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Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
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John C. Maxwell (The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential)
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How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.
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Jennifer Elisabeth (Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl)
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To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Watchwords)
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If you can dream it up, you can team it up.
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Richie Norton
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If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
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Germany Kent
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
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Germany Kent
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At some point in their lives, each one of us requires mentoring, guidance and counsel to get better clarity on our vision, passions, goals, and life in general.
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Prem Jagyasi
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If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
“
We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Lyor Cohen, who I consider my mentor, once told me something that he was told by a rabbi about the eight degrees of giving in Judaism. The seventh degree is giving anonymously, so you don't know who you're giving to, and the person on the receiving end doesn't know who gave. The value of that is that the person receiving doesn't have to feel some kind of obligation to the giver and the person giving isn't doing it with an ulterior motive. It's a way of putting the giver and receiver on the same level. It's a tough ideal to reach out for, but it does take away some of the patronizing and showboating that can go on with philanthropy in a capitalist system. The highest level of giving, the eight, is giving in a way that makes the receiver self-sufficient.
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Jay-Z (Decoded)
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Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibility is miraculous.
Miraculous is divine.
Divine is supernatural.
Supernatural is spiritual.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.
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Robert A. Caro (Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3))
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Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.
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Leonard Sax (Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences)
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I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs.
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Unarine Ramaru
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Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.
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Chris Jirika
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Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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MENTOR signifies:
M = Motivator
E = Empowers
N = Nurture
T = Teacher
O = Originator
R = Role model
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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...dream BIG like a child!
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers)
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Mentoring is motivated by love.
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J.A. Perez
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Do all the work you while you still have strength.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.
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Tim Gunn (Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!)
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Some women think being arrogant, selfish, bitter and looking down on others are qualities of being an Independent, strong, powerful and successful business women. No matter how high you are in life. Never look down on others and never forget humanity.
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D.J. Kyos
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Your children learn what's important, by what you give your attention to.
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J.S. Felts (Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire)
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Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".
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Michaelson Williams
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It is important for coaches to mentor young people toward those things that are most important in life and aid them in creating their own order of priorities to live by.
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George M. Gilbert (Team Of One: We Believe)
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We have to become vast, only then we can succeed;but we confine our thinking ability most of the times
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Rajasaraswathii (Success-Talks : For Evolution of Your Success)
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Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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If you can dream it up. You can team it up.
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Richie Norton
“
Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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Every great soul had a great mentor.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Self-discovery is life recovery.
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Self-awareness— understanding our own motivations, our strengths and challenges—is the key to getting ready to mentor.
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Lisa Fain (The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships)
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Leaders are farmers; they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Ladder)
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Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E-A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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Keep on exploring.
Keep on evolving.
Keep on experimenting.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Find mentors to help you out. Always be on the lookout for friendly allies, willing to help and support you. Be willing to help others out too, when asked. What goes around, comes around.
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Mark F. LaMoure
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So I looked with fascination at those people in their mobes, and tried to fathom what it would be like. Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them. People who couldn't live without story had been driven into the concents or into jobs like Yul's. All others had to look somewhere outside of work for a feeling that they were part of a story, which I guessed was why Sæculars were so concerned with sports, and with religion. How else could you see yourself as part of an adventure? Something with a beginning, middle, and end in which you played a significant part? We avout had it ready-made because we were a part of this project of learning new things. Even if it didn't always move fast enough for people like Jesry, it did move. You could tell where you were and what you were doing in that story. Yul got all of this for free by living his stories from day to day, and the only drawback was that the world held his stories to be of small account. Perhaps that was why he felt such a compulsion to tell them, not just about his own exploits in the wilderness, but those of his mentors.
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Neal Stephenson (Anathem)
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There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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If you wish to be a great teacher, be a great student first.
If you wish to be a great leader, be a great follower first.
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Hrishikesh Agnihotri
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An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I am only uncomfortable when I find myself comfortable. I literally hate comfort. It is where all dreams go to die.
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Vic Stah Milien
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With great inspiration, every man can reach their highest potential.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You are destiny to be;
Rebuilder of great home.
Restorer of mighty nation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Activate your energy,discover your sucess inside you "
(C)(P) Succenergy by Tãnia Tomé
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Tânia Tomé
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Don't believe the naysayers. They need you to be small, so they have an excuse not to lift. Watch the people who are getting on with it. They don't critique. They act.
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Sharon Pearson
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When you are placed in a position of leadership. The position is about you, but is about empowering and helping others.Is not only about making money, but is about making a difference.
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D.J. Kyos
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A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well. When a seed comes into contact with a leader, fruits are produced.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Ladder)
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If you don't already have a mentor, go out and find one. If you can't get someone to help you in person, begin the process by reading books. That's where I got started. The main thing is to get the process under way.
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John C. Maxwell (The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow)
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I remain convinced to this day that compassion like that—sincerely caring for your players and maintaining an active interest in their lives, concerns, and motivations—is one of the most important qualities a coach can have.
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John Wooden (A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring)
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1. Humans were weakest when they believed someone protected them CHAP18, PG200
2.No matter how good a mentor, a person who wasn't determined couldn't survive in this world CHAP 20:EP 5, PG 223
3. The treasure trove doesn't just contain treasures. CHAP 22 PG 235
4. The person trying to be all alone was the busiest. CH 36 PG 409
5. You have already forgotten the determination of your first attempt." CH 41 , PG 486
6. "If you can't find the meaning of life in front of you, didn't you decide to live for the greater cause? CH 41, PG 486
7. "Human beings aren't slaves of desire. They are animals fighting their desires." CH 137 PG 1595
8. It isn't important to read the letters. The important thing is where the
letters lead you. Pg 1963 ch170
9. At first, I only saw the main character's position. The second reading
showed the position of the supporting character and the third reading
showed the position of the enemy.
The story changed every time I read it. Pg 1964
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singNsong (OMNISCIENT READER'S VIEWPOINT (light novel vol2))
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Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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That's something for me to consider. So what else can you tempt me with?"
Breckenridge hid a wry smile; he'd guessed that, in common with her female Cynster mentors, she'd be drawn to the prospect of managing a large household and the estate's people. Organizing ran in the blood. "I believe I mentioned that I'm under sisterly edict to marry. Unsurprisingly, a large and pertinent motive behind my sisters' prodding is the desirability of me begetting an heir, or more, thus securing the succession. Perish the thought the estate might ever revert to the Crown, so you could view your pole as my future countess as in part holding the ton line against King George and his cronies."
She narrowed her eyes on his. That's the most inventive way I've ever heard of saying you want children."
His lips curved, then he let the expression fade. "I do-but do you?"
She looked forward. "Yes, of course." After a moment she added, "I can't imagine not wanting children, truth be told."
"Well, then we're in agreement on that."
"Don't get carried away-you haven't yet convinced me we should wed.
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Stephanie Laurens (Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue (Cynster, #16; The Cynster Sisters Trilogy, #1))
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Richard Alexander, an evolutionary biologist known for his work on the origins of morality, describes an argument he had with his mentor. Alexander was trying to make a case for pure moral motivations, and he described how he went out of his way to avoid stepping on a line of ants. Isn’t that truly altruistic? And his mentor responded: “It might have been, until you bragged about it.
