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Most people dream of success but believe that life gets in the way settling instead for a life in the averages. A mindset can change everything - regardless of YOUR circumstances - in sports, business, school, community service or in the family!
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Articles of real people who morph from a Wisher or Wishy-Washy stance into people of substance with conviction, achievement and happiness... Washers!
Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey: American Author
TEENAGE GIRL STORIES
Two Military Daughters Start Sisterhood For Teens. Teenagers Moranda Hern and Kaylei Deakin are trying to organize the first major get-together for daughters of troops who have gone to war.
Bethany Hamilton. Growing up in Hawaii she had earned her first surfing trophy at the age of 7. In 2003, at the age of 13, she was attacked by a shark and lost one of her arms; her whole arm gone! Within 3 weeks though, she was back surfing earning awards just a year later in 2004 and a 1st place award in 2005!
11-year-old Lexi Lehrman created the Love Lexi Foundation and raised more than $24,000 for breast cancer research. July 2009
Kseniya Simonova, a young Ukrainian girl tells a fantastic awe inspiring story where the audience will even weep with nothing but sand and her hands.
Shakira owes all to family bankruptcy. When the singer was 18, she founded the Barefoot Foundation, a charity to help poor children in her native Colombia get an education
TEENAGE BOY STORIES
Alex Griffith, 16, raised more than $60,000 for a new playground at the Russian hospital where he was born and abandoned by his parents. Alex devoted 2 ½ years to his Krasnoyarsk Playground Project by recruiting more than 500 volunteers in five countries. 9/11/2009
The Teen Who Sailed the World Solo On July 16, 2009, 397 days after starting his journey aboard the Intrepid, a 36-foot, $6,000 vessel he purchased with money saved from summer jobs, 17-year-old Zac Sunderland of Thousand Oaks, Calif., became the newest - and youngest - member of that exclusive fraternity... a voyage that spanned nearly 28,000 nautical miles.
Ephren Taylor, teenage multimillionaire, the youngest African-American CEO of a publicly traded company. 8/23/2009
"Save It" -- a climate change warning. Written and directed by 10-year-old Nikos Spiridakis.
William Kamkwamba, Malawian boy, uses wind to power hope, electrify village. Armed with a book the then-14-year-old taught himself to build windmills; his windmills now generate electricity and pump water in his hometown. 10/5/2009
MEN STORIES
From miserable man to 'Ultraman': A fitness journey (7/21/09)
Brad Blauser, Texas man brings hope to 'forgotten' disabled Iraqi kids. August 2009
Dumpster diving + computer = 100 trees. Jude Ndambuki teaches high school chemistry, but when he's not in class, you might find him Dumpster diving for discarded computers.
Jet-Man. Yves Rossy is the first man to fly across the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, UK, using a homemade, single, jet-powered wing.
Two brothers, no fears and $1 billion empire. Michael and Steven Roberts didn't have two quarters to rub together a couple of decades ago. Now, the two African-American business leaders estimate their holdings -- from hotels to TV stations -- are worth $1 billion. 8/24/2009
Olympian's strength built from life on the streets. Bill Schuffenhauer's parents were drug addicts, his mother was a prostitute who was often beaten in front of him. He knew that if he was going to survive, he had to do whatever it took to make it. He stole from people; he ate from garbage cans; he got locked up in juvenile detention for breaking into a bike shop when he was trying to get something he could sell for money so he could eat. Feb 22, 2010
An 80% pay cut for Jim Elliott was worth it to teach scuba to people with disabilities. "Seeing these kids' smiles is more powerful than you can imagine." Mar 1, 2010
WOMEN STORIES
The Margaret Moth Story. Her path, she explained, was mostly driven by a love of history and her desire to see it unfold firsthand. "I think that life's sort of like a game of tennis... you have no choice over how the ball comes to you, but it's how you hit it back that counts." Sniper fire and terminal cancer could not keep her down. She died with dignity giving the world uncommon views and got everything out of life!
Mortgage Apple Cakes (MACs). A New Jersey woman has cooked up an idea to save her home from foreclosure.
Garbage for good. In Indonesia, one woman is helping those who make their living by picking through trash while also aiding the landscape with an environmentally conscious line of products.
Faith Coleman's ordeal as an uninsured cancer patient drove her to help others without health insurance. 6,700 patients have benefited from her initial quest.
Paralympics offers a vision of 'what's possible' to those paralyzed. Anything you can dream, you can achieve!
40 under 40, Meet business's hottest young rising stars. They're innovators, value creators, and
agents of change.
To LIVE and PROSPER...
all living things need WATER!
Attitude and passion "water" the mind with purpose and determination.
Let your talents flow.
Jump into the stream,
when you have a dream!
The Seeds of Education Sal Khan turns out thousands of videos from a converted walk-in closet in his Silicon Valley home. With his MBA from Harvard, he has three degrees from MIT: a BS in math and a BS and a master's in electrical engineering and computer science.
Khan Academy.org, with Sal Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTube and elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Khan's playlist of 1,630 tutorials (at last count) are now seen an average of 70,000 times a day -- nearly double the student body at Harvard and Stanford combined. Since he began his tutorials in late 2006, Khan Academy has received 18 million page views worldwide.
Follow your passion,
success will follow!
wash (wosh)v.
1. To cleanse, To flow over, against, or past:
2. To carry, erode, remove, or destroy by the action of moving water:
3. To rid of corruption or guilt; cleanse or purify:
4. To cause to undergo a swirling action:
5. .v. To hold up under examination; be convincing:
6. To flow, sweep, or beat with a characteristic lapping sound:
7. To be carried away, removed, or drawn by the action of water. 8. To be revealed eventually:
9. To turn out well in the end.
wish (wish)n. A desire, longing, or strong inclination for a specific thing. An expression of a desire, longing, or strong inclination; a petition. Something desired or longed for. To have or feel a desire.
See stories of ordinary people reaching extraordinary heights. Witness their exemplary sportsmanship, their heartfelt dedication and their tenacity.
Military Business Leaders of today, and the future. Look at the experience, edge and commitment of these up and coming business leaders. What price did they pay to achieve their glory? We admire them. How many will follow in their footsteps?
Teaching kids to read from the back of a burro. Luis Soriano, the teacher uses donkeys to bring mobile library to children in rural Colombia. More than 4,000 youngsters have benefited since his "Biblioburro" program began in 1990.
Roz Savage: rowing oceans for a better world -- she has rowed single-handed across the Atlantic and is now tackling the Pacific. Roz's advice for anyone stuck in a rut is: don't be afraid to fail. If you know what you want to do, then don't be intimidated. Write a list of what you can do to achieve your goals. If there seems to be things on it you can't do yet, then Roz says it isn't detailed enough -- any task can be broken down into achievable steps.
College Entrepreneurs in the middle of a recession. CitiSoles, DropCard and SEC Excursions. 8/21/2009
You will never look at a chicken catcher the same way after this surprising act. Winner of America's Got Talent and a $1,000,000 prize.
Eco Solutions' Green Inspirations. What motivates someone to dedicate their life to save the planet? From art and conservation to activism and philanthropy, people from all walks of life are doing extraordinary things in the name of environmentalism.
With his MBA from Harvard, he has three degrees from MIT: a BS in math and a BS and a master's in electrical engineering and computer science.
Khan Academy.org, with Sal Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTube and elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Khan's playlist of 1,630 tutorials (at last count) are now seen an average of 70,000 times a day -- nearly double the student body at Harvard and Stanford combined. Since he began his tutorials in late 2006, Khan Academy has received 18 million page views worldwide.
