Those Who Think They Failed

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Failure, the falling short of what is wanted or expected, is all too often seen as a final ending. In reality, failure is a collection of mistakes to first identify and then to learn from. Failure can be either what marks and defines your future or it can become a stepping stone to future success. What decides the direction failure will take?

The power of thought will determine the direction. People are made, or broken, according to the use they make of the power of thought. -- read more

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Posted on: It's About Motivation
One of the authors I spend time studying is Napoleon Hill. He was born into a dirt poor mountain family in the American south. Illiteracy and complacency compelled several generations of his family to poverty. Hill likely would have lived his life the same way had it not been for the arrival in his life of a step-mother who had no patience with poverty or illiteracy and had the will to speak up. -- read more

What Motivates You?

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Being three days before New Year 2008 it seems fitting that this is the first post to a new blog. This blog will be about motivation and its various aspects. What drives you? What stirs up motivation, passion, desire to succeed or to change in some way? Self understanding is often the first step towards changing, growing, evolving.

This is an appropriate year for me to start this blog. The year 2008 contains the birthday for me that marks my first half century of wandering around in this life. It seems to me that I need to turn it into the year when I decide what I want to do when I grow up and then seriously work in that direction.. -- read more