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Paul Bloom (Psych: The Story of the Human Mind)
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Encouragement during the early years is crucial because beginners are still figuring out whether they want to commit or cut bait. Accordingly, Bloom and his research team found that the best mentors at this stage were especially warm ans supportive: 'perhaps the major quality of these teachers was that they made the initial learning very pleasant and rewarding. much of the introduction to the field was as playful activity, and the learning at the beginning of this stage was like a game'.
A degree of autonomy during the early years is also important. Longitudinal studies tracking learners confirm that overbearing parents and teachers erode intrinsic motivation. Kids whose parents let them make their own choices about what they like are more likely to develop interests later identified as a passion.
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Angela Duckworth (Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)
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You are the TEACHER. Some people are so stuck on what you did in the past, that they don't realize that you forgave yourself, matured, and graduated from what happened.
Yet here they are stuck on that memory..wondering how you were able to move on. Time waits for no one and life keeps going.
When haters try to remind you of your past, starve their attention with silence..Just realize that you don't have time to supervise adults. You got things to do and individuals to mentor.
What was designed to crush you just strengthened your walk, put confidence in your talk, and encouraged you to be content with You.
Their presence or opinion is only entertainment in the bleachers, tolerated decorations on the wall, and the uncelebrated clown at your events.
Remember you are the teacher and they are the student...take charge of your classroom!!
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Kendricks Fields (The Table Between Us)
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But primarily, the evolution of management is stewardship. A steward takes her responsibilities to guide, coach, mentor, and lead her team with awareness of how her presence helps and hinders. A steward doesn’t manage. She inspires. She motivates. She inquires. She notices. She supports. She partners. Supervisor Larry Robillard of Zingerman’s explained that his role is to facilitate greatness in his people through his actions and words.4 This isn’t an arrogant statement. It’s delivered with genuine care for people.
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Shawn Murphy (The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone)
“
Finding the right mentor is not always easy. But we can locate role models in a more accessible place: the stories of great originals throughout history. Human rights advocate Malala Yousafzai was moved by reading biographies of Meena, an activist for equality in Afghanistan, and of Martin Luther King, Jr. King was inspired by Gandhi as was Nelson Mandela.
In some cases, fictional characters can be even better role models. Growing up, many originals find their first heroes in their most beloved novels where protagonists exercise their creativity in pursuit of unique accomplishments. When asked to name their favorite books, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel each chose “Lord of the Rings“, the epic tale of a hobbit’s adventures to destroy a dangerous ring of power. Sheryl Sandberg and Jeff Bezos both pointed to “A Wrinkle in Time“ in which a young girl learns to bend the laws of physics and travels through time. Mark Zuckerberg was partial to “Enders Game“ where it’s up to a group of kids to save the planet from an alien attack. Jack Ma named his favorite childhood book as “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves“, about a woodcutter who takes the initiative to change his own fate.
… There are studies showing that when children’s stories emphasize original achievements, the next generation innovates more.…
Unlike biographies, in fictional stories characters can perform actions that have never been accomplished before, making the impossible seem possible. The inventors of the modern submarine and helicopters were transfixed by Jules Vern’s visions in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “The Clippership of the Clouds”. One of the earliest rockets was built by a scientist who drew his motivation from an H.G. Wells novel. Some of the earliest mobile phones, tablets, GPS navigators, portable digital storage desks, and multimedia players were designed by people who watched “Star Trek” characters using similar devices. As we encounter these images of originality in history and fiction, the logic of consequence fades away we no longer worry as much about what will happen if we fail…
Instead of causing us to rebel because traditional avenues are closed, the protagonist in our favorite stories may inspire originality by opening our minds to unconventional paths.
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Adam M. Grant (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World)
“
Looking back on all my interviews for this book, how many times in how many different contexts did I hear about the vital importance of having a caring adult or mentor in every young person’s life? How many times did I hear about the value of having a coach—whether you are applying for a job for the first time at Walmart or running Walmart? How many times did I hear people stressing the importance of self-motivation and practice and taking ownership of your own career or education as the real differentiators for success? How interesting was it to learn that the highest-paying jobs in the future will be stempathy jobs—jobs that combine strong science and technology skills with the ability to empathize with another human being? How ironic was it to learn that something as simple as a chicken coop or the basic planting of trees and gardens could be the most important thing we do to stabilize parts of the World of Disorder? Who ever would have thought it would become a national security and personal security imperative for all of us to scale the Golden Rule further and wider than ever? And who can deny that when individuals get so super-empowered and interdependent at the same time, it becomes more vital than ever to be able to look into the face of your neighbor or the stranger or the refugee or the migrant and see in that person a brother or sister? Who can ignore the fact that the key to Tunisia’s success in the Arab Spring was that it had a little bit more “civil society” than any other Arab country—not cell phones or Facebook friends? How many times and in how many different contexts did people mention to me the word “trust” between two human beings as the true enabler of all good things? And whoever thought that the key to building a healthy community would be a dining room table? That’s why I wasn’t surprised that when I asked Surgeon General Murthy what was the biggest disease in America today, without hesitation he answered: “It’s not cancer. It’s not heart disease. It’s isolation. It is the pronounced isolation that so many people are experiencing that is the great pathology of our lives today.” How ironic. We are the most technologically connected generation in human history—and yet more people feel more isolated than ever. This only reinforces Murthy’s earlier point—that the connections that matter most, and are in most short supply today, are the human-to-human ones.
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Thomas L. Friedman (Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations)
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1. Connect with Your Why Start by identifying your key motivations. Why do you want to reach your goal in the first place? Why is it important personally? Get a notebook or pad of paper and list all the key motivations. But don’t just list them, prioritize them. You want the best reasons at the top of your list. Finally, connect with these motivations both intellectually and emotionally. 2. Master Your Motivation There are four key ways to stay motivated as you reach for your goals: Identify your reward and begin to anticipate it. Eventually, the task itself can become its own reward this way. Recognize that installing a new habit will probably take longer than a few weeks. It might even take five or six months. Set your expectations accordingly. Gamify the process with a habit app or calendar chain. As Dan Sullivan taught me, measure the gains, not the gap. Recognize the value of incremental wins. 3. Build Your Team It’s almost always easier to reach a goal if you have friends on the journey. Intentional relationships provide four ingredients essential for success: learning, encouragement, accountability, and competition. There are at least seven kinds of intentional relationships that can help you grow and reach your goals: ‣ Online communities ‣ Running and exercise groups ‣ Masterminds ‣ Coaching and mentoring circles ‣ Reading and study groups ‣ Accountability groups ‣ Close friendships If you can’t find a group you need, don’t wait. Start your own.
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Michael Hyatt (Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals)
“
All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exactly an evil will, but a selfish will. The people who’d made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day’s end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them. People who couldn’t live without story had been driven into the concents or into jobs like Yul’s. All others had to look somewhere outside of work for a feeling that they were part of a story, which I guessed was why Sæculars were so concerned with sports, and with religion. How else could you see yourself as part of an adventure? Something with a beginning, middle, and end in which you played a significant part? We avout had it ready-made because we were a part of this project of learning new things. Even if it didn’t always move fast enough for people like Jesry, it did move. You could tell where you were and what you were doing in that story. Yul got all of this for free by living his stories from day to day, and the only drawback was that the world held his stories to be of small account. Perhaps that was why he felt such a compulsion to tell them, not just about his own exploits in the wilderness, but those of his mentors.
