learning
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Why Should I Read | Ego is the Enemy
Why would you pick this book off the shelves? This book gives practical applications to individuals interested in maintaining their success and avoiding failure due to ego.
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What is a Book? | The Inevitable
Country Rap is now a genre. If that isn’t proof the world is changing, I don’t know what is.
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Why Should I Read | The Richest Man in Babylon
If you’re like me, you too have tried to “get into” a finance course or personal finance book. You may be realizing, like I am as well, that a failure to learn good financial principles compounds throughout your life and that not knowing what you’re doing is an incredibly bad idea. Last week we talked…
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Why Should I Read | Switch
Our lives are designed to fit into narratives, and as human beings we recognize and connect to stories. You and I can use this to our advantage when we want to make change.
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Why Should I Read | Eat That Frog
“If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day. According to Brian Tracy, “eating frogs” is a fun way to refer to overcoming procrastination. There are 21 practices outlined in this book. All of…
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Why Should I Read | The Fifth Discipline
Have you ever been scalded in the shower? If you’re like me, you’ve pushed the handle all the way down to get the water to “heat up faster.” I tend to get impatient and hop in the shower while it is still freezing cold, which generally results in me pushing the handle even further towards…
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Chapters of Life
Reality. Sometimes it hits you. After 5 years, my time with TeenPact Leadership School has come to a close. If you look back on your life you can identify different turning points that changed things profoundly for you even if they didn’t seem so significant in the moment. When I packed up for a week…
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What are you doing with your Life?
What are you going to do? Where are you going to college? What kind of job are you going to have? What are you going to do with your life? If you’ve ever gotten sick of listening to people ask you these questions. You’re totally normal. Don’t worry, everyone ends up with these type of…
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Learning to be Heroes
You can define a society by the heroes it keeps. You can also define a person by the heroes he or she keeps. Who are your heroes? Who are you modeling yourself after? -Jeff Olson The Slight Edge As individuals strive to be what we are created to be there are different avenues to pursue.…
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WordPress on Words
Your Words set you apart. You have a power that goes beyond muscles, or intellect, or even your skills. The words that we say can build up, tear apart, enable others or hold someone back. Words come at us in all different styles. Writing, speaking, movies, music, school, all these things are based in different…
Jon DeLange 