One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver …
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Perseverance is not an issue of talent. It is not an issue of time. It is about finishing. Talent provides hope for accomplishment, but perseverance guarantees it. Running Past Failure As a small child, Vonetta (Jeffrey) Flowers dreamed about being in the Olympics. She ran everywhere she went, and gained a reputation among her school …
When JK Rowling began to write her first novel, she was a single-mother pent up in a tiny flat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Struggling to make ends meet, she scraped by on a meager public welfare check provided by the state. In the solitude of her desperate situation, Rowling even contemplated suicide. Rowling’s saving grace and …
While reading a magazine at a dentist’s office in Paris, Philippe Petit became engrossed in an article about the Twin Towers in New York. As an 18-year old street performer, Petit was constantly on the lookout for venues for his high wire balancing acts. Studying an artist’s rendition of the World Trade Center, Petit came …
Discipline is one of your most powerful tools. Use it to your advantage. Discipline is nothing more than controlling your own behavior. And you’ve been doing that your whole life. You have the power to make your own choices and to follow those choices. So make those choices the ones that will raise your life …
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE’S SIGNIFICANT MOMENTSBy themselves, significant moments do not alter a person’s behavior. Events certainly can make powerful impressions on us: they stir our emotions, capture our imagination, provoke our conscience, or bring revelation. However, events do not automatically transform us, and the feelings they evoke usually are short-lived. Leadership breakthroughs happen …
“Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato Several experiences in the recent past have caused one lingering thought in me: Does your opinion count? It is startling to realise how much of our energies are expended on aspects of life on which we have …
We’ve all made mistakes. We’ve all done things that we’ve been ashamed of. Life is a learning experience, and mistakes are the most effective teachers. Living successfully is not about avoiding mistakes, it is about learning from them. Making a mistake once is, in the long run, a blessing for what it teaches. Making the …
Do what matters, not just what is convenient. Do what is fulfilling, not just what is easy.Just being busy will not lead you to anything of value. Instead, challenge yourself to be effective in the service of a meaningful purpose. Any particular stretch of your time can be infinitely valuable or it can be hopelessly …
Sometimes what you think will work great, doesn’t work at all. But that doesn’t mean that nothing will work.Sometimes you build your hopes up, only to be disappointed. But that doesn’t mean that your hopes have lost their value. On the contrary, your hopes and ideas have great value, even though they may expose you …