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The Path is All Yours Chapter 1 You must be smart and strategic about how you use your content. First create valuable content that will grow your influence. Q: Are you creating valuable content that is strategically used? Think of yourself as tomorrow’s newest star. Q: How do you think about yourself? It’s a matter of survival to think beyond your current successes and constantly look for ways to create new ones so that you are never limited to any one platform or even one topic. Do this by creating a personal brand so powerful it transcends even your passion! Q: How are you forward looking when it comes to constantly creating new successes? (When it comes to social media) you are in complete control of how the world sees you, how often, and in what context. Remember: in complete control. Use this privilege to the max for your success! (Some who have made it) said that the experiences and skills they gained in their former jobs – even the ones they hated – were e...

In his book  Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything  by Tim Irwin, he says there are five steps to wrecking your life, or as he would say  derailing your life.  They are: Lack of self-awareness.  When a person doesn’t know what could bring them down, they don’t know what their weaknesses are. Is it money, greed, power, sex, lust, a bigger house or car? What are they willing to trade their marriage, reputation, kids or future in for? If you don’t know that, you will be brought down. Arrogance or misguided confidence.  when a person sees someone wreck their life and says, “That could never happen to me.” This is when a person sins once and says, “I already did it once, what is one more time?” They have supreme confidence they can stop whenever or take back control whenever they choose, or, that it won’t destroy their life. Missed warning signals.  This might be close calls in getting caught, being late to work for staying up too late, convictio...

I recently got a message from a former student in my IGCSE English class, a random message because she just happened to think of me. That in itself touched me but what got my attention was this sentence:   I heard someone talking about hating their school’s English classes and I did too- in my IGCSE years. I only enjoyed my English classes when you were my teacher haha! My interest piqued, I asked her if she could pinpoint what made my English class enjoyable. Her answer blew me away and unknown to her, revealed several key principles for making any class interesting. She mentioned the books I introduced for Literature (reading and discussion). I had requested that a classic but boring literature book be replaced with a book I believed was relevant and challenging, addressing ideas young people need to face and talk about. The book? Tuesday With Morrie by Mitch Albom. "That's not literature material!" you may exclaimed but it made reading interesting and the lessons in ...