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I know the price of success — dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
    —     Frank Lloyd Wright
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2018 #45: Still Trying To
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2016 Never Had It, Never Will (Donald Trump)
2015 20/20
2014 All Of My Best Ideas Come While Walking…
2013 Learn To Learn
2012 I Remind You
2011 Respect And Prestige
2010 Living Legends (Willie Nelson) and the Gettysburg Address

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I give you the information and techniques in a simple and straightforward way, and you put the information and techniques to good use by putting in the hard work.
There are no shortcuts.
There is a direct relationship between effort and results.  If you are disciplined and you work hard at learning, then you will get there.
   —     Fran Sands
From his book:  “The Beginner Boxer Toolkit
Online at:  www.myboxingcoach.com
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On This Day In:
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2016 Looking To November
2015 It Isn’t The End
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2014 Friends
2013 Learning Bitter
2012 Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
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2011 There Is No God, But God
2010 Another Running Book…

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Instead of allowing our kids to beat themselves up when things don’t go their way, we might all pause to question a culture that has taught them that being anything less than overwhelmed is lazy, that how they perform for others is more important than what actually inspires them and that where they go to college matters more than the kind of person they are.
The point is not to give our kids a pass on working hard and doing their best.  But fantasizing that they can control everything is not really resilience.  We are harming our children by implying that they can bend life to their will, and as students walk across commencement stages this year, we would be wise to remind them that life has a way of sucker-punching us when we least expect it.  It’s often the people who learn to say “stuff happens” who get up the fastest.
     —    Rachel Simmons
From her opinion / editorial:  “Tell kids the truth: hard work doesn’t always pay off
Appearing in:  Time Magazine;  dtd:  1 July 2019
Online at:  https://time.com/5593706/hard-work-achievement-mindset/
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2019 Stuff Happens
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2018 Looking Into Golf
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2017 Improvise
2016 Got Leisure?
2015 It’s Been Hurtin’ For Quite A While Now
2014 Curious Talent
2013 Eureka
2012 Slow Me
2011 He Said What?!?
2010 Gritty
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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.  The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
    —    Thomas J. Watson
[Actually, “just” thinking can not settle ALL of the world’s problems.  Compromise and diplomacy are also often required…  More reasons #IncompetentDonald never really had a leg to stand on.    —    kmab]
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2014 Passion Flooding
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
    —    Peter Drucker
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Faith is a lazy way of trying to get what we want, without doing anything at all.
    —    Anonymous
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On This Day In:
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2020 #IncompetentTrump And His Pandemic Briefings
#IncompetentTrump
2019 I Hope So
2018 Painted Into
2017 Prayers, Miracles And Lottery Tickets
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2016 Dignity And Grace
2015 Is It Warm Enough For You
2014 What The Right STILL Wants
2013 Embrace Serendipity
2012 Your Order, Please
2011 Well Enough Anyway

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    —    Theodore Roosevelt
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2015 Hunger
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2013 Doing Right
2012 A Short Course In Human Relations
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Such A Fool
2011 I’m Working For A Living

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