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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

Success

While there are physical reminders of his disease, he’s able to control it most of the time with medication and a healthy lifestyle. That led to an investigation in 2002 as to whether some environmental factor played a role. In his suit jacket and jeans, he still looks younger than his years (he turns 62 in June).

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

The very next year, she took to the pool at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and won not only two events for athletes with physical challenges, but also became the first amputee athlete to qualify for the final of a regular event when she swam the 800-meter freestyle. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. I chose the name, bought the website URL, found a website designer, scripted the first dozen episodes, sourced videographers and reached out to my dream list of people I’d love to interview. Just over a year later, our little Texan, Matthew Raymond, arrived.

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Summit at Sea 2011 – The new trend in business is impact

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Better World Books was founded in 2002 to address this problem by reselling these otherwise forgotten books online – an incredibly successful business was born. Individuals who had mastered both success, phenomenal lifestyle design AND social impact were left right and center. In other words, books bound for landfills.

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