“Do not be limited by fear or narrow definitions, and don’t build walls around yourselves, but instead do your best to find kinship and beauty in unexpected places.” 
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

Deborah Micek is a co-founder of the international business coaching company RPM Success Group ® Inc. She and her partner John Paul are authors of […]

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“What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.”  
David S. Baxter

Deborah Micek is a co-founder of the […]

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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” 
Gail Devers

Deborah Micek is a co-founder of the international business coaching company RPM Success Group ® Inc. She and her partner John Paul are authors of the […]

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 Since this is Black History Month in the U.S., I wanted to post some quotes from African American optimal thinkers that we can all apply to our lives. 
 

 
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 
“In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it […]

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The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they began their journeys when they were none of these things.  Yet still they began their journeys.  Begin your journey, and if you have already begun, contiue on.  You are poised for greatness.  […]

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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.
 “A fight is going on inside me,” he says to the boy.  “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One is evil - he is anger, envy sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
 The other is […]

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A Creed to Live By
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
A Creed to Live By
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, Only you know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the […]

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“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service […]

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This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use it as I will.
I can waste it… or use it for good.
But what I do today is important,
because I am exchanging a day of my life for it!
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever,
leaving in its place something […]