”
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Neal Stephenson (Anathem)
“
I met with a group of a hundred or so fifth graders from a poor neighborhood at a school in Houston, Texas. Most of them were on a track that would never get them to college. So I decided then and there to make a contract with them. I would pay for their four-year college education if they kept a B average and stayed out of trouble. I made it clear that with focus, anyone could be above average, and I would provide mentoring support to them. I had a couple of key criteria: They had to stay out of jail. They couldn't get pregnant before graduating high school. Most importantly, they needed to contribute 20 hours of service per year to some organization in their community. Why did I add this? College is wonderful, but what was even more important to me was to teach them they had something to give, not just something to get in life. I had no idea how I was going to pay for it in the long run, but I was completely committed, and I signed a legally binding contract requiring me to deliver the funds. It's funny how motivating it can be when you have no choice but to move forward. I always say, if you want to take the island, you have to burn your boats! So I signed those contracts. Twenty-three of those kids worked with me from the fifth grade all the way to college. Several went on to graduate school, including law school! I call them my champions. Today they are social workers, business owners, and parents. Just a few years ago, we had a reunion, and I got to hear the magnificent stories of how early-in-life giving to others had become a lifelong pattern. How it caused them to believe they had real worth in life. How it gave them such joy to give, and how many of them now are teaching this to their own children.
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Tony Robbins (Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom)
“
See especially academia, which has effectively become a hope labor industrial complex. Within that system, tenured professors—ostensibly proof positive that you can, indeed, think about your subject of choice for the rest of your life, complete with job security, if you just work hard enough—encourage their most motivated students to apply for grad school. The grad schools depend on money from full-pay students and/or cheap labor from those students, so they accept far more master’s students than there are spots in PhD programs, and far more PhD students than there are tenure-track positions. Through it all, grad students are told that work will, in essence, save them: If they publish more, if they go to more conferences to present their work, if they get a book contract before graduating, their chances on the job market will go up. For a very limited few, this proves true. But it is no guarantee—and with ever-diminished funding for public universities, many students take on the costs of conference travel themselves (often through student loans), scrambling to make ends meet over the summer while they apply for the already-scarce number of academic jobs available, many of them in remote locations, with little promise of long-term stability. Some academics exhaust their hope labor supply during grad school. For others, it takes years on the market, often while adjuncting for little pay in demeaning and demanding work conditions, before the dream starts to splinter. But the system itself is set up to feed itself as long as possible. Most humanities PhD programs still offer little or nothing in terms of training for jobs outside of academia, creating a sort of mandatory tunnel from grad school to tenure-track aspirant. In the humanities, especially, to obtain a PhD—to become a doctor in your field of knowledge—is to adopt the refrain “I don’t have any marketable skills.” Many academics have no choice but to keep teaching—the only thing they feel equipped to do—even without fair pay or job security. Academic institutions are incentivized to keep adjuncts “doing what they love”—but there’s additional pressure from peers and mentors who’ve become deeply invested in the continued viability of the institution. Many senior academics with little experience of the realities of the contemporary market explicitly and implicitly advise their students that the only good job is a tenure-track academic job. When I failed to get an academic job in 2011, I felt soft but unsubtle dismay from various professors upon telling them that I had chosen to take a high school teaching job to make ends meet. It
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Anne Helen Petersen (Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation – A Cultural Critique of Capitalism, Debt, Hustle Culture, and Exhaustion)
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Sharon passed around a handout: "Triangle of Self-Actualization" by Abraham Maslow. The levels of human motivation. It resembled the nutrition triangle put out by the FDA, with five horizontal levels of multiple colors. I vaguely remembered it from my one college psychology course in the 1970's.
"Very applicable with refugees," Sharon said. "Maslow theorized that one could not move to a higher level until the prior level was satisfied. The first level, the triangle base, is physiological needs. Like food and water. Until a person has enough to eat and drink, that's all one would be concerned with."
I'd never experienced not being able to satisfy my thirst or hunger, but it sounded logical that that would be my only concern in such a situation. For the Lost Boys, just getting enough food and water had been a daily struggle. I wondered what kind of impact being stuck at the bottom level for the last fourteen years would have on a person, especially a child and teen.
"The second level is safety and security. Home. A sanctuary. A safe place."
Like not being shot at or having lions attack you. They hadn't had much of level two, either. Even Kakuma hadn't been safe. A refugee camp couldn't feel like home.
"The third level is social. A sense of belonging."
Since they'd been together, they must have felt like they belonged, but perhaps not on a larger scale, having been displaced from home and living in someone else's country.
"Once a person has food, shelter, family and friends, they can advance to the fourth level, which is ego. Self-esteem."
I'd never thought of those things occurring sequentially, but rather simultaneously, as they did in my life. If I understood correctly, working on their self-esteem had not been a large concern to them, if one at all. That was bound to affect them eventually. In what way remained to be seen. They'd been so preoccupied with survival that issues of self-worth might overwhelm them at first. A sure risk for insecurity and depression.
The information was fascinating and insightful, although worrisome in terms of Benson, Lino, and Alepho. It also made me wonder about us middle-and upper-class Americans. We seldom worried about food, except for eating too much, and that was not what Maslow had been referring to. Most of us had homes and safety and friends and family. That could mean we were entirely focused on that fourth level: ego. Our efforts to make ourselves seem strong, smart, rich, and beautiful, or young were our own kind of survival skill. Perhaps advancing directly to the fourth level, when the mind was originally engineered for the challenges of basic survival, was why Prozac and Zoloft, both antidepressants, were two of the biggest-selling drugs in America.
"The pinnacle of the triangle," Sharon said, "is the fifth level. Self-actualization. A strong and deeply felt belief that as a person one has value in the world. Contentment with who one is rather than what one has. Secure in ones beliefs. Not needing ego boosts from external factors. Having that sense of well-being that does not depend on the approval of others is commonly called happiness."
Happiness, hard to define, yet obvious when present. Most of us struggled our entire lives to achieve it, perhaps what had brought some of us to a mentoring class that night.
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Judy A. Bernstein (Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights)
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Books are the hidden treasures and mentors of our life.
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Venu CV (Master Your Skills To Succeed)
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The external teacher figure in Tibetan Buddhism is considered more of a friend than a mentor. Your esoteric teacher, by contrast, is one you imagine and visualize to be indivisible from the Buddha himself, someone who is a living exemplar of enlightenment. You use your mental power of imagination to propel you toward the enlightened state, to mobilize you to become like your teacher. This altered focus makes the teaching more accessible and immediate. It gives you a personal guide from the outset, a companion on the path but one who is always ahead of you, motivating you. The mentor figure empowers you, not just to play at self-transformation but actually to realize the teaching, to experience the higher goal state. Thus, „mentor devotion“ is a practice of acknowledging or worshiping the Buddha in a model figure of your choice. (p. 9)
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Robert A.F. Thurman (The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism)
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I want the humans on Earth to meet with Me regularly. I want them to see My face and hear My voice. I need them to know that I am here for them, with them and that I support and love them.
I take my role as Friend, Advisor and Mentor very seriously!"
- God
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Sunshine Rodgers (The Creation Project)
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Our goal as motivational speakers is not to change everyone, but to change those that are ready for change.
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Wilbert Wynnberg
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Ten best quotes of the book, “Miracles Through My Eyes”
"Miracles Through My Eyes " by Dinesh Sahay Author- Mentor
{This book was published on 23rd October in 2019)
1. “God is always there to fulfil each demand, prayer or wish provided you have intent; unshaken trust in Him, determination and action on the ground, and when this entire manifest in one’s life, then it becomes a miracle of life. Nothing moves without His grace. It comes when you are on the right path without selfish motives but will never happen when done for selfish and destructive motives”.
