High expectation always precedes high achievement.
You’re as small as your controlling desires, or as great
as your dominant aspirations.
Once your mind stretches to a new idea it never goes back
to its original dimensions.
Dream of little goals and you can expect little achievement.
Dream big and you’ll win big success.
The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream.
Lakers beat Mavericks 114-107 to go 13-1
LOS ANGELES(AP) With every game the Los Angeles Lakers play, one nagging question keeps cropping up: How did they lose to the Detroit Pistons - at home?
Kobe Bryant scored a season-high 35 points, and the Lakers used a 17-0 run in the second half Friday night to beat the Dallas Mavericks 114-107 and improve the NBA’s best record to 13-1.
As the population of high school graduates declines nationwide, Midwest and East Coast colleges are hoping to attract California students to keep their enrollment numbers steady.
By Larry Gordon (LA Times)
Dory Streett didn’t beat around the bush when she spoke to students recently at a high school near downtown Los Angeles about Colby College, a liberal arts school in Maine. It’s 3,000 miles from home, there’s snow for long stretches and its community of Waterville has only 16,000 residents.
The evening of November 26th, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, three days later. According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more.
As of this moment, the identity of the attackers has yet to be definitively determined, though there are reports indicating some of the gunmen were Pakistani - at least nine of them have been killed, nine more arrested. As of this writing, there were a reported 151 people killed from 11 different countries - though nearly 100 were Indian. More than 300 injuries have also been reported - those numbers may yet rise as several hostage situations still exist in the city.
It’s a psychological law that whatever you desire to accomplish
you must first impress upon your subconscious mind.
Your inner thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor,
loved or unloved, happy or unhappy,
attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
What you impress upon your mind, you’ll inevitably become.
Relentless, repetitive self talk will change your self image.
You’ll affect your subconscious
mind with verbal repetition.
Constant repetition carries conviction.
When you change your values
you’ll change your behavior.
Start thinking of yourself as becoming
the person you want to be.
Self suggestion will make you
the master of yourself.
You can become whatever you want to be.
When you believe you can, you can.
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Former President Al Gore and Dr. Wangari Muta Maatha to Receive Chairman’s Award
The 40th NAACP Image Awards will broadcast live from Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium Thursday, Feb. 12 (8:00-10:00 pm ET/PT) on FOX. The star-studded broadcast, which coincides with the NAACP’s 100th anniversary, is executive-produced by Vicangelo Bulluck and will kick off the organization’s year-long centennial celebration.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Former Vice President Al Gore and Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai will be awarded the NAACP Chairman’s Award during the special. The Chairman’s Award, chosen by NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond, is bestowed in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service.
by j.a.c.
Do you believe in soul mates?
I googled the term to get an appropriate definition and wikipedia spit this out: a term sometimes used to designate someone with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality and/or compatibility. Well then, according to wiki, I have about 3 or 4 of those! One of my soul mates is my ex-boyfriend. Our relationship was more than just a boyfriend, girlfriend thing. I want to say that we were best friends but I don’t even think ‘best friends’ accurately describes how we interacted. That term seems too pathetic. We were connected in a way that was beyond rational. To this day and 2 boyfriends later, I still refer to him as my soul mate. And then there’s my girl Nikki. We have almost nothing in common except for our spirituality. We can go a year without speaking, but as soon as we do, the conversations we have about God nearly draw us to tears. Our friendship/sisterhood is precious to me. And finally, have you ever met someone who’s a stranger one minute and your new favorite person the next? I can talk to the homie Chris ALL DAY LONG. When we speak, our conversations are dead on and the silences are perfect. We both discerned that I’m a female version of him. He’s the only person I can’t get sick of.
But when most people are asked to define ’soul mate’, you’ll hear some version of a soul mate being the one person in the universe that is truly meant for you. Well in that case, I don’t believe in soul mates. This version is too limiting. It would be depressing to believe that there was one person for me in the entire world. What if my ’soul mate’ lived in Thailand? If I never traveled there, does that mean I’ll never meet him? Does it mean that i’m doomed and will never have true love? This world’s too big of a place to believe that there’s only one out there for you. You make and break your own relationships. If you put in the work, your souls can connect. If you don’t… well. Good luck to you. Make your own destiny! Don’t wait on the world to bring it to you.
What about you? Do you believe in Soul Mates? Hit us with a comment.
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