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“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

I’ve started, what has now become, a series about life lessons and what I’ve learned as a young adult in this fast pace, ever changing world we live in. The first post titled Keep Your Head Held High set the precedent for this so called “series” that I now refer to these posts as. I also posted Words of Encouragement: A Journey That Never Ends, which I received a lot of positive feedback …

To let you know how far I’ve come, let me tell you where I’ve been.

Not that long ago, there were nights I went to sleep in strange places praying I wouldn’t wake up. After another night of bad decisions, I’d lie down with my heart speeding inside my chest like it was about to burst through the skin. My thinking was clouded, and my talent was one day closer to being totally wasted.

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In my opinion, though in a time of sorrow and mourning, the eulogy Ted Kennedy gave for his brother Robert Kennedy’s memorial on June 8, 1968 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York is an all time great. Personally, I’d dub it the greatest speech of all time, but I haven’t listened to nor have I read many speeches to compare it with. I’ve been meaning to share this for a while now and it just so happened that I was going through some of my old audio files back from …

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There’s been a part of my sub-conscious lately that, for some odd reason, keeps letting doubt creep into my mind! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Let me repeat that just one more time. I hate it! Now that that’s out we’ll move on. Many of you have probably read some of my previous posts so I’m sure you’ve been able to make your own assessment of what kind of person I am (hopefully it’s good). For that reason I’ll save both …

I found this truly inspirational story, personal account, of Tom Godfrey’s miracle on a cancer forum. You might be wondering why I was reading a cancer forum and no, I don’t have cancer. The company I work for owns a cancer forum that I was looking at analytics for and got sidetracked reading some of the posts. I stumbled upon this story and thought I would share it with all of you. I’ll update this post with my thoughts later, but it really got me thinking about the way we …

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“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”

In my last post “Put Two Feet In” I mentioned that we must be quitters at quitting. I will stand by that statement and guard it with my life.
Take a second to reflect on the past. I’ve been doing quite a bit of soul searching and self-reflection lately and realized that I have quit …

A few years back I saw this quote in a magazine and have had it written down and saved on my computer ever since. I wanted to share it with my readers because over the years it has served me with great motivation and inspiration every time I read through it.
Too often we are scared.
Scared of what we might not be able to do.
Scared of what people might think if we tried.
We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes.
We say no when we want to say yes.
We …

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GoDaddy’s Founder and CEO Bob Parsons has a set of 16 rules he follows for success in business and life in general. They’re based off events and his personal experiences throughout life.
For those of you who don’t know what GoDaddy is here’s a little background. GoDaddy is a domain registrar and web hosting company. Today, GoDaddy is the largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet.
I stumbled upon Bob Parsons’ blog in 2006 when I was first trying to learn everything there was about the internet. …

When I woke up this morning I checked my emails in my bed with my iPhone (a habit that I’ve developed since getting one). Someone visited my site and used the contact page to send me an email. This morning was the first time, in a while, that I was able to start the day off with a smile on my face. I wanted to write a post about it because I tried emailing this person back, but received a delivery failure. Hopefully Sanath makes another visit and see this …