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Continue reading →: Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Have you ever had the first glimmer of an idea? One that would be considered “half-baked”? In the course of that idea, something deep within gives you cause to contemplate the possibilities…
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Continue reading →: Your smile is your logo. Your personality is your business card. How you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.Your smile is your logo. Your personality is your business card. How you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark. MAYA ANGELOU First impressions last forever. Even if they are corrected over time, the first impression is genuinely what it is. Do you have a…
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Continue reading →: I am not a liberal snowflake. My feelings aren’t fragile. My heart isn’t bleeding. I am a badass believer in human rights. My toughness is in tenderness. My strength is in the service of others. There is nothing more fierce, more formidable, than unconditional love. There is not a thing more courageous than compassion. But if my belief in equity, empathy, goodness, and love indeed makes me or people like me snowflakes, then you should know, Winter is coming.I am not a liberal snowflake. My feelings aren’t fragile. My heart isn’t bleeding. I am a badass believer in human rights. My toughness is in tenderness. My strength is in the service of others. There is nothing more fierce, more formidable, than unconditional love. There is not a thing…
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Continue reading →: One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen. ROBIN S. SHARMA I enjoyed this aphorism because it pointed out to me one of my core Achilles heels…. Patience. One of the great joys…
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Continue reading →: At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude. We live in a society that bifurcates the herd in many ways. As a herd animal, humans want (by definition) to be in the herd. We are not desirous…
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Continue reading →: Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in. AIMEE MULLINS Do you know how many ideas an individual has had that has been summarily dismissed by a spouse, lover, parent, friend, or colleague? More…
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Continue reading →: When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in that walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to your garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in reading your financial statement? Or course not. What will matter most then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn’t they matter now?When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in that walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to your garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in reading your financial statement? Or…
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Continue reading →: I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. Sidney Poitier THEY CALL ME MR. TIBBS. Perhaps one of the greatest lines in all cinema history,…
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Continue reading →: The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you see their flaws. That’s just the way it is.The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. That is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way that they act…
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Continue reading →: Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it is when we start understanding small things.Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it is when we start understanding small things. As we start making our way through school, many topics cross our paths and leave us in a continual state of awareness and potential excitement about some of the ones that are most…
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