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Donna DiNicola wanted to guarantee that her offer for a 900 square foot home for her son was accepted, so she threw in something unexpected, pizza. DiNicola knew that the real estate market in the area was heating up so she needed something to stand out. Since she owned an Italian Restaurant, she offered…

Did you happen to read the recent article that claimed: “the Faster You Die, the More Popular the Game?” People enjoy a challenge. As it turns out, video game designers are purposefully making their games more difficult—and gamers love it! People who play these games post videos on their improvement,…

Most people think that the secret to success in life is hard work. A former Harvard researcher, and the author of the Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, says happiness may be the real key to success. Achor spent twelve years researching at Harvard and says most people think happiness is genetic, but he…

Jong Sim Rim won the 3rd weightlifting gold medal for North Korea and, like all North Korean athletes, she credited her success to the great leadership of the North Korean Supreme Leader Kim, Jong Un. However, few people from the western world take this seriously. So what was the real reason for the…

Lance Armstrong was one of the greatest cyclists in the history of the game. He won Tour de France 7 times. However, the USADA recently exposed his lies. He did not play fair. The USADA has strong evidence that Armstrong used dope. Doping ruined his career as a cyclist. He lost all his medals and past…

In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigned, which was a surprise to all. However, the media reported that he decided to resign after receiving the results of an internal investigation, “with 300 page, two-volume dossier that laid bare a sordid tale of blackmail, corruption and gay sex at the Vatican.” The nine…

This all kind of reminds me of something I just read about NASA. In 1972, I turned 13 years old and NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time magazine, the satellite's primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph it and its moons, and beam data to earth…

Liz Murray’s drug-addicted parents raised her and her sister in poverty in New York—really raised isn’t the right word, they had to care for themselves. Her father was an intelligent man, quite gifted, but lived a diminished life because of the drugs. Her mother suffered from mental illness along with…

IT CAN BE DONE Subject ACHIEVEMENT "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." [Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1968, quoted in Norman Vincent Peale, My Favorite Quotations. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990, p. 2…

Liz Murray’s drug-addicted parents raised her and her sister in poverty in New York—really raised isn’t the right word, they had to care for themselves. Her father was an intelligent man, quite gifted, but lived a diminished life because of the drugs. Her mother suffered from mental illness along with…

LOW BEGINNINGS DON'T ALWAYS LEAD TO LOW ACHIEVEMENT When he was born, he was estimated to have an 1Q of 81.He was withdrawn from school after three months and was considered backward by the school officials. He suffered from scarlet fever and respiratory infections, and his emotional health was poor…

The attempts to climb Mount Everest were all failures until Sir Edmund Hillary finally climbed to the top in 1953. Between 1920 and 1952, seven major expeditions had failed to reach the summit. In 1924, the famous mountaineer George Leigh-Mallory had perished in the attempt. In 1952, a team of Swiss…

SUCCESS Bob Dole lost the 1996 presidential race, but many believe he came out a winner in 2000. Dole’s quick wit has made him an instant success as a commentator on Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2000.” “After his loss, Dole could have emerged as an elder statesman or an embittered old man.” According…

LEADERSHIP In Managing Change to Reduce Resistance, Lila Booth, writes, “A change process must be participatory in order to succeed. People need a chance to express their assessment of the current situation, their hopes and anxieties about the process, their recommendations about how to proceed.” --…

FEAR In his book, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill O'Reilly writes, “The big reason that many folks accept the unacceptable and settle for less than they can achieve can be summed up in one word: fear.” A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Kindle Loc. 580-81 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Proverbs 28:1…

GLORY How long have you been playing golf and how many holes in one have you recorded? Central Illinois amateur golfer Curt Hocker, 22, is on a roll. Five rolls, to be exact. Ask anyone at the El Paso Golf Club in Kappa, Ill., where Hocker has recorded five holes-in-one in the last week, including two…

ACCOMPLISHMENTS Super Bowl XLI made cultural history because it was the first time teams coached by African Americans faced each other in the big game. It was also a big day for Indianapolis Coach Tony Dungy who became one of only a handful of men who have won the Super Bowl Title as both a player and…

IMPOSSIBLE Overwhelming seems too weak a word for the odds the Red Sox faced. For one, the Boston Red Sox were playing against the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees. That in itself is daunting, but the odds of coming back in a best of seven series after losing the first three games were insurmountable.…

Loving what you do is the key that opens the door for achievement. When you don’t like what you’re doing, it really shows—no matter how hard you try to pretend it doesn’t. You can become like the little boy named Eddie whose grandmother was an opera lover. She had season tickets, and when Eddie turned…

James Calderwoood, 18, of Chevy Chase, Md., has earned all 121 possible merit badges offered in the United States under the scouting program. He met scouting requirements in fields ranging from public health, photography, archery and even home repairs since launching his scouting career in first grade.…

PROVERBS 24:16 I was looking up a baseball stat recently and in the "lifetime achievements" section I came across a list with some rather impressive names on it. At the top of the list was Reggie Jackson. His name was followed by Willie Stargell. Also on the list, near the top, were Jose Canseco, Tony…