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Here’s a thumbs up from North Carolina about Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness.
“It has been years since a piece of literature has evoked such thought and inspiration in me so to you…I am grateful. After completing the book, I was eager to share this with [...]
Posted in Achieving Greatness, Acts Of Faith, All About Love, Art of Teaching, B.M.A.D.™ In 2009, Bloggers Making A Difference™, Change, Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinkers, Health & Fitness, Inspiration, Leadership, Parenting Skills, Personal Development, Personal Leadership, Taking A Stand, Think About It, Today's Thought, Wise Words on June 12th, 2009 6 Comments »
“Easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass
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“Nevertheless, there is at least one defining moment that occurs in the life of every generation when limit-testers, who honestly believe there are destined to become great, will choose to face their fears and embrace Change for the first time.” — Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness
After almost 2 years of waiting, what I’ve been calling [...]
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“If you want to hide something valuable, keep it inside of a book.” — Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness
Have you ever read something in a book that the “pearl of wisdom” you discovered became so valuable to you that it dramatically changed your life forever? What book did you read that inspired you and challenged [...]
Posted in Acts Of Faith, All About Love, Art of Teaching, Bloggers And Blogging, Book Excerpts, Creative Excellence, Creative Writing, Critical Thinkers, Education, Inspiration, Journalism, Leadership, My Big Dream, Personal Development, Personal Leadership, Steppin' Out Of The Darkness, Think About It on July 22nd, 2008 10 Comments »
“Ideas are not truly alive if they remain locked in a single mind. Our need to transfer them to others focuses us to consider why and where we want them to go, and how we want them to get there.” — Henry M. Boettinger
Are you someone who’s got a great idea, a vision, [...]
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This “revised” post now only contains the Prologue to Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness, “When Good People Become Great.” As time permits, I will begin posting brief excerpts from this introspective, inspirational story about “personal leadership” to inspire you to “face your fears and embrace Change.” Only then will you choose to take the next [...]
“Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As many of you know, I’ve been in the process of birthing my big dream, but it doesn’t want to cooperate. For all the new members to our culturally diverse group of critical thinkers, my big dream is the pending release of my first reality-based novel which bears the same name as this site. [...]
“Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Eph. 6:4; II Tim. 3:15.]”
Proverbs 22:6 The Amplified Bible
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Pedagogy is a word I discovered in the 1990’s while preparing to address a group of students with undeclared majors at California State University at Los Angeles. For all who failed to bring your dictionaries, Pedagogy is a word I use to refer to the science, or art, of “teaching teachers how [...]
