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“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows,” Rocky reminds us. “It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.”
Watch this video to get Rocky’s inspiring advice on what to do about it:

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By Carl Woolston
Like a great movie and story, great and successful lives aren’t created by chance.
The movie industry is huge! Each weekend, millions flock to see the newest releases. A DVD player is standard in almost any home.
We can now stream movies over our computers and even phones. The industry continues to grow — despite [...]

Joe DiMaggio was one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time and a Hall of Famer.
In a spring training game — that did not count in the standing or statistics — Joe drove a ball down the first baseline.
Instead of jogging to first with a single, Joe sprinted around first and dove headfirst [...]

The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned, pot-bellied coal stove.
A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived.
One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames. They dragged the unconscious little boy [...]

By Bob Kaelin
If you’re feeling burned out with your Max business, it may be because you don’t know how to “keep score.” You haven’t defined the parameters of success clearly enough.
Charles Coonradt’s great book, The Game of Work: How to Enjoy Work as Much as Play, has the solution to this problem.
He observes:
“On a hot [...]

Ever wonder how to get more happiness out of your life? Watch this video and learn how using your strengths in the right way can fill your life with more bliss.

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If you were diagnosed with cancer and given months to live, how would it change your life? What would suddenly become most important to you?
Watch this video to learn from a person for whom this was a reality.

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The messages people try to get across are sometimes lost in the way they are delivered. Watch this video and gain a greater understanding of how to deliver messages so that yours are never lost.

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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”-Theodore Roosevelt

One prevailing counterfeit of humility is self-deprecation, or thinking you have little or no value. But as Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale wrote:
“People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”
Pride leads you to compare yourself to others and to derive your self-worth from things outside of yourself.
When [...]