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Inspiration, motivation, pep talks, psychology, etc....

Character:

7 Ways To Demonstrate True Personal Mental Strength and Build Character   (thechrisvossshow.com)
("We’d all like to be stronger. Whether that strength be physical, emotional or intellectual, most of us have an area in which we’d like to improve and have others admire.")

  

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Powerful video Can't explain it just watch (youtubr.com)
 

  

"Come to Jesus":

Emergency Numbers Posted  (AuthorsDen.com) 
("For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that
through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we
might have hope. ( Romans 15:4 *NIV )
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Tamara Lowe at Christ Fellowship (YouTube.com) 
("Tamara does her little motivational rap at Christ Fellowship on Valentines Weekend 2010.")
  

Criticism:

10 Tips to Manage Criticism  (dailyblogtips.com)
("Fact: you aren’t always right. Fact: some of your ideas just aren’t practical. Fact: a second, third and even a fourth opinion improves even the best-thought-out plan – if you’re willing to listen and learn.")

  

A Target on Your Back  (cba-ramblings.blogspot.com)
("Once you're a published author, you're going to have a target on your back.")
  
How to Keep Criticism From Getting the Best of You    (michelecushatt.com) 
("If you live any kind of public life, criticism is part of your day. You know this. I know this. But it doesn’t make it any easier to take.")
 

Disappointment:

A hierarchy of failure worth following  (sethgodin.typepad.com) 
("Not all failures are the same. Here are five kinds, from frequency = good all the way to please-don't!")
  

Fifteen Top Ways to Overcome Disappointment (networkedblogs.com) 
("... it is safe to say that many of us have faced disappointments in our lives. Especially that last few years in this economy.")
 

Disposition:

7 Signs You're an Angry Person  (wisdeo.com)
("How can you tell the difference between being upset and having a real anger management problem?")
  

Dreams:

Making Your Dream a Reality (kendavis.com) 
("The world is full of dreamers, but few who are willing to identify and take action on the steps to make their dreams a reality.")
  

Inspiration:

 

Do You Have These 11 Traits of Highly Creative People?  (copyblogger.com) 
("Would you like to be more creative in your copy and blogging? It’s really not as hard or mysterious as you might think.")
  

New Years Inspirational Quotes  (youtube.com)  
(Put the past behind and push ahead. ....  Jeremiah 29:11 )
  
The Noticer   (michaelhyatt.com)  
(Book Review of "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews.  Good advice, here.)
  

Life Lessons:

10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein   (dumblittleman.com) 
("Einstein is considered the father of modern physics and is probably the most successful scientist there ever was".)
 

Conan O’Brien Delivers The Year's Best Commencement Speech  (gawker.com)  
(Future graduation speakers should take note of the format Conan O'Brien used when speaking to this year's Dartmouth grads: 20 minutes of stand up with life lessons buried so deep that you almost don't notice them.)
  

Limitations:

5 Most Failed Predictions - Don't limit your beliefs  (thechrisvossshow.com) 
("Never say Never? Human existence is filled with people overcoming expectations and previously self-limiting paradigms of belief.")
 

Let Go of Perfectionism: 7 Powerful Tips That Will Help You (positivityblog.com) 
("Never say Never? Human existence is filled with people overcoming expectations and previously self-limiting paradigms of belief.")
  

Manliness:

 Rudyard Kipling 
  -  IF
   (YouTube video)
  

7 Lessons in Manliness from the Greatest Generation  (artofmanliness.com)  
("Every generation has its share of men who fully live the art of manliness. But there may never have been a generation when the ratio of honorable men to slackers was higher than the one born between 1914 and 1929.")
  

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How to Be a Gentleman  (youtube.com)  
("Nearly every man wants to be a gentleman. He may not know exactly what that means, but his true desire is to be respected and admired in the way only a gentleman can be.")
  
Super Bowl 44 Spot  (youtube.com)  
("A guy from birth to the shower and the rest of his life.")
  
Take Time To Be A Dad Today  (fatherhood.org)  
("Like President Obama said in a recent message, even the smallest moments can have the biggest impact in a child's life.")
  
Tools Everyone Should Own   (shopping.yahoo.com)
(Man is "weak in himself, and of small stature," wrote 19th-century essayist Thomas Carlyle. Yet, with tools, "the granite mountain melts into light dust before him, seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un­wearying steeds."")
  
Types of Skills Everyone Should Know – Video – Top 100 Important Skills - Popular Mechanics  (popularmechanics.com)
("Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff.")
  

Motivation:

Motivational Posters: Founding Fathers Edition  (artofmanliness.com) 
("From 'Founding Fathers' edition of our motivational posters series. ")
  

Old Age:

Why You Aren't Dead Yet  (michaelhyatt.com)  
(You have a purpose and the best is yet to come.)
 

Beatles "When I'm Sixty Four"  (youtube.com)
(Very fun. - S. K. Smith)
  

Perseverance:
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50 Famously Successful People Who Failed At First (onlinecollege.org) 
("Not everyone who's on top today got there with success after success. More often than not, those who history best remembers were faced with numerous obstacles that forced them to work harder and show more determination than others.")
  


Famous Failures   (YouTube.com) 
("Inspiring video on persevering no matter how many times you have failed in life.")
  

Secret to Success: Famous Failures   (YouTube.com) 
("Harrison Ford experienced many failures before becoming a successful actor.")
  

Pep talks:

Up Time America by Kimberly Alyn (YouTube.com) 
("It's Up Time America!")
  

Al Pacino's Inspirational Speech   (YouTube.com) 
("From Any Given Sunday (1999).")
  

Positive Thinking:

Positive Thinking Quotes, Positive Attitude Quotes, Positive Sayings (allgreatquotes.com) 
("Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.Philippians 4:8 (King James Version))
  

Possibilities:

What Does This Make Possible?  (michaelhyatt.com) 
("The bottom line is this: you can’t always choose what happens to you. Accidents and tragedies happen. But you can choose how you respond to those situations. One of the best ways to begin is to ask yourself the right question.")
 

Quotes:

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes Collection (inspirational-quotes.info) 
("...collection of inspirational and motivational quotations.")
  

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Philosophy of life (YouTube.com) 
("
Life Quotes and Sayings, Thoughts on the Philosophy of Life
Music by Enya.")

New Years Inspirational Quotes (YouTube.com) 
  

The Official Site of Will Rogers- Quotes (cmgww.com) 
(""He was a compassionate man; he was always pleasant, he was always kindly. That is the key word--kindly!" -- actress Peggy Wood.")
Success Quotes, Famous Success Quotes, Sayings about being Successful  (allgreatquotes.com) 
("Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather")
  

Self esteem:

9 tips for more real self-esteem (mikeduering.com) 
(The picture in this post says it all.)
  


Be you actual size (jeffvankooten.typepad.com) 
("Theologian Eugene Peterson said that many of us go through life impersonating ourselves. ...")
  

Simplify:

Tent Life   (tentlife.net) 
(Sometimes you need to disconnect from hi tech to get reconnected with yourself and the universe.))
 

Time Sense:

The Secret Powers of Time  (youtube.com) 
("Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world..")
 

Unconditional 
Love:

Buffett recounts the best advice he's ever received  (news.yahoo.com) 
("What’s the best advice Warren Buffett has ever received?  You might be surprised: It has nothing to do with money.")
  

  

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