I dare you to dream as we navigate these challenging times! For so many, with the holidays quickly approaching and the economy seemingly spiraling out of control. I dare you to dream!
“Many people dream of success. To me, success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection.  In fact, success represents the 1 percent of your work that results from the 99 percent that is called failure.”
  – Soichiro Honda
One of my students asked me about my blog today. The student wanted to know what I talk about on my blog with all of the turmoil going on with …read more

Here is something to think about:
Most people miss opportunities because they are usually dressed in overalls and look like work! – Abraham Cowley

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Words to Live By
An Excerpt from No Glass Ceiling, Just Blue Sky
By Marcy Blochowiak
Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you have only one life
And one chance to do all the things
You want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and
Enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily
Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of
Everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
Be based on a forgotten past;
You can’t go forward in …read more

“When a great wind blows, that which is rigid will snap and break. That which is flexible will bend. When the wind dies down and calm returns, the flexible will rise again.” – Unknown Author
What’s going on in your world? Personally and professionally? Are pressures so heavy in one world that they, the pressures impact the other? In the midst of the madness of your life, find a way to release the things that make you “right”. Some times we can be so right, we miss the opportunity to “extend grace” to another, thereby becoming rigid. We plant our feet …read more

There is nothing unrealistic about a dream that aligns with your purpose, ignites your passion, and inspires you to plan and persevere until you attain it. There is nothing unrealistic about the dream that aligns with your purpose.
- Cynthia Kersey

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B.C. Forbes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King
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“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
- George Eliot

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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
- David Sarnoff

A friend of mine sent this quote to me a few weeks ago and it stopped me in my tracks. It has taken me this long to share it with you. I welcome your thoughts.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
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