2. “All diseases are self-creation and they come due to some cause and it transforms into a disease by virtue of wrong thinking, wrong actions which are against nature, the universe and God. When you disobey the rules set by God. All misfortunes, accidents, deceases, and even death are the creation of negative, bad thoughts, spoken words and actions of man himself, at some stage of his life. All good events in life are also the creation of man through his good and positive thoughts at various stages of his life”.
3. “The biggest investments lie not in the savings and creation of wealth with selfish motives. Though you may find success this prosperity shall not be long lasting and at a later stage, the money and wealth may be lost slowly in many unfortunate ways”.
4. “If you want to have a successful life with ease and at the same time want abundance and wealth then my friend, you must care for others. You must start your all efforts to help by means of tithing, charity, service to mankind in any form, and help poor, helpless, needy and underprivileged.”
5. “The largest investment for a person (which is time tested by many rich personalities) shall be to give 10% of your monthly income for the charitable cause each month if you are a salaried class, and if you are a businessman or a company, then you must contribute 10% annually for charitable cause”.
6. “Nature is giving signals to the mankind that they are moving near to destruction of this earth as it’s a cause and effect of man-made destruction of earth and with all sins, hate, untruthfulness and violence it carried throughout the centuries and acted against the principals of the universe and nature. Those connected to the divine may escape from the clutches of death and destruction of the earth. We have witnessed many major catastrophes in the form of Tsunami’s, earthquakes, Tornado’s, Global warming and volcanic eruptions and the world is moving towards it further major happenings in times to come”.
7. “Let us pray for peace and harmony for all humanity and make this world a better place to live by our actions of love, compassion, truthfulness, non-violence, end of terrorism and peace on earth with no wars with any country. Let there will be single governance in the world, the governance of one religion, the religion of love, peace, prosperity and healthy living to all”.
8.” Forgive all the people who often unreasonable, self-centred or accuse you of selfish and forget the all that is said about you. It is your own inner reflection which you see in the outer world.
9. “Thought has a tremendous vibratory force which moves with limitless speed and, makes all creations in man’s life. Each thought vibrates to the frequency with which it was created by a person, whether that was good or bad, travels accordingly through the conscious and subconscious mind in space and the universe. It vibrates with time and energy to produces manifestation in the spiritual and materialistic world of man or woman or matter (thing), in form of events, happenings and creativity”.
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Dinesh Sahay
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No one motivates like a mentor.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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A mentor motivates you to aim for your best.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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The best mentors are in real business, and resources are available to anyone open to seeing, feeling, understanding, and focusing. Entrepreneurship is a powerful vision and is a force for positive change.
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Francesco Vitali (Message for success)
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Books are the silent but eloquent mentors, holding the power to ignite minds, kindle passions, and shape destinies.
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Aloo Denish Obiero
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Who Were the Sutas The narrator of the Mahābhārata as we know it is Rishi Ugrashravā Sauti. He was the son of Rishi Lomaharshan and belonged to the Suta community. Hence, the appellation ‘Sauti’. The community was considered a ‘mixed jāti’8 of offsprings of a Brāhmin mother and Kshatriya father. Sutas were considered expert sārthis9. The role of the charioteer was significant in ancient India. Charioteers were usually those who were close friends and confidants of the person they worked with. Their role became even more important in a war. They were to not just steer the chariot but also ensure the warrior they were driving stayed safe and motivated. They acted as guides in the war. The importance of a charioteer becomes evident from the fact that Arjuna asked Krishna to be his charioteer. To match Krishna, Karna asked Shalya, the old king of Madra, to drive his chariot. In addition, Sutas were engaged as storytellers, history keepers and ministers in royal courts. Many were also warriors and commanders. Famous Sutas in the Mahābhārata are: 1. Sanjay, the narrator of the Bhagavad Gitā and the Kurukshetra war to Dhritarāshtra. He played the role of charioteer, friend, trusted messenger and mentor to Dhritarāshtra. 2. Sudeshnā, the queen of King Virāta of Matsya desh, Uttarā’s mother and Abhimanyu’s mother-in-law. She was the maternal grandmother of Parikshita. 3. Keechak, the commander of King Virāta of Matsya desh. He was the brother of Sudeshnā and amongst the most powerful men in Matsya. 4. Karna, though born to Kunti, was raised in a Suta family of Adhiratha and Rādhā. He married women from the Suta community and his children were brought up as Sutas. Duryodhana crowned him the King of Anga desh. A great warrior, considered equal to Arjuna in archery, he was the commander of the Kaurava army after the death of Dronāchārya. Not only Karna but the sons of his foster parents were also trained warriors. They had participated in the Mahābhārata war on the side of the Kauravas. 5. Rishi Bandi, a great sage whose story is narrated in the Vana Parva of the Mahābhārata. In the Rāmāyana, one of the closest confidants and an important minister of King Dashratha of Ayodhyā is Sumantra, who belonged to the Suta community.
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Ami Ganatra (Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History)
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Agency is the motivational aspect of hope. It is often associated with cheerleaders, close friends, or mentors in our lives that spur us on to pursue our goals. Agency is a complex term used to describe your ability to dedicate mental energy (willpower) to begin and sustain the journey toward your goals.
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Casey Gwinn (Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life)
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Dr. Trent Lovette is a retired superintendent, but that doesn't mean he isn't working. He's taken his leadership experience and interpersonal skills to the field of leadership coaching, mentoring, and motivational speaking as John Maxwell and Gallup CliftonStrengths Global coach. Additionally, Dr. Trent Lovette has joined together with a business partner to enter the real estate business with Summit Investment Properties.
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Dr Trent Lovette
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VIOLATION SERIOUSNESS SENTENCE PRINCIPAL’S COMMENTS Third Update: According to a report from Elwin, Mr. Sencen was involved in the recent destruction in the Healing Center—but apparently it happened during a skill lesson that went awry. For that reason, I’m simply noting the incident here, rather than creating a disciplinary report. It should also be noted that Mr. Sencen brought Miss Foster to the Mentors’ private cafeteria for butterblasts. —Magnate Leto VIOLATION SERIOUSNESS SENTENCE PRINCIPAL’S COMMENTS DISRUPTING LUNCHTIME According to a report from Lady Galvin, a number of prodigies began emitting unpleasant gaseous noises midway through the lunch break and had to race to various bathrooms. No proof has been recovered, but the general consensus is that Mr. Sencen slipped Gurgle Gut into their lunches. 5 out of 10 One week of detention assigned. As far as I can surmise, every prodigy affected by Mr. Sencen’s prank had recently been gossiping about (or hassling) Mr. and Miss Vacker about their eldest brother—which is why I’m limiting his detention to a week. I cannot allow such behavior to go unpunished. But I refuse to deny the motivation. —Magnate Leto Update: Foxfire has been placed on an extended hiatus after the traumatic events during the Celestial Festival. Sessions will resume as soon as the Council determines that it is safe to do so. —Magnate Leto
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Shannon Messenger (Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5))
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The past is a mentor, not a captor.
