Tag: dreams
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
I am not a big fan of Tina Turner although I find her story inspiring and I love the sound of her music. This post is not about the track “What’s love got to do with it”. It has something to do with what love’s got to do with making money or attaining financial freedom.…
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Achieving Your Goals: The Missing Link
As we come to the end of the year, it is natural to take stock and plan for next year. Deep inside every one of us is the yearning for progress, progress towards our goals and dreams, whatever it may be. A lot of us are battle weary, from countless hopes betrayed, targets unmet from…
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You Have Something to Offer
Has someone ever spoken to you, and you turned back, thinking it was not you the person was addressing? You may be wondering for a split second “Could it be me? Nah!”, so you looked back to be doubly sure. So it was you after all! Sadly, a lot of us believe we have nothing…
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Caught Between Your Dream and Your Job
This title is inspired by a book I read last year – ‘Caught Between A Job And A Dream by Delatoro McNeal’, a writer and motivational speaker I admire. According to a survey done in the US on job satisfaction prior to the release of the book, more than 87% of Americans hate their jobs.…
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The Secret to Achieving Your Goals and Dreams
We often set our annual goals under the flush of an inspirational new year sermon we just heard on defining how we want our year to turn out, our year of … We unearth our long-abandoned desires, brush them up, and bingo, we have our goals for the year. It takes more than a desire…
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‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Steve Jobs
When I read this, I could not pass it up. A pretty poignant story of a man’s pursuit of his dream, coming from a disadvantaged background. The rest is history This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.…
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Faith, Focus and Follow-through (FFF)
As we bid goodbye to 2009 and fine-tune our goals for 2010, I want to share a few nuggets that will stand us in good stead in the coming year, as we seek to improve on our planned outcomes compared to the passing year. We may have realized by now that wishes and prayers alone…
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It Takes Courage to be You
In your quest for financial freedom, you need the courage to break away from the comfort of following the crowd to be you. If you stick with the crowd, you will get what the crowd has. Financial freedom happens at the top, a level far above where the crowd operates. To get there, you need…
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Don’t Allow Your Circumstances Determine the Magnitude of Your Desire and Dreams
It is quite natural to allow circumstances to determine the magnitude of our dreams and desires. We call it realistic. Reality is what we know, can feel, smell, and touch. It is something that we deal with every day, and can relate with. More often than not, the reality is all we know. However, our…
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Discover your passion
What makes you tick? What makes your creative juices flow and your adrenaline surge? Before you went to school to go study to get a job, what is it you really wanted to do? What is your passion? You need to discover your passion. Take your mind back in time. Before your parents and committee…