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Several years ago while researching a video presentation, I was introduced to a fascinating older woman. Her shop was quaint and filled to the brim with stuff of collector's dreams. I so enjoyed my conversations with her that I became a frequent visitor. In fact, I spent the entire summer drifting from one side of town to the other. All on the slight chance that she was back from New York with more goodies to drool over and purchase.

Once she invited me to bring some of my son's artistic drawings as a consideration for a children's line of furniture. We talked about her family's garment shop in California, and she shared comments of encouragement for my son. When she finally met him and discovered his dream of becoming a music producer, she casually asked him to let her hear some of his music. She had either a nephew or a grandson (I don't remember which) who was also interested in the music business. In fact, he had just recently gotten a recording contract for something or other in a genre my son knew, but one to which I rarely listened.

During one of my visits, this kind woman invited me to a business networking event she had planned. "This city isn't like where I came from. Here everyone is afraid to share their ideas and dreams with each other for fear of having them stolen. It shouldn't be like that. Business people should openly share with each other and try to help each other along."

That sounds to me like she had the millionaire mindset already working.

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When "educators" feel a study is needed to determine if bullying is wrong, and are now actively studying early sexual activity as a deterrent to teen delinquency, I feel our society is sometimes going to heck in the proverbial hand basket."We got a very surprising finding, particularly that early sex seems to forecast less antisocial behavior a few years later, rather than more," lead researcher Kathryn Paige Harden, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia, said in a prepared statement.
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You must go at it obsessively and set high standards for yourself along the way. There is no room for compromise when you are charting a course for your life or your career. I spoke to a group of sharp young people not long ago, and when I finished, some of the fellows came up and said they were interested in becoming professional speakers. They invited me to go out with them that evening to have a good time. These fellows looked as though they knew how to have a serious good time. Read the rest of this entry »

 

"To Learn How To Make Every Thought And Action Constructive, Is To Master The Secret Of All Attainment."

What to do with our lives! That's something nearly everyone has wondered at some point in time. Often it becomes a life-long quest to discover the answer.

Maybe it's not even necessary to feel we have to aspire to "some great thing." Why open ourselves up to the frustrations and possible disappointment? If we're okay with where we are now in this big old world, why should we seek for some deeper meaning, some purpose?

Does it really make a difference? Would anyone actually care? Absolutely. At least that's my opinion. Not everyone aspires to shake up the universe of course, and that's fine. Everyone has something special to offer the world that no one else has. It's unique only to them.

Les Brown made a statement once similar to this, "many people die with their songs still in them."

The meaning is that if you want to share your gift with the world, or to write a book and you keep putting it on the back burner, if something happens to you, that opportunity is lost to the world.

People will never have the chance to be inspired by your words, or to laugh at your candor. Someone may have been motivated to dream by your thoughts or to live a better life through the wisdom and experiences you shared. It's too late after you're gone.

Leo Buscaglia, one of my favorite authors, used to say, "At birth God gives us a great and precious gift. What we give back through our lives is our gift to Him."

I think having positive goals in life strong enough for you to believe in builds character. They keep you grounded and promote the growth and abundance of hope. I don't ever want to stop finding new "purposes" for my life, do you feel that way too?

Are you ever too old to find your purpose or to discover greatness? What do you think? Do you know anyone who has found their purpose, or re-discovered new ones long after the bloom has left the rose? I would love to hear your inspirational, humorous or thought provoking stories.