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Aloo Denish Obiero
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What to Do Tonight Support autonomy, support autonomy, support autonomy. Explore where your child’s true inner motivation lies. You can do this by asking when in life he or she feels “really happy.” Kids with a healthy self-drive will commonly think of times when they perform well in school or in sports, are engaged in pleasurable pastimes, or do something fun with their friends or family. In contrast, kids who are obsessively motivated or have difficulty sustaining motivation and effort will often say that they feel happiest when they have no responsibilities, when nothing is expected of them, and when they feel no pressure. Make a point of speaking with your kids about what it is they want in life. What do they love to do? What do they feel they’re good at? If there’s a reason they’re here, what might that be? Help your child articulate (and write down) goals. We will explore this in more depth in Chapter Ten. For now, simply the act of voicing where she wants to get is a remarkably constructive step. Encourage flow in any activity by giving your kids the space and time they need to do what they love. Teach and model a love of challenge and persistence in the face of difficulty. Attribute positive motivational qualities to young kids (e.g., “I’ve noticed that you don’t give up on things.”). Teach your kids not to be overly preoccupied with pleasing others. If they’re focused on external feedback, consider occasionally saying something like, “Everybody feels good when they’re successful at things and get positive feedback from other people. It’s completely normal. My experience, though, is that the wisest thing is to evaluate your own performance and to focus on getting better at doing the right thing.” If your child doesn’t seem to have a passion, remember that there are many people and experiences that will positively influence their lives. Seek out mentors or role models in different fields, and expose them to a range of careers and life choices.
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William Stixrud (The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives)
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Dr. Mayo echoed precisely that point, saying: “It means delegating, entrusting, giving up a degree of ownership and control—it’s tough to do, you have to work on your own ego—it’s not ‘my event’ anymore.” Her mentors advised the flattening of the organization and sharing of responsibilities, she recalls, “so as to improve teamwork and motivation.” She noted that “There are now five people ready to take my position—there are shared decisions and attention. That is because we let others feel they could make a decision.” This is good because Dr. Mayo said she is in “a process of detachment” and now is “looking for ways to make it [CASP] truly self-sustainable financially.
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Adam J. Sulkowski (Extreme Entrepreneurship: Inspiring Life and Business Lessons from Entrepreneurs and Startups around the World)
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Ralph Brown coached high school football at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, California. He is an accomplished football player who has won various championships and awards. He proudly served as a sports broadcaster for Fox Sports West Prenzone for 3 years, and he was a sports analyst for the ABC affiliate in Lincoln Nebraska, covering Husker Football. Ralph currently serves as a mentor and motivational speaker to young athletes.
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Ralph Brown (Making Business Writing Happen: A Simple and Effective Guide to Writing Well (Making It Happen series))
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Mistakes are the best mentor.
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Marion Bekoe (I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.)
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If you believe you can, then you will.
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José Ferreira (A Positive mind will make you Succeed: I am proof of that - Coach Ferreira (Teaching, Coaching, Mentoring Positivity Book 1))
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In order for kids to reach their full potential, they must first believe they have potential.
They must believe that they matter and that they have the power to choose a beautiful life story. They must feel empowered to discover and use their unique skills, interests, ideas, perspectives and ways of showing up in the world to embody the best possible version of themself and create the best possible life for themself. They must be taught that every great leader, activist and change-maker started as a kid who chose to take action to change the world.
It is imperative that teachers, parents, role models and mentors tell and show kids over and over again that they are valuable and important, that they matter, and that have the power to choose. They have the power to choose to embody the best version of themself. They have the power to choose to make life better for the people and world around them. They have the power to choose the legacy they leave behind. Whoever they want to be and however they want to be remembered, they have the power to choose that.
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Lauren Martin (Insecurity is a Seed (Emotion Series))
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There is a reason why the waiting game won't serve your career. The truth is, not everyone at your company will have your best interests at heart, and not everyone will want you to get ahead. This could be for any number of reasons - they may see you as competition, they may mentor someone at your level who they want to help excel, they may simply not like you. Who knows their motivations, and frankly, who cares?
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Lauren Wesley Wilson (What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success)
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There was a man who was greatly motivated by Edison who used to believe that one should sleep only when they are dead. True to his philosophy, this motivated guy died as a result falling asleep at the steering wheel”- Sir Anubhav Srivastava (Mentor of Sir Thomas Edison)
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Anubhav Srivastava (UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life (The Zeromniverse Archives Book 1))
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Good mentors and coaches will help you reach your destination faster than you can by yourself.
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Mensah Oteh (Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused)
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Looking back on all my interviews for this book, how many times in how many different contexts did I hear about the vital importance of having a caring adult or mentor in every young person’s life? How many times did I hear about the value of having a coach—whether you are applying for a job for the first time at Walmart or running Walmart? How many times did I hear people stressing the importance of self-motivation and practice and taking ownership of your own career or education as the real differentiators for success? How interesting was it to learn that the highest-paying jobs in the future will be stempathy jobs—jobs that combine strong science and technology skills with the ability to empathize with another human being? How
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Thomas L. Friedman (Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations)
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If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? A single bottom line of profit motive no longer serves our interdependent world. We must move from a focus on shareholders to one on stakeholders, take a long-term view, and measure what matters, not just what we can count. That’s a lot easier to say than to do. So we created a manifesto at Acumen, a moral compass to guide our decisions and actions. It is an aspirational document, one I think about daily, though I don’t always live up to it. It is long for a billboard, but maybe if we put it in the right place and encouraged people to pause for just a moment, which in itself wouldn’t be so bad. Here it is: It starts by standing with the poor, listening to voices unheard, and recognizing potential where others see despair. It demands investing as a means, not an end, daring to go where markets have failed and aid has fallen short. It makes capital work for us, not control us. It thrives on moral imagination: the humility to see the world as it is, and the audacity to imagine the world as it could be. It’s having the ambition to learn at the edge, the wisdom to admit failure, and the courage to start again. It requires patience and kindness, resilience and grit: a hard-edged hope. It’s leadership that rejects complacency, breaks through bureaucracy, and challenges corruption. Doing what’s right, not what’s easy. It’s the radical idea of creating hope in a cynical world. Changing the way the world tackles poverty and building a world based on dignity. Or else, I might borrow Rilke’s gorgeous mantra to “Live the Questions,” which is a simple reminder to have the moral courage to live in the gray, sit with uncertainty but not in a passive way. Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers. . . . What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? Don’t worry all that much about your first job. Just start, and let the work teach you. With every step, you will discover more about who you want to be and what you want to do. If you wait for the perfect and keep all of your options open, you might end up with nothing but options. So start.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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Finally, I dedicate this book to God, my Creator. May the life You created and gave me have a positive impact on the world. May this book help motivate, inspire, and influence people to attain their Greatest Achievement—to have happiness and help others.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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With an objective eye, take an inventory of your successes and enlist the honest feedback of a trusted and respected mentor or peer. Chances are they see you in a better light than you see yourself!
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #1))
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To cultivate bravery and courage, interview brave people and learn their secrets.
