“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” Florence Scovel Shinn I have been there. I was near something big that I didn’t even know was there. All I saw was failure. I saw that I [...]

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“Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.” ANON This rather poetic prayer shares with us that we [...]

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” The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Roosevelt made this speech to rally our country after it look like we faced defeat. How timely it was then, and how timely it is now. Fear is a [...]

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Perseverance is one of the top words that I have in my life survival kit. Marie Curie says it well: “Life is not easy of any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever [...]

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