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The Road I Never Chose

During the twenty-two years I served in the US Army, I found myself traveling down many roads I never anticipated.  This video is a tribute to the outstanding men and women serving our country who are unselfishly doing the same.  Thanks to Brooks Maguire for contributing his song, “The Road I Never Chose”, to this project.

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12 Quiet Rituals of Enormously Successful Humans

The result of enormous success is often pretty noisy – lots of people talking, writing and sharing stories about it.  The actual process of achieving enormous success, on the other hand, is far more discreet.  But it’s this process that happens quietly, behind-the-scenes, that makes all the difference in the world.

HERE are twelve things the most successful people we know do quietly and diligently.

“A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.”

Henry Ward Beecher, ‘Eyes and Ears’