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Quoting Gina "Mom (your grandma) used to say, 'The quickest way to end a long journey is to take the first step.'"

Great advice

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I'm in graduate school right now and every once in awhile I come across a quote that I would like to remember.

The primary function of a teacher as a leader is to "inspire others to do think that they might otherwise not do and encourage others to go in directs they might not otherwise pursue."   P. Schlechty

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"Stand up and finish what you started!"
~Bob Harper, Biggest Loser Trainer

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Always Remember...

I say this to my kids at school every time they are put into a group.

"Do you have to like your partner?"
No!
"Do you have to love your partner?"
No!
"Do you have to be best friends with your partner?"
No!
"Do you have to respect your partner?"
Yes!

It's just like the workplace and the real world, don't you think?

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Always Remember...

Michael Jordan once said, "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

And I say, why not expect great things?

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I finished classic book 2 of 3 (from my bucket list) this afternoon.

From The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett:

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when ones gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in some one's eyes.

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Always remember, "Do your best and forget the rest."

--From the workout video P90X.