Persistence is needed in life. With all of the ups and downs in life, we learn that skills and talent is not enough to get to that top level in life. We need to have persistence in order to get through the failures in life.

So let's talk about how life is a marathon and that persistence is a super power we need to get through it.

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• Lelisa Desisa Wins the New York City Marathon in the Last Miles - The New York Times
• Wendell Phillips - Wikipedia — Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.

How do you go from a dream to reality? 3 steps is vital to do this. Let's talk about it.

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• How To Set Goals (And Why You Should Write Them Down) — There’s some impressive science to back up goal setting. And yet it’s something we’re never taught or encouraged to do. But the statistics don’t lie, and make a strong argument for getting good at this skill; and making a habit of it.
• Neuroscience Explains Why You Need To Write Down Your Goals If You Actually Want To Achieve Them — I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want to achieve a goal, you need to write it down. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but it actually does work.
• Why 3% of Harvard MBAs Make Ten Times as Much as the Other 97% Combined

We've prepared our minds for obstacles

It's now time to take action!

A good person dyes events with his own color... and turns whatever happens to his own benefit - Seneca

Opportunities doesn’t always come in the form in which we want them to. They might come in the form of obstacles and difficult situations. Let’s learn how to see obstacles for what they really are, opportunities in disguise.

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• King cake - Wikipedia — A king cake (sometimes shown as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings' cake) is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season; in other places, it is associated with the pre-Lenten celebrations of Mardi Gras/Carnival.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s no other definition of it. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

We often get being super duper smart with being a genius. We have that all wrong. It takes great ideas and dreams and the ability to manifest that into our world. Let's all become a genius1

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• Kenya Kirinyaga Kariru Release | Blue Bottle
• StrongLifts 5×5: Get Stronger by Lifting Weights only 3x/Week
• The Obstacle Is the Way - Wikipedia

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. - EPICTETUS

God, grant me the serenity, to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuht

There are things we can't control (weather, our parents, economics). And there are things in which we can control (work ethic, creativity, perspective, emotions). It's time for us to learn how to focus on the things we can control, and be at pace at things we can't.

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• High Performance Planner OFFICIAL — STAY MORE FOCUSED.

Welcome to the first episode of 2019. Let's get off to a great start of the year by discuss our overall theme and statement for the year. Whether you believe in New Year Resolutions or not, thinking about the year as a whole can help you achieve your goals.

We discuss...

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• The Coffee Enthusiast
• Infinity War’s Thanos proves CGI supervillains are a terrible idea - The Verge — The character’s disintegrating-grape look is a reminder that old-school makeup and costuming are often more convincing
• The Coffee Enthusiast on Facebook

Talent is cool and needed. But what happens when your world turns upside down and things you expect doesn’t happen and things you fear does. That’s when your ability to be cool and control your nerves is more valuable than your talent.

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• UMBC Seals Its Place in March Madness History with CBB's Greatest Upset Ever | Bleacher Report — The Retrievers—yes, Retrievers—might sound like PETA's weekend softball team. But on Friday, they fetched a victory that will forever define them as best of show, in the underdog division.
• Atl and Peru Together!