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Not an Ugly Duckling but a Beautiful Cygnet

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BEAUTIFUL intentions and good gestures does not always guarantee acceptance from people. Sometimes things go south no matter what we do. S o, you have the feeling that you dont belong? You are trying your best to blend in but its just so difficult. Everyone is different....or maybe you are different. W ith so much memories I have with my mom, one of the fondest I can vividly remember is the bed time story that she would always tell to my younger sister. The story is about the ugly duckling.  As my mom would narrate the story, this ugly duckling is having difficulty with her siblings and friends.  She is ugly and different, at least from their perspective.  She is being teased and sidelined all the time.  They put her down and she lost all her confidence in life.   A s they are growing up, this ugly duckling is becoming different than the rest of her siblings and peers.  Her ugly feathers are developing quite well and her neck...

Excellence is Not an Act

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D id you ever excel on some things but fail miserably in other things? If you do, then you are just acting.  Congratulation! You just discovered that you are an actor or actress and you’re good at it.  You take the role of that field where you excel and your acting on it quite fairly.  As long as you keep your position where you’re good at, then you deserve to be recognized as a great artist, a star in that field. H owever, excellence is not an act, it is a habit.  People are getting in the wrong notion that succeeding in certain area of their lives makes them successful and yet they fail miserably in other things.  This is the reason why a lot of so-called successful people are in depression or into drugs or living a double lives because they may have excelled in their profession or career and yet they lost their quest mostly in the most important things in their lives. R eal successful people excel in almost every area they put their hands int...

Health Tips 101 - Natural Antibiotic

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A re you having some health issues that you think you need some kind of medicine like antibiotic but you’re the type of person who does not want to take any synthetic drugs? You are sick but you’re afraid with those long list of side effects.  Others may not have time to go to the doctor or to some may not have spare money to pay the doctor and/or buy a medicine.  Let me share to you what an old and wise lady taught me. I went to her house to pick up something but she noticed that I was sluggish, less responsive and low in energy.  Being a former nurse, she immediately noticed that I was sick.  She asked me straight forward, “Are you sick?” and I answered affirmative.  She asked me if I took any medicine and I said, not really for I am not fond of taking these pharmaceutical products and she was very pleased.  She told me to sit down and she started to open her fridge and took some stuff and begin to prepare something.  I was not really paying...