"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover".
                                                                                            - By Mark Twain

While we wait for insight on how to become successful in life by three of our leading educators - Professors who are successful in their own field (Coming in April 2002), we are going to be quoting from the famous book: "Signposts on the Road to Success" by E.W. Kenyon. Courtesy of Kenyon's Publishing Society, enjoy the wisdom of this great teacher here presented:

TOPIC: ALL HAVE ABILITY

I did not believe this once. EW Kenyon
I thought that there were but a few who had real ability, and that the rest of us belonged to the mob.
I venture to say that it will be almost impossible to pick out a single person in any large establishment who does not have the ability along some line that could make him outstanding if it were developed.
I am dictating this little article for the ambitious man or woman -not for the man who is too lazy to develop what is in him, but for the man who is unsatisfied with anything but the best.
As I study men and women, I am convinced of this: There are very few who have developed to the limit the possibilities within them.
There is no overdevelopment.
Many people are in the wrong place in life.
They have no gift for the thing they are trying to do.
They are doing it simply to get by.
There is room and a salary waiting for the man who has ability and is willing to put hard work into it.
Choose your work, rather than have the work in which you have no interest, thrust upon you.
Find out what you can do, what you like best to do.
I don't care who you are. I don't care what your handicaps are. They have never made a handicap that could hold any man down who had in him the yeast to rise.
Most of the people who are at the bottom are at the bottom because they will to stay there. That is where they belong.
It is a hard thing to say, but it is true. I am now what I willed to be through all these years.
The first thing to do is to find out what you want. Set your eyes on the goal. Then fight for it. There must be an objective.
When you find that objective, set your compass and sail for that star.

DR. E.W. KENYON
(1867-1948)

THE GREAT 101 LIST OF THINGS TO DO WITHOUT DRUGS OR GETTING DRUNK COMPILED BY "PROUD" DISPLAYED IN MANY OF OUR CLASSROOMS IS PRESENTED HERE COURTESY OF PROUD. WE DO ENCOURAGE KIDS TO PLAY CHESS. HOWEVER, KIDS HAVE TOO MANY OTHER THINGS TO DO WITHOUT GETTING INTO TROUBLE. HERE ARE THE FAMOUS 101 THINGS TO DO BELOW. ALSO DO NOT FORGET TO VISIT PROUD HOMEPAGE FOR MORE GOOD STUFF.
0. Play Chess
1. Go to a movie
2. Watch a video at home
3. Play football
4. Go to the bookstore and browse
5. Go to a coffee house and hang out.
6. Go bowling.
7. Hang out with your friends
8. Picture Scavenger Hunt
9. Spend time with your siblings.
10. Take pictures of funny poses of yourself and friends.
11. Go Dancing.
12. Have an Ice Cream party.
13. Play billiards.
14. Play a board game
15. Play Twister.
16. Go to a museum.
17. Go to COSI
18. Go to the theater and see a play.
19. Join a youth group.
20. Explore and join different group at OSU.
21. Get your friends together and write poetry.
22. Catch up on E-Mails.
23. Browse the Internet.
24. Dress up and go out to a nice dinner.
25. Play in the rain and jump in puddles.
26. Roll down a hill.
27. Make snow angles.
28. Go Sledding.
29. Make snow men and women.
30. Get on a COTA bus and see where it takes you.
31. Kidnap a friend and go out to breakfast.
32. Go on a scavenger hunt.
33. Go window shopping.
34. Color w/ crayons.
35. Create something new
36. Plan a road trip.
37. Make a collage.
38. Draw with chalk on the sidewalk.
39. Go camping.
40. Take quizzes on line.
41. Swing at a park.
42. Learn new dances.
43. Go to the zoo.
44. Visit your old high school.
45. Go pierce something or get a tatoo.
46. Message night.
47. Dress up stereotymatically and go out.
48. Go jump in a lake.
49. Start a collection.
50. Veg / Relax
 		  51. Watch TV
52. Do your homework!
53. Laundry part at the laundromat.
54. Dare each other to act on dreams.
55. Go Swimming.
56. Do Yoga.
57. Go watch the sunset.
58. Go Ice Skating.
59. Go to a shooting range.
60. Go take a walk.
61. Paintball fight.
62. Go play laser tag.
63. Go to chuckee-cheeses.
64. Play or listen to music