Whom do you know that displays courage and confidence? Ask them for their best practices, mimic their actions, follow their steps, utilize their methods. Ask if they will mentor you.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #4))
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To position yourself as an expert, learn everything you can about a subject. Develop your knowledge: read books, attend classes, listen to your market, get training, attend seminars, find a mentor, join a mastermind group of like-minded individuals, watch videos, and study.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #2))
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For pretty much my whole life, I thought I was living to better myself, to create the best life possible. About a year ago, that mindset changed. I now believe I’m here to create the best world possible. This shift from me to everyone is what altered my entire understanding of passion, and my purpose. Ben Horowitz is one of my digital mentors (meaning I follow his blog). I find him very insightful. Whenever he says (or writes about) anything, I inevitably start nodding my head until my neck is sore. Here’s an excerpt from the commencement speech he gave at Columbia, his alma mater: “Following your passion is a very me centered view of the world, and as you go through life, what you’ll find is that what you take out of the world over time—be it…money, cars, stuff, accolades—is much less important than what you put into the world. And so my recommendation would be to follow your contribution. Find the thing that you’re great at, put that into the world, contribute to others, help the world be better. That is the thing to follow." Most of the time, if you follow your contribution, it’s either already a passion, or likely to become one. Doing something you’re good at is intoxicating, as is contributing to the world. Writing and launching The Connection Algorithm was a full year of hard work. It was the result of countless hours of reflection, deeply philosophical thinking, and brutal honesty. Throughout the entire process, I felt driven, passionate, and motivated. At first, I thought this was because I was doing it on my own. But I’ve come to realize it was something else—something far more profound. Shortly after the book was released, I began receiving emails from people who had read the book and been deeply impacted by it. A highschooler in Miami. An entrepreneur in Amsterdam. A small business owner in the midwest. People were also leaving reviews on Amazon—people I didn’t know, saying the book helped them live a better life. And on my Kindle, I could see passages that people were highlighting. People weren’t just reading my book, they were taking notes on useful things to remember. The craft of writing has been unbelievably fulfilling for me. And so I’m continuing the pursuit. My motivation is no longer to make a buck, or “win at life.” Rather, I’m working to improve the world. I think of myself as an inventor, creating a new piece of art for the world to discover. When you make the world better, you get rewarded. So find your craft, and then determine the best contribution you can make with it.
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Jesse Tevelow (Hustle: The Life Changing Effects of Constant Motion)
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Anyone can be a mentor, Eli. Anyone who brings hope or motivates us. Anyone who helps us become us.
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Yessi Smith (Quietly Making Noise (Wanderlust #1))
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There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration. This success might be mea sured in material gain or far-reaching influence, or in lives touched and relationships fostered. These mentors can offer a model for good business, ethical practices, and effective work habits, and they often provide the motivation we need to seize whatever opportunities come our way.
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John Wooden (A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring)
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In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation.
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Adam M. Grant (Give and Take: From the author of million-copy bestseller THINK AGAIN)
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YOUR LIFE IS A GAME, YOU ARE THE PLAYER, SOCIETY IS YOUR AUDIENCE. USE YOUR MENTOR AS YOUR COACH, FOLLOW YOUR RELIGION AS YOUR GUIDANCE, MAKE USE OF OPPORTUNITIES TO LIVE YOUR LIFE AND INSPIRE THE FUTURE. YOU ARE THE WINNER, YOU ARE THE STAR AND YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR OWN DESTINY.
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Mayooran Senthilmani
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Premack [a motivational system where a more-preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity] or a rewards system, but with
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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A great mentor works on your character to be as strong as iron.
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JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
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There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that of the religious faculty. Its fancies explain for him the world about him, its fears are his hourly master, its hopes his constant Mentor, its feasts are his calendar, and its outward usages are to a large extent the education and the motive toward the gradual evolution of art, literature and science.
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James Henry Breasted (A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest)
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When you give a presentation, play the role of mentor, not the role of hero. The audience is the hero. Motivation
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Neal Ford (Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations)
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Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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He then told me, “I’m going to give you a chance. … I’m going to let you go, but I want to see you make an effort to change your life around. Next time I catch you, I will make sure to lock you up.” This last chance, combined with the multiple opportunities offered by my teachers and mentors, motivated me to begin the transformation process.
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Victor Rios (Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7))
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We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Project-based homeschooling is concerned with the underlying motives, habits, and attitudes of thinking and learning. However you feel about knowledge and skills — whether you’re a Latin-loving classicist or a relaxed unschooler or somewhere in-between — the point of project-based homeschooling is to devote some time to helping your child direct and manage his own learning. This does not have to comprise your entire curriculum. (Though it can.) It does not have to be the primary focus of your learning life. (Though it can be.) But it is essential. It is the part of your child’s education that is focused on that underlying machinery. It is the part of your child’s learning life that is focused on your child’s very specific and unique interests, talents, and passions. It is the part of your child’s learning when he is not only free to explore whatever interests him, but he receives attention, support, and consistent, dependable mentoring to help him succeed.
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Lori McWilliam Pickert (Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners)
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A force in your life, whether it be God, a friend, a mentor, or a higher being, is always there for you. Remember that when you are down, and focus on your appreciation. It will deliver but you need to recognize and acknowledge.
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David Mezzapelle (Contagious Optimism: Uplifting Stories and Motivational Advice for Positive Forward Thinking)
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Without continuous encouragement, we may give up.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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In applying the lean approach for the first time, project managers should remember that “it is not the strength of waves that shapes the rocks, but it is their persistence.” Thus, instead of giving up early, they should continuously motivate their teams to apply lean principles and techniques to their projects by managing any kind of internal resistance. End
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Emrah Yayici (LEAN Business Analysis Mentor Book : With Lean Product Development Techniques to Achieve Innovation and Faster Time to Market)
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In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation. The
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Adam M. Grant (Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success)
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People with great attitudes are the encouragers, the motivators, and the folks everyone wishes they were. When a person with a great attitude enters a room, everyone knows they have arrived. The atmosphere of the room suddenly changes. They are the game-changers and mentors. Individuals with great attitudes cultivate their best strengths and extract the best from others. These upbeat folks help others see their own potential. This is the person God wants you to become.
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Mark R. Lile (Leaving a Legacy: Ten Life Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Sooner)
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Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” Desire is a driver, a motivator. In fact, a sincere and uncompromising desire, placed above everything else, is nearly always fulfilled.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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Feel the feeling not felt before, express and allow it to come forth when dance is your mentor.
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Shah Asad Rizvi
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Have a mentor, but choose carefully. You want to learn from a professional, not a con artist. Once you find this kind of salesperson, ask her to take you on as an apprentice/ understudy. Make a lunch date, and ask what are the techniques that work best. Even if this super salesperson isn’t in your particular field, her knowledge would surely transfer to your line of work. WEEK 7 LEADERSHIP | FRIDAY Very few companies have meaningful evaluation systems in place.
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Lillian Hayes Martin (The Business Devotional: 365 Inspirational Thoughts on Management, Leadership & Motivation)
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If you do not have a great support system, be your own mentor.
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Amara Leggett (The Strategic Mind of A Young Legend: A College Graduate at 16 Changes The World One Word At A Time)
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I think the summation of Coach Vigil is that he is a coaches' coach, and there are very few of those in this business. The ultimate compliment that any coach has is that you have a go-to person -- and we call those mentors. But then you have a person like Coach Vigil, who is a step ahead of the vast majority of coaches in the United States.
-- Lance Harter, head coach, University of Arkansas women's cross country and track and field
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Pat Melgares (Chasing Excellence: The Remarkable Life and Inspiring Vigilosophy of Coach Joe I. Vigil)
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Aside from FAMILY, there is nothing more important in this world than Self-Education. You too can unmasks the #1 truth about Personal Development; ANYONE can Develop a Genius Mindset and Unleash Their Full Potential and Achieve Unimaginable Success. -J.R. Fitzgerald
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J.R. Fitzgerald
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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R.W. Roth (Mindset Mentors: 240 of the Best Mentors Ever and Their Most Motivational Quotes)
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You will go through tough times, it’s about getting through them.
