nting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice receWhen I graduated from high school, my oldest brother (both brothers are actually older than I am but this brother is also the oldest of the lot), wrote in my year book; "Never learn everything about one thing but at least one thing about every thing." This was sage advice from someone who was in his late 20's to a 16 year old. I set out to do exactly that. To this day, I have an exasperating interest in too many things. I am just as inquisitive in nature now as I was as a toddler.

I love languages and diversity in cultures, customs and traditions. I so adore the deep old-growth forests, Blue Ridge Mountains and stormy seacoasts of the South Carolina landscape and the picturesque and dangerously exciting peaks of the Swiss Alps. I recall the lyrics to one of Barbra Streisand's songs. I'm unsure of the title but it is on the soundtrack from "A Star is Born." It starts like this: "I want to learn what life is for, I don't want much, I just want more, ask what I want and I will say, I want Everything, Everything." Yes...that's it. The title is "Everything." It's a great [old] song. And in wanting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice recei

ce from someone who was in his late 20's to a 16 year old. I set out to do exactly that. To this day, I have an exasperating interest in too many things. I am just as inquisitive in nature now as I was as a toddler.

I love languages and diversity in cultures, customs and traditions. I so adore the deep old-growth forests, Blue Ridge Mountains and stormy seacoasts of the South Carolina landscape and the picturesque and dangerously exciting peaks of the Swiss Alps. I recall the lyrics to one of Barbra Streisand's songs. I'm unsure of the title but it is on the soundtrack from "A Star is Born." It starts like this: "I want to learn what life is for, I don't want much, I just want more, ask what I want and I will say, I want Everything, Everything." Yes...that's it. The title is "Everything." It's a great [old] song. And in wanting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice rece

aditions. I so adore the deep old-growth forests, Blue Ridge Mountains and stormy seacoasts of the South Carolina landscape and the picturesque and dangerously exciting peaks of the Swiss Alps. I recall the lyrics to one of Barbra Streisand's songs. I'm unsure of the title but it is on the soundtrack from "A Star is Born." It starts like this: "I want to learn what life is for, I don't want much, I just want more, ask what I want and I will say, I want Everything, Everything." Yes...that's it. The title is "Everything." It's a great [old] song. And in wanting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice rece is on the soundtrack from "A Star is Born." It starts like this: "I want to learn what life is for, I don't want much, I just want more, ask what I want and I will say, I want Everything, Everything." Yes...that's it. The title is "Everything." It's a great [old] song. And in wanting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice recenting everything, I've wanted to learn something about everything as well. That can be tedious and all-consuming. Zig Ziglar says, "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Yikes! Did that ever contradict the sage advice received as an impressionable teen from her big brother?

I discovered how to strike a balance between the advice given from each of my well-meaning advisors. In harnessing my brother's advice, I have not once complained of boredom. In adhering to Zig Ziglar's advice, I am known as an expert in my work and I'm having the time of my life!

You may wonder how am having the time of my life just because of those two quotes. It's the third quote that puts it all into a "time of my life" package. Ol' Zig strikes again. The third quote that changed my life paraphrases a biblical scripture. Zig Ziglar said: "You can have anything you want in life if you find a way to help enough other people get what they want in life." What this tells me is my destiny is linked with some unknowns out there who want something out of life and I feel compelled to help them get it! This quote interprets what is meant by, "...And the second is like unto it: Love thy neighbour as thyself." When we love someone, we unselfishly help them. In helping them, we will be rewarded unselfishly for it.

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