Tina & Steve's Wedding - June 24, 2012

Tina and Steve's Wedding - June 24, 2012

BDPA Cleveland SITES Award/Graduation Program

Inspirations for Fri., June 15, 2012

Inspirations for Fri., June 15, 2012
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If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.
- Robert Orben, Writer
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If you can take care of the internal, you can easily take care of the external. Then you can avoid the infernal and latch on to the eternal.
- Joseph Lowery
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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, every day, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day you're going to actually live.
- Elizabeth Edwards

Inspirations for Thur., June 14, 2012

Inspirations for Thur., June 14, 2012
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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
- Denis Waitley, Speaker and Author
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What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves, the meaning of wholeness.
- David Bohm
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Below: Photos from 11th Annual Diversity Conference held at The Ohio Aerospace Institute

 

Inspirations for Wed., June 13, 2012

Inspirations for Wed., June 13, 2012
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Someday, all you'll have to light your way will be a single ray of faith--and it will be enough.
- Kobi Yamada
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
- Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943, Author and Illustrator
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

Inspirations for Tue., June 12, 2012

Inspirations for Tue., June 12, 2012
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Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
- Jerry Rice, Football Player
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Man is never nearer the Divine than in his compassionate moments.
- Joseph H. Hertz
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
- Claude McDonald

Inspirations for Mon., June 11, 2012

Inspirations for Mon., June 11, 2012
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies
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There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west. The only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know. We please the fleeting guest. And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919, Author and Poet

Taylor Green Book Signing - Wed., June 20, 2012

Taylor Green Book Signing - Wed., June 20, 2012

You REALLY want to have your face in the place!

Location:  Improve Consulting and Training Group Training Facility

4600 Euclid Ave, Suite 320, Cleveland, OH 44103

Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Time: 5pm-8pm (open doors, with a program from 5:30pm-5:45pm)

The flow of events will be as follows:

5:00 pm - Networking/book purchases 

5:30pm
Welcome - Victor Whitelock (Improve Internship Manger) and Jeanette Haynes Gordon (2012-2013 NBMBAA LOT Chair)

Comments - Allyson Sharp (365 Ways to Improve, Editor, Columbus, OH)

Words about the book - Taylor Green

Special Message from George Davis, Chicago, Author


5:45-8:00 pm - Signing /book purchases

The book will be sold for $15 + tax

Boys Grow Up When Men Show Up

Inspirations for Fri., June 8, 2012

Inspirations for Fri., June 8, 2012
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The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles&are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.
- William Matthew
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Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, "I did that."
- Michael Josephson, Law Professor and Speaker

Inspirations for Thur., June 7, 2012

Inspiration for Thur., June 7, 2012

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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
- Farmer's Almanac
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I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.' I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
- Anna Quindlen, Author and Journalist
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When you want something in life, you have to focus.
- Rosalyn McMillan

Inspirations for Wed., June 6, 2012

Inspirations for Wed., June 6, 2012
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens, 1913-1980, Olympic Gold Medalist
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
- Nathaniel Emmons
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BELOW:  Jasmine Hudson's Graduation from Cleveland's East Tech - Short Video Playlist of the Beginning and End of the Program (Less than five minutes total)

Inspirations, Tue., June 5, 2012

Inspirations for Tue., June 5, 2012
Below: Jasmine Hudson's Graduation from East Tech (Cleveland, Ohio)
ABOVE: Jasmine Hudson's Graduation from Cleveland's East Tech High School
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The start is what stops most people.
- Don Shula, Former NFL Coach

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A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
- John Maxwell, Author and Speaker

Hey Neighbor

Inspirations for Mon., June 4, 2012

Inspirations for Mon., June 4, 2012
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- John Homer Miller, 1910-1944, Teacher
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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
- Harrison Ford, Actor