My dad, Boyd L. Black, passed away last Wednesday (3/30/1930 – 3/4/2009) after a long, hard battle with cancer. When he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer about 2 years ago;
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Slaying Giants
Look at each problem or goal on your list as a giant that you must slay. Do your homework. Learn the required skills. Pray for wisdom and guidance. Then walk out and face your giant. Don’t wait for an opportunity, start moving and opportunities will present themselves. Take aim and expect greatness.
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Event Horizon: Black Holes of Failure
Failure is like a black hole. And just like a black hole, there’s an event horizon that you can cross and you will probably never come back. Like a black hole, failure draws you in. Its pull will try to keep you near and close. The closer you get to the event horizon the stronger the pull. What’s more, you don’t feel it or know it until some external force points it out. Even then, most of us deny it. Instead of screaming at yourself like Captain Kirk: “Scotty I need more power, give me all she’s got…”, you’re telling Spock that he’s wrong about the imminent dangers ahead and to just relax “everything will be OK”…
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Two Brothers, One Wife… Perfect Internet Business Model?
What’s your reality? You may want to be wealthy and successful in business, but if you’re not, then success is just as foreign to you as sharing your wife with your brothers (or being married to several brothers if you’re a woman). If you truly want to change your reality, or your situation in life, it takes a huge effort.
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Why Do Smart People Sometimes Find Success So Difficult?
You’re working your tail off trying to create a business that will make a profit. Maybe you’re even working smart and not just hard, but yet you constantly feel like you’re on a treadmill and not getting anywhere. How many times have you watched as someone else thought up the same ideas as you had, ideas that you could never find the time or money to act on, ideas that you knew would not only work but be extraordinarily successful, how many times have you watched as others took those same ideas and made them a reality, their reality? It’s frustrating, very frustrating.
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Know Yourself
This is the 4th guest post from my Grandfather, Clyde Kirkman (1915 – 1989). These guest posts are from a set of articles he wrote for the company newspaper where he worked (Burlington Industries). Before we can succeed in any relationship, we have to know and understand ourselves…
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