212°: the extra degree (2:49 min. video)

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212°: the extra degree, is a powerful metaphor and a mindset that can help each achieve greater personal and professional success. To understand the power of 212°, remember this law of science:

at 211 degrees, water is hot.

at 212 degrees, it boils.

and with boiling water comes steam …

and with steam, you can power a train.

Applying one extra degree of temperature to water means the difference between something that is simply very hot and something that generates enough force to power a machine.
It is also a reminder for each to give the extra effort in every task, action and endeavor we undertake.

212° reinforces that seemingly small things can make tremendous differences as individual contributors and overall success.

Steve Ventura

Lost Generation: Live Inspired (1:45 min. video)

Can we reverse the destructive changes in our world?

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Watch this video for a bit of insight and inspiration in making it happen!
Ending will surprise you.



Live Inspired!

Life Secrets

Choices: Two Wolves Inside of Me (video)

Life is a series of choices. Where we are right now can all be linked back to every choice that we've made in our lives to date.

Every day we all make countless choices and every single one of them counts.
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Simple Truths

FBI's Compiled List of Warning Signs

Cullen, Dave. 2009. Columbine. New York: Hachette Book Group

There is no profile.

Most perps shared a crucial experience: 98% had suffered a loss or failure they perceived as serious---such as getting fired, blowing a test, getting dumped.  This trauma may set anger in motion:
81% confided their intentions,
50%+ shared with at least two others. 
Danger skyrockets when threats are direct and specific, identify a motive, and indicate work performed to carry it out. 
Melodramatic outbursts do not increase the risk.

FBI’s compiled list of warning signs, include symptoms of both psychopathy and depression:

- Manipulation

- Intolerance

- Superiority

- Narcissism

- Alienation

- Rigidity

- Lethargy

- Dehumanization of others

- Externalizing blame

FBI added one final caution: individual matching most of its warning signs was more likely to be suffering from depression or mental illness than planning an attack.  Most matching the criteria needed help, not incarceration.

Greensboro Four Share Lessons with Students, Greensboro, NC

After a supporter stated she was so proud of their actions: "I learned a lesson for life...It made a terrific impression on me...don't ever stereotype anybody in this life because of what color they are, how old they are, how they might speak, or how they might look because about them you don't know."
Franklin McCain

"It's always good to do things together.  Just don't jump out there and do something cause you think it's good."
Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.)

You never really do anything in life by yourself.  Students who participated in the sit-ins faced heavy demands and lived with the threat of being arrested, jailed and physically attacked.
"Students then did something very noble.  They gave of themselves."
Joseph McNeil

"It's not about age.  It's about what you can do as youth.  You have a voice, and your voice is powerful."
David Richmond Jr., son of late David L. Richmond

Shared by Jonnelle Davis, News & Record, Greensboro, NC  2-2-2012

Woolworth's Sit-In, Greensboro, NC: Essay Prompt: Feb. 1, 2012

"What would you have done if you could travel in a time machine and be at the Sit-In with the Greensboro Four on February 1, 1960?"


"Even though I'm only 13, I would sit at the counter with them and tell them I was proud of them. I would have towels ready if somebody tried to pour a milkshake on them.  Also I would tell them to stay strong because someday it's all going to be worth it."

Shared by Educator Meredith Newlin

Don't Let Other People's Opinion...Run You (1:46 min. video)

Many let other people's opinions bring us down. When we give value to a negative opinion someone may have of us, we lose our power, become weak and settle for mediocrity.

Watch Jack Canfield tell this true story of what happens when you let someone else's opinion of you... RUN YOU.


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