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Escaping the Dreamsuckers!
If you ever stop and listen to young children playing, they are always making up roles to play, identities and names to call themselves. Did you ever do that when you were a child? Do you remember when you stopped?
Did you ever have some adult, a parent or a teacher tell you that it was time to grow up and stop your pretending; your day dreaming? Well, they were WRONG!
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Precious Commodities
If I asked you to name some precious commodities, what would your answer be? Gold? Silver? Platinum? Would you think of jewels like diamonds or emeralds? How about money? Some might even say the almighty dollar. Would you agree with them? Which is the most precious? Would your answer be one of those?
Not mine. Anyone of those is a renewable resource which can be gained and also replaced if lost or stolen. For me, the most precious is non-renewable. It's one that we all have in a limited quantity and once it's gone, it's gone. I'm referring to...
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Emotional Power
Late one night a young man was walking home. Because of the hour, he opted to take a short cut through the cemetary. He was just about half way when he fell into a freshly dug grave that he hadn't seen. Once he regained his composure, he tried to climb out. And he tried. And he tried.
Every time he thought he'd found a hand and foothold, it would give way and he'd slide back to the bottom of the grave. After many attempts, and being quite frustrated, he...
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One Step at a Time
Do you remember a time in your childhood when elephant jokes were the "in" thing? Questions like, "How do you get down off an elephant?" Do you know? You don't get down off an elephant; you get down off a duck!Or how about this one? Why do elephants paint their toenails red? So they can hid in cherry trees. Ever see an elephant in a cherry tree? See. It works!
Then there was this one. How do you eat an elephant? One...
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Merri Macartney - Speaker, Author
LIVE LAUGH LEARN
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merri@merrimaccommunications.com
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Kincardine, Ontario
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