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Mike Weaver took up boxing in the swamps of Vietnam in early 1970.  Not yet twenty years old, the young Marine found the training deeply inspiring and threw himself into it with a passion.  He lost his first fight as an amateur.  His opponent, Duane Bobick, was a future superstar who would fight in the 1972 Olympics.

After leaving the Marines and Vietnam, Weaver moved to California where he would train to the point of exhaustion.

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The great pyramids of Egypt were started by a single stone, placed by a single worker on that first day. That single stone didn't amount to much of anything. The slave worker who placed it there didn't get a bonus. There wasn't a celebration to commemorate the occasion.

Most likely no one cared -- or stopped to notice.

It wasn't anything worthy of a second thought. But that start -- that first stone -- became a monument we call one of the great wonders of the world. Millions of people around the world travel to see the work started by the placement of that first stone.

That is the power of beginnings.

Getting started is the hardest thing you'll do.

Once you have momentum, progress is easy. Almost automatic.

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Several years ago I got conned out of about $100,000 by a business partner con man. This guy had the right lines and the awesome business plan and I was silly enough to lose out. Stupid me! (It wasn't the first time I made a stupid play...)

Soon after, I let it go and moved on to focusing my attention on other more important matters. For a while, I was thinking about blasting the person on one of the popular support forums, but I could never come to grips with the lack of professionalism of airing dirty laundry. It wasn't that I was super moral - the whole thing just didn't feel right...

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Anything you want in life can be achieved with enough hard work. It doesn't matter what your goal is, the resources you have, or what odds are stacked against you, hard work levels the playing field.

It makes heroes out of ordinary grinders. It catapults the diligent ahead of the intellectual.

It's the perfect get-rich-quick scheme.

Without the quick part.

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There are times when it is easier to be happy than others. But being happy isn't just luck. You can make yourself happy.

Surround yourself by people who love you.

Give to others more than you take from them.

Take time to reconnect with old friends.

Laugh a little more.

Take pictures of the moments that matter.

Create an environment that makes you smile.

Believe in magical possibilities.

Sit still. Watch. Soak in the laughter.

Say "Thank You" and "You're Welcome" a few more times each day.

You can be happy even if it's not a holiday.

You can be happy any time.

It's just a decision for you to make. And some planning.

That's all. A situation that you create.

So be happy. Today. Tomorrow.

Every day.

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For 24 years, Joannie had trained to be in this position.  She entered the Olympics, with 12 gold medals in the last 12 consecutive Canadian National Championships.  Along the way she had picked up international medals in China, the Grand Prix, and Russia -- competing in 39 different competitions.  She practiced until she turned her 17th place showing at the World Championships into 2nd place just five years later-- officially becoming the vice-World Champion.  And now the Olympics.

The stage was set.  Expectations ran high.  Her practices were flawless.

Two days before she was scheduled to perform, just as she was waking up to begin her final practice, she was startled by a surprise visit from her father, Norman.

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You pretending that you have it all figured out is costing you massive momentum. If you're bull-headed, chances are that you need to get better at asking for help. You need to stop pretending you have it all figured it out and start purposefully asking other people to help you figure it out together.

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Warriors act differently than everyone else. They don’t make (or take) excuses. If he wants to win, he wins.

How much more impactful would you be if you decided to fight like a warrior?

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You can't make progress without pain. It's a simple as that.

It's not fun to hurt. It's not pleasant to be uncomfortable. It's unnatural to willfully put yourself in that position.

But it's also the only way that you grow.

“Progress doesn't happen automatically. ”

You don't earn success because you hang around for enough time. You don't build momentum because you want it really bad.

To be successful you have to do hard things.

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Albert Ernest Clifford Young died a few years ago in late 2003 at the age of 81.  Twenty years earlier (at a spry 61 years of age) the Australian potato farmer accomplished the impossible.

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