Life 101 For the Young and Young at Heart! Book Excerpt

Written by Caren A. Adams


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Lesson 58. Category Goals Plan to do this. Success isrepparttar best revenge! Why should you do this? Torepparttar 122694 naysayer, to all those who said you wouldn’t amount to anything. To all those who treated you as if you wouldn’t amount to anything. To all those who acted as if you wouldn’t amount to anything. To those who acted as if they were better than you were. To those who thought they were better than you were. To those who mistreated you in anyway. To all those who boasted to you about themselves or their belongings. To all those who thought they were more beautiful or handsome than you were. To those who disrespected you in any form. To anyone who had an ounce of animosity towards you for no apparent reason. To those who gotrepparttar 122695 better of you on a day when you were down and out. To those who kicked you while you were down and out. To those who tried their hardest to make your life a living hell. To those who abused you in any form—SUCCEED! What happened? We have not reachedrepparttar 122696 pinnacle of success, but we are definitely on our way throughrepparttar 122697 goals we have established for ourselves, and continue to accomplish. In terms of education, family, friends and financial independence, we suppose, we have surpassed many ofrepparttar 122698 individuals we have hadrepparttar 122699 misfortune of meeting and who were previously mentioned. Intuition tells us this has created even more animosity towards us because we did not focus on them but onrepparttar 122700 goals and dreams, we have planned and have tediously pursued. The purpose of any naysayer, otherwise known as “dream busters,” is to takerepparttar 122701 spirit from those they encounter, and by not giving themrepparttar 122702 satisfaction, you are already ahead ofrepparttar 122703 game. How do you do this? Whatever goals you have for yourself complete them no matter how stellarrepparttar 122704 performance might be, ifrepparttar 122705 journey is onrepparttar 122706 road to success then do so, remembering that no dream is too big for reality. Take those steps in your life to enhance not only who you are as a person but also those around you. Whenrepparttar 122707 naysayer, hears of your success, he will have to, if only for a moment, reflect on how his behavior has had an impact on your life and who gotrepparttar 122708 better ofrepparttar 122709 experience. If success is not for you, then let it be for them—your motivation.

Caren A. Adams is a freelance writer and author of “Life 101 For the Young and Young at Heart!” ISBN 1-59457-835-4 (also in e-book format) at bookstores, www.booksurge.com and www.amazon.com mailto: amacapublishing@aol.com http://www.booksurge.com/product.php3?bookID=GPUB00869-00001


Broken Dishes and Barack

Written by Roger Wright


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Barack Obama's smile reflectedrepparttar other man's own and whilerepparttar 122693 applause got louder upstairs and turned into a stomping ofrepparttar 122694 feet that drummed intorepparttar 122695 very foundation ofrepparttar 122696 old political rooms so hard that evenrepparttar 122697 ghosts of all those old dealmakers kept watching. And what they saw was Barack Obama and Santiago Cruz picking uprepparttar 122698 pieces ofrepparttar 122699 shattered breakfast dishes untilrepparttar 122700 job was done. This Wednesday morning it looks as thoughrepparttar 122701 world might be looking at those of us inrepparttar 122702 United States with a head shaking bafflement. Just WHAT were these American’s THINKING! Or more precisely, just what were JUST under one half of them thinking. The story that came first onrepparttar 122703 radio was ofrepparttar 122704 Oklahoma senators who want to simply ban ALL abortions. Then they want to make sure that no one who is gay or an unwed mother be allowed to teach in a public school. That compassion stands missing fromrepparttar 122705 national ethic is a given. The forecast calls for a lot of broken dishes onrepparttar 122706 floor. But inrepparttar 122707 dark morning of such a demoralizing loss-here on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago--praying not for easy lives: but instead forrepparttar 122708 strength to meet what life brings: I found myself somehow in line for coffee and newspapers atrepparttar 122709 exact same time as Greg. Don't remember what we said. Really doesn't matter. What does matter is that there we both were, two guys fromrepparttar 122710 same church home--matter of factrepparttar 122711 same church home that was ALSOrepparttar 122712 SAME denomination of Barack Obama. . . . .there we were inrepparttar 122713 very same line atrepparttar 122714 very same time. Both of us in that line ready to help pick uprepparttar 122715 broken dishes. Very same line atrepparttar 122716 very same time. As if it was a message: that God is still speaking. Speaking. Speaking.



Roger Wright can be found on the salon.com blog CHURCH FOOD CHICAGO


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