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R.W. Roth (Mindset Mentors: 240 of the Best Mentors Ever and Their Most Motivational Quotes)
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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R.W. Roth (Mindset Mentors: 240 of the Best Mentors Ever and Their Most Motivational Quotes)
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You control your future based upon the choices you make today.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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Unknowing refers to the moments when "diligent catechesis is not required and a "leisurely pause before mystery is."27 Uncaring refers to the detachment of heart and spirit when the mentor gets out of the way and allows the Holy Spirit to do the caring. As Peterson points out, "There are moments when caring is not required, when detachment is appropriate. What the Spirit is doing in other persons far exceeds what we ourselves are doing."28
Such wisdom is certainly hard to acquire through formal education in the Western world. We are taught to know, and we are motivated to care. Such activities animate us and validate us in the work of ministry for others. The wisdom of Peterson's experience is the paradox of knowing and caring enough not to interfere. Ordination or a degree is not a prerequisite for such skills.
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Keith R. Anderson (Spiritual Mentoring: A Guide for Seeking & Giving Direction)
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The motivational sage: This mentor will rarely tell you what to do. Instead, they’re going to ask you questions that help you bring out the truth you already know. I love when you get a good mentor of this type, but they are so, so, so rare.
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Rachel Pedersen (Unfiltered: Proven Strategies to Start and Grow Your Business by Not Following the Rules)
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Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
Desire is a driver, a motivator. In fact, a sincere and uncompromising desire, placed above everything else, is nearly always fulfilled. But every judgment, every preference, every setback spawns its own desire and soon we drown in them. Each one a problem to be solved, and we suffer until it’s fulfilled.
Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment. No desires running amok. It’s okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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It is not the cards you are dealt in life that matters–it is how you play your hand.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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The exact moment today ends, tomorrow begins.
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Ken Poirot (Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement)
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Know who is your competitor and who is your mentor. Most people fail because they get confused about who is who and they end up getting nowhere.
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Ritu Negi
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Even if you have the best mentors, you still have to go out and do the work. No one can do life on your behalf.
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Gift Gugu Mona (The Extensive Philosophy of Life: Daily Quotes)
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Bring the thunder. Some situations require extra inspiration and motivation to influence others; during those moments, act with fierce bravado.
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Jim Knight (Leadership That Rocks)
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Some of us are at war everyday. Trying to convince other people not to do stupid things, that may results to danger, harm or death.
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D.J. Kyos
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Go so fast you leave fear behind
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Vic Stah Milien
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I didn’t think my own chart was weird, but in January, I showed it to my team, thinking they’d find it really inspiring and motivating. But people respond to mortality in very different ways. It was the worst meeting I’ve ever run. I don’t think they knew what I was trying to convey. Some people see that as, “Hey, every year is really exciting and valuable,” and some people react with, “Oh wow, I’m gonna die.” It didn’t go over well, so I don’t share that chart anymore. Experiment failed.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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I don’t get burnout or need work/life balance because I am living the out the life I dreamed. I am never tired, bored, or lost. This comes from being very specific about what you want and writing it down every day. I can work extremely long hours day after day and all I want to do is work more, because it is after all, exactly what I want.
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Vic Stah Milien
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I would rather fail than regret!
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Vic Stah Milien
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When you don't have a mentor you suffer in the hands of tormentors.
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Chidiebere Orji Agbugba
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I am Aakruthi Singh, an IT certification enthusiast and mentor committed to guiding professionals toward success through targeted exam preparation with nwexam.com.
As someone deeply immersed in the IT certification landscape, I’ve navigated a wide range of certifications across vendors like Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and more. My mission is to simplify the certification journey by offering practical insights, proven study strategies, and high-quality resources.
Through nwexam.com, I help learners access trusted practice exams and up-to-date preparation materials to build confidence and pass their certification tests on the first attempt. Whether you're aiming for CCNA, NSE, Palo Alto, Avaya, or other professional credentials, I'm here to share my knowledge, motivate your learning, and celebrate your wins.
Let’s connect, collaborate, and succeed in the ever-evolving world of IT certifications!
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Aakruthi
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Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.
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Gwen Ro
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I will ignore those who ridicule me.
I will ignore those who undermine me.
I will ignore those who undervalue me.
I will ignore those who envy me.
I will ignore those who disparage me.
I will ignore those who betray me.
I will ignore those who wrong me.
I will embrace those who mentor me.
I will embrace those who support me.
I will embrace those who celebrate me.
I will embrace those who improve me.
I will embrace those who inspire me.
I will embrace those who motivate me.
I will embrace those who love me.
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Matshona Dhiliwayo
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Great souls encouraged us to be great.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Guru with Guitar)
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Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
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David Brooks
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No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Your business and finance mentor helping you achieve success with business, finance, and real estate solutions.
Small business startup, small business funding, real estate investment.
Dare to think and act differently from the majority and you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.
Join me on my journey to achieve success and let me help begin your journey.
By sharing my experience, allow me to motivate you to understand there are other options available and you don't have to do what everyone else is doing.
By sharing my tips, let me guide you down the road less traveled where opportunities are abundant.
You can follow your dreams and you can make them come true!
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Dwayne Graves
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Thinking about my grandparents and my parents. My aunts, uncles, cousins, coaches, mentors and teachers. Everyone who had a hand in teaching me, hewing me, shaping me and empowering me, and I am overwhelmed by the knowledge that, I am the very reason, they ever existed at all.
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Mekael Shane
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If you need a motivational speech to keep you going, then do not pursue entrepreneurship.If you are bootstrapping, it is very normal that you may not have a guide or a mentor in thebeginning. If you need someone to motivate you, I might suggest that you are in the wrong business.
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Somdip Dey
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Sabrina says, “In your essays, explaining why something is important to you is often more important than what you actually did and how you did it because the “why” reveals more about your values, beliefs, character, or motivations. Write reflectively about what matters to you. Allocate lots of time for brainstorming, drafting, and revising dozens of long and short personal essays (plus short-takes), and your résumé. Without devoting sufficient time to these tasks, your essays will not be of high quality and you will regret it. Ask for input from friends, teachers, mentors, and parents (but remember to keep your authentic ‘voice’ intact)! You will learn a lot about yourself and maybe even
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Jason L. Ma (Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers)
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Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Step-by-step instructions to do anything your mind can conjure up is readily available. Platforms like Kickstarter, Google, Siri, Youtube and Alexa have made budgets, mentors, classes, and even institutional education no longer necessities for success.
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david castain
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Educators are instrumental mentors molding the elite leaders of tomorrow.
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Wayne Chirisa
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When you create enriched environments of positive stress and high demand, your motivation to succeed is sky-high without any conscious effort on your part. You are not in conflict with your environment but being pulled forward by it. The specific strategies detailed in this chapter for outsourcing your motivation to enriched environments included: Installing several layers of external pressure and accountability; Making your goals public; Setting high expectations for customers and fans; Investing up front on your projects and scheduling them in advance; Surrounding yourself with people who have higher personal standards than you have; Competing with people who have a much higher skill level than you do by viewing competition as a form of collaboration; Making a commitment and then practicing or performing these in public settings. The external pressure of performing for others only heightens your internal pressure to succeed; Getting enough clarity to move forward a few steps toward your goal; Hiring a mentor who is world-class at what you want to do; and Joining a mastermind group filled with role models and people who will help you elevate your life.
