he found too painful to move on from.... here's the story as narrated by my favorite motivational speaker, Les Brown. There was one particular person that all of us knew. The children and adults and everybody used to pick at him when he came…
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It's Not Their Opinion That Matters; It's Yours

When I was young, over Christmas holidays my cousins and I would be taken to the village by our parents to spend the holidays with our grandparents. We would spend lots of time engaging ourselves with farm-related activities such as coffee picking (my favorite activity at the farm), drawing water…
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No Elevation Without Examination

In exactly 4 weeks, I will be doing some CATS (continuous assessment tests). Yes in case you are wondering, I am back in school and will be for quite a while. These will be my first CATS since I went back to being a scholar and I can’t help being apprehensive about them. The best I can do is…
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In Challenges There’s Change

It is as simple as the title reads. There is no challenge that was ever accepted that never brought change to the challengee (is there such a word?). According to one version of the English dictionary, the word challenge has been defined as, "the situation of being faced with something that…
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Fear Quote 4

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less...” ~ Marie Curie
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Fear Quote 6

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there..." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Fear Quote 5

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.." ~ Aristotle
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Fear Quote 3

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear...” ~ Nelson Mandela
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Fear Quote 2

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They are there to let you know that something is worth it...” ~ C. JoyBell C.
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Toothless Bulldog

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen; either there will be something solid for you to stand upon, or you will be taught to fly" Well, those are the words of Patrick Overton…
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  The last few weeks have been… a lot.  I’ve been on the road and in the sky—between cities, between countries—juggling assignments, battling changing weather conditions that swung between 11°C and 25°C, and trying to keep up with it all.… more

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Author of The Routeen: A Winning Routine For Teens & Young Adults

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