The Power of Choice

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The Power of Choice
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• Perceive
• Purpose
• Passion
• Pursue
• Put Away

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• Perceive (to see - Vision)

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• Purpose

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• There is a to-do item in the earth that needs
  MY attention
• It has MY name on it
• It wont get done properly if I dont do it

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• Flyboys

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DISEASE
HUNGER
WAR
RACISM
POVERTY
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Passion
Something I WANT, thats worthwhile and worthy,
and go after it
with all my might.
Pursue
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Barbara Hillary
Reached the NORTH POLE at 75 years old!
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Matthew Webb
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The potential of YOUR brain

The only muscle that basically has no limits to
which it can be stretched
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• Can memorize EVERY BOOK
  in any normal
  size library

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Mary Fasano
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• PERSEVERE

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• COURAGE will be needed
• Because
• disCOURAGEment will be present

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The men who signed the Declaration
of
Independence Persevered in
the face of terrible hardship
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• NINE of the fifty six fought and died from wounds
  or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
• FIVE were captured by the British as traitors,
  and tortured before they died.
• TWELVE had their homes ransacked and burned
• TWO lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary
  Army.
• ONE had two sons captured.

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• Thomas McKean
• so hounded by the British that he was forced to
  move his family almost constantly
• served in the Congress without pay
• his family was kept in hiding
• His possessions were taken from him

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Francis Lewis

• His home and properties destroyed...
• The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within
  a few months

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• JOHN HART
• Driven from his wifes bedside as she was dying
• Their 13 children fled for their lives
• For more than a year he lived in forests and
  caves
• Returned home and found his wife dead
• He died a few weeks later from exhaustion and a
  broken heart

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• Dillery
• Hall
• Clymer
• Walton
• Gwinett
• Heyward
• Ruttledge
• Middleton

Soldiers and vandals looted their properties
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Put Away
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• PUT AWAY
• Thoughts
• Attitudes
• Actions
• that keep me from reaching my goal

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Area of brain that makes decisions
GREG
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• Put away
• ANGER

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• Medical and psychological research has shown that
  no matter how much you exercise or eat correctly
• you are putting yourself at risk if you do not
  manage your anger.

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In a moment of anger

• excessive sweating
• Chills
• severe headaches
• Migraines
• chest pains

• muscle tension
• grinding of teeth
• ringing in the ears
• Flushing
• higher blood pressure

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• ANGER can actually reduce the heart's ability to
  properly pump blood.

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• The results of prolonged anger can harm the
  body's largest organ, the skin.
• People who hold in their anger often have ACNE!
• Researchers have studied the relationship of
  anger and skin disorders and discovered that when
  a person resolves his anger
• skin disorders dramatically improve.

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• Dr Victor Frankl

Every freedom known to man can be taken
from him
Except the last of the human freedoms
Which is the mans freedom to choose his own
attitude in any given set of circumstances