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Benjamin P. Hardy (Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success)
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Science isn’t about being right preemptively or knowing the answer. Science is motivated by the human drive to struggle to discover.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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Decide Your Mentor As Soon As Possible, It will Helps to Become a Mentor for Others.
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Digamber Sharma
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The shortest path to achievement, is to
find someone already there
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George Choy (RETIRE NOW! Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom Through Property)
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The Best Advisor is Self-Talk!
The Greatest Mentor is Self-Enquiry!
The Strongest Motivator is Self-Belief!
Surprisingly all are free!
&
Available all the Time!
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Venu CV
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The great Masters are great Mentors
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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We are what our great Mentors have taught us.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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The whole concept of what a good life ought to look like also changed with the secular revolution. A good life used to mean a life of suffering. Why? Because nearly everyone was suffering so much from lack of decent food, shelter, medicine, and leisure time that the best way to prevent panic was to assert that "your suffering is good for you." So Jesus became a suffering role model. Buddhism cultivated meditative techniques as an escape from worldly suffering. And African American slaves sang of the redemption their protracted pain would bring them in the next life.
But the Enlightenment propagated a new (to most people), Humanistic view of a good life. This new view was made possible by new science and technology that made commerce, communication, and existence in general easier. It was motivated by horror at the centuries of religiously inspired mass murder that had terrorized Europe. It was influenced by Epicurus and Lucretius as well as the Roman Cicero and other early human-centered thinkers. And it was expressed in manifold ways by brilliant writers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and others whose work is now considered among the foundation stones of contemporary Humanist philosophy. But our view was first "canonized" in the Declaration of Independence,most likely by Thomas Jefferson: that all people are equally deserving of an opportunity to pursue happiness and to be free of suffering in this life (rather than be redeemed by it in the next life). My late mentor Sherwin Wine used to say that he knew that his mother had a pre-secular revolution mind-set because she didn't understand how to be "happy." Suffering, she could take. But happiness? Oy! What is there to be so happy about - the world is a mess!
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Greg Epstein
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I am a mentor for the young kids in school. I am a Hero for them. I mentor them, and I teach them how to be a Man. I will fight anyone who stands against my kids. I won't let you and your groupism win. I will fight you, who stands against me or my students. And I will Win!
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Avijeet Das
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I am a mentor for the young kids in school. I am a Hero for them. I mentor them, and I teach them how to be a Man. I will fight anyone who stands against my kids. I won't let you and your groupism win. I will fight you, who stands against me or my students. And I will Win
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Avijeet Das
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I am a mentor for the young kids in school. I am a Hero for them. I mentor them, and I teach them how to be a Man. I will fight anyone who stands against my kids. I won't let you and your groupism win. I will fight you, who stands against me or my students. And I win Win!
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Avijeet Das
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Having a Heart to Serve // SCRIPTURE Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, in thirst . . .(Deuteronomy 28:47–48) // OBSERVATION God doesn’t want us just to serve Him, does He? No, it’s the motives behind my serving that catch His attention.
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Wayne Cordeiro (The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior)
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When you tap into your inner strength and dare to challenge your limits, you gain the ability to take control of your life in a truly empowering way. This entails acknowledging and embracing your own capabilities, pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, and discovering the immense heights you can reach. By making choices that prioritize your security, purpose, and overall well-being, you not only secure a better future for yourself but also nurture the most essential aspects of who you are. This may involve actively seeking opportunities for personal growth, such as pursuing further education or honing new skills. It could also mean surrounding yourself with a supportive network of friends and mentors who constantly motivate and uplift you. Remember, it's perfectly fine to prioritize yourself; you deserve to flourish. By putting your own needs and aspirations first, you have the power to create a life that is both fulfilling and meaningful, while also positively influencing those around you. Embrace the incredible power that lies within you and embrace the boundless possibilities that await you in the future.
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Michella Augusta
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But no one will come and save you. No one will take your hand and guide you to a better life. You must create it yourself. You must collect your mentors, dead or alive, and you must accumulate wisdom and knowledge, visions and goals.
You must decide what you want with your life. You must decide who you are trying to be.
This was the year I learned to no longer depend on other people to get by, nor be stubbornly independent without any help from anyone or anything.
This was the year I instead learned to say: you can depend on me. I will be your stability, you can always count on me.
I said it to myself and to others, over and over until I believed it myself, and I made a promise to always know that I can count on myself to simply make things work.
and i will stand like a lighthouse in the storm and repeat over and over
you can depend on me.
This was the year I stopped begging for things to happen, and instead made them happen myself. This was the year I stopped living my life according to someone else’s needs, and instead explored my own.
This was the year I learned to stop begging people to love me. If someone wants to go, let them go. This was the year I learned that every person who shows up in your life is there to teach you a lesson, and they will stay until you have learned what you need to learn. Then they will leave. If you want them to or not, and you must let them. And this was the year I learned that you must dare to leave something or someone completely, leaving that space empty and aching, in order to open up space for something new. And you must know that there is a new lesson and a new person, in a new place with a new life waiting for you.
and this was the year I learned that what’s coming is always better, than what has been.
Don’t hold on to things that are over. Let them go, bravely.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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As the earth yearns for rain, so does our clime yearns for MEGA leaders
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Amos Olusegun Ologunleko (Leadership GOT BORN: A practical toolkit for aspiring leaders and mentors)
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Mistakes taught me what a mentor could have. It slowed me down, but I arrived. Find a mentor.
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Marion Bekoe
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I attract brilliant mentors who graciously share their wisdom and guidance.2
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R.M. Winters (10,000+ Positive Affirmations: Affirmations for Health, Success, Wealth, Love, Happiness, Fitness, Weight Loss, Self Esteem, Confidence, Sleep, Healing, Abundance, Motivational Quotes, and Much More!)
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Mistakes became my mentor. They slowed me, but they still moved me forward.
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Marion Bekoe
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Absurdism is unreasonably effective because it apparently has very little to do with any setting in particular, but still (I claim) ends up useful in practice in lots of settings. This is especially noticeable to me when I am at a loss for what to do. Take depression, for example. I find that my depression is usually born from intentions that I have, but for some reason cannot (or do not, perhaps for lack of motivation) bear them out. And when I’m struggling in the absurd, I do my best to give up. I often decide to do something, or a whole pile of somethings, then beat myself up for not doing it. It turns out that I often beat myself up to the point of depression for not doing it. I get depressed just because I am not doing what I think I
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Transformative Wisdom From Icons and Innovators to Help You Navigate Life's Challenges)
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Our mentors motivates us to do more.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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There's no mentoring like motivation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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A mentor motivates.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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There is no motivation like mentoring.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you
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Sunday Adelaja
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I’ve never been one to trade my authenticity for acceptance or applause.
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Samson J. DeSessa (Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book)
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You can’t half-ass train and then expect to perform like an Olympian when it matters.
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Samson J. DeSessa
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You matter. Everything you say matters. Everything you do matters. We need you, and no one else can be you…
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Samson J. DeSessa (Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book)
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You're always just a hair's breadth from success. Opportunities disguised as challenges. Keep going to live the life of your dreams!
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Valerie Dwyer (You've Got This! No Matter What!: 6 Steps to Reinvent Your Life!)
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Thinking differently isn’t about rebellion, it’s about responsibility.
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Samson J. DeSessa (Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book)