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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “adversity”

 

• Book of Mormon Facebook page: Doing hard things for the Lord

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 112
  If you are interested to see what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have to say about the Book of Mormon , about faith in Jesus Christ, about how the gospel has helped them, take a look at this Book of Mormon Facebook page . A recent question caught our attention. The responses were very ...
  13 hours ago

• Who is your Hero?

  
  Techno-Guru - Latest Technology News India, Latest Breaking Bollywood News of India, Online Shopping — Authority: 133
  Heroes have been part of our psyche ever since humans started passing down learnings from one generation to another by telling stories. These guiding figures have helped us remember all that is commendable about us as a species. They are also someone whose example we try to follow in times of adversity or temptation. ...
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• Creating the Anomaly

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 95
    Reality is full of failure. And part of the appeal to ‘Reality TV’ is the frisson of expectation where it could all go wrong in front of millions. An essential ingredient to the sub-genre of ‘Talent Shows’ is the judging of these failures when they explode. It’s not the showcasing of the winners. ...
  2 days ago

• Blowup

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Not a good couple of days in the history of the American space program. Yet of all technological failures in history, perhaps none focused the lens on the dynamics of failure that the Challenger tragedy. Malcolm Gladwell explored the incident and equally profound aftermath in his essay ‘ Blowup’ ...
  4 days ago

• Read for Charity: Helping People Help Themselves

  
  Standing For Something — Authority: 100
  Guest contributor, Becky Chapman, is one amazing woman!  As if she doesn’t have enough to do between authoring her amazing blog, Rise Above Your Limits , mothering her 11 children, and pursuing her love of gardening–she has accepted a call to serve a service mission for her church with a special focus on ...
  4 days ago

• Failure Frontier

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Perhaps the pinnacle of scientific achievement, space travel, illustrates failures as dramatic at its triumphs. Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia. Most intriguing is that all three of these historical failures stemmed back to someone’s assumption that they wouldn’t fail. James Oberg, NBC Space Analyst, ...
  5 days ago

• Soul Surfer

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Happy Australia Day mates! Australia is just as full of poisonous biting things as it is of cheery sunshine. In fact, recently Australia is suffering an unprecedented rash of shark attacks. They typically get about 3 attacks each year, but they have had that many in the past 3 weeks already in 2012! ...
  6 days ago

• Is It an Obstacle or an Opportunity?

  
  Michael Hyatts Blog — Authority: 632
  If you want to improve the quality of your life or business, planning is essential. You have to be honest about your current reality, envision a better future, and then create a roadmap for getting from one to the other. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here . But having a ...
  1 week ago

• GE Whiz

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
  Among the corporate results announced last week was that dragon on the corporate landscape, GE. No stranger to the concept of embracing failure as I have already posted about on their leader emeritus Jack Welch . Welch’s protégée Jeffrey Immelt carries on the tradition as reflected in a USA Today cover ...
  1 week ago

• Angels and Tender Mercies: I can do hard things

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 112
  ~by Michelle By the time I had arrived yesterday at the piano teacher’s house to pick up my son, I was exhausted. Mondays are crazy — running here and there doing school carpool and then piano and then dinner and then Family Home Evening. It’s not a bad crazy — I love being there with and for my family — ...
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• The Power of Being Underestimated

  
  Meant to be Happy — Authority: 444
  Note: This is a guest post by Alex Mangini who blogs at Life Notions. Adversity is a crazy thing. It comes in many forms, and at some point in your life — you will have to find ways to overcome it. Think of the last time the odds were against you. Maybe you were considered the underdog in a sporting event, or ...
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• Adversity Is The Packers’ Identity

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 498
  “Adversity reveals genius; prosperity conceals it.” – Horace Today, somewhere in America, football is being played on the gridiron, as two teams battle it out for the right to go to the Super Bowl.  The Green Bay Packers were expected…no, certified to be playing this weekend, if it weren’t for that loss ...
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• No Pain That We Suffer

  
  The Atonement Blog — Authority: 110
  No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our ...
  1 week ago

• Life Lessons from a Season-Ending Injury

  
  Ed Gerety's Dream Big Blog — Authority: 79
  “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” - Alexander Graham Bell Jenna playing soccer Some of the greatest lessons that a person can learn about life and leadership comes from playing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buzzwords

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    The lyrics of the rain dance song…Buzzwords. Hugh MacLeod has his own commentary for the climbers who hope to avoid the pain by scaling false dreams… “Success is never formulaic, but people are all too willing to forget that. Many people cling to the belief that if one acquires the lingo of ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Test of the New Year

  
  JR vs. BPD Blog — Authority: 101
  Ive got to admit: Ive had it pretty easy so far in 2012 with JR, version 2.0.... Beautiful weather, great things happening at work and just being a better person is easy without adversity.  While Ive been able to think positively and been in a great place, I hadnt really been tested until yesterday. Without getting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Embracing Falling

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Falling off a rock face would seem to be one example of preferred pain (if not the searing burn of muscles clinging for dear life). As I investigated Dynamic and Static Strength , I came upon a number of rock climbing pieces which underscored the importance of knowing how to ‘Fall’ Here is the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Preferred Pain

  
  Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage — Authority: 104
    Scott Adams embraces ‘ pain’ as well with his ‘ Preferred Pain Theory’ . I’ve excerpted a good chunk of it below because it so chock full of good failure embracing perspectives and his notion of embracing failure (‘pain’) as a fundamental motivator in life is as unconventional as it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Memoirs of a Run-away Model, Part 19

  
  Standing For Something — Authority: 100
  3 o’clock came quickly and after a morning at the market I made my way back to my apartment where the Bishop’s wife would pick me up and take me to safety.  Still fearful of my agency tracking me down and uncertain of their intentions, I carefully gathered my things from the building rooftop where I had made my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is It Trouble, Or Is It Just You?

  
  Meant to be Happy — Authority: 444
  The Empowerment Pack is out — for a three-day 90% off promotional only! Click on the banner below for details Note: This is a guest post by Stuart Mills of Unlock the Door where he is not only an amazing blogger with impressive wisdom and insight into the human condition, but is one outstanding guy as ...
  2 weeks ago

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