The Michaela Effect

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Pictures represent different things to different people.  Not everyone sees the same thing when presented with a photograph, picture, work of art, landscape or possibilities of a dream. Pictures depict life as we have known it, presently know it and as it can be known.  What you mentally picture for yourself has the power to [...]

Passion Into Action: Avoid Barriers That Can Hamper Your Success

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There are goals we all want to reach and get to in our lives that at times seem impossible to reach just looking at them from afar. The things that we want to achieve in life in the beginning sometimes just seem too big to ever get too! We want those higher education degrees, we [...]

What Break Dancing Taught Me About Success

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The year was 1984. The top movie in my life that year was Beat Street starring Rae Dawn Chong and Guy Davis. This movie represented a cultural shift of urban influence onto mainstream America. It pulled to the forefront as a relatively new style of music called rap or hip hop. Normally relegated to the [...]

Passion Into Action: Don’t Please People, PLEASE YOURSELF!

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I knew a young lady when I started my first job in higher education who seemed to never be able to move in the directions in life that she really wanted to go into. She had dreams, goals, and ambitions, but when she presented these ideas to her family, they always persuaded her to do [...]

Drawing Energy From The Madness

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Two-days after a hurtful relationship breakup my best friend got in her car and made a nearly 20-hour road trip by herself to, in her words, “Get a better perspective on her life.” Knowing some of the intimate details, I asked what had finally triggered the breakup and what was really behind the decision to [...]

Passion Into Action: The No Excuse Guide to Success

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We all get those hang-ups, those hick-ups, those accidents, those incidents, those situations that makes us just want to give up on pushing towards our dreams. Whether its money, family or friends situations, life happenings, even the unexpected, those moments come and pop up on our path towards success to us all at one time [...]

Learn To Treasure The Journey Of Life

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  It’s a fact that your life may not be what you had envisioned or hoped for, however, it’s time to make a concrete decision that you’re going to treasure the journey.  Along our journey we will are confronted with many situations, some are filled with joy, and some with heartache. How we react to [...]