Let’s say you have an idea that you’re passionate about and you know it would prove beneficial not just to you but everyone else around you. You know deep down in your heart that it is the best way to go. You know with complete conviction that it is the most logical choice there is to make.
But no matter how valuable or helpful your proposition is, it will never happen unless you can persuade other people to support it and implement it. You’ll never make progress in life if you can’t gain the cooperation of other people. With so many distractions all around us, your ability to sway people to your ideas is equally as important as the quality of the ideas themselves. In many cases, the power to persuade is clearly the top determinant of success.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a human rights icon, one of the world’s most renowned orators, and the most prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. He fought for a cause that he felt was worth dying for.
As a result, millions of people from diverse backgrounds were able to reach a level of harmony and unity that wasn’t possible at any other time in history. Life would be dramatically different if it weren’t for his timeless influence and decisive determination.
King’s major achievements:
- In 1955, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Though King was arrested during this campaign, it led to a United States District Court ruling that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.
- In 1957, he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which is an American civil rights organization. He served as its first president.
- In 1963, he led a march in Washington D.C. where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. It was there that he raised global public awareness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.
- In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination.
- As a result of King’s organized and led marches, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act were enacted into the law of the United States.
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There comes a time in our lives where we face problems and hardships that we don’t have any control over. A phenomenon larger than ourselves shapes almost impossible obstacles that we can’t overcome through normal and direct means. The more we try to resist them, the more power they seem to have over us and the more we try to accept them, the more complacent we seem to become.
If you’ve ever had to deal with a situation like this, remember that you are not alone. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. That’s the way it is and that’s the way it will always be. We all have to suffer sometimes because we live in an inconvenient world dictated by the laws of nature.
“It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare
The laws of the universe don’t care about how adversities and setbacks might affect us or how we might feel about them. What happens all around us in real life happens dispassionately and unapologetically. In an objective sense, it just is. There’s no guarantee that life will always be easy.
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I know that losing weight can be a difficult and arduous task if you don’t have the right facts. There’s so much information out there but most of it is either misleading or fails to get to the point. Eating less is good but how do you measure how much less to eat? Exercise is beneficial but what if you’re counteracting its affects without you even knowing it?
Basically, above all else, there is only one way to lose weight: Consume less calories than you burn. That is numero uno. Any diet plan that deviates from this basic point will inevitably lead to failure. And fortunately, there are only a handful of things you need to do to achieve that basic goal.
Losing weight is easier than most people think. And this article will cover how I lost 80 pounds and why anyone else, no matter who they are or how their life situation is, can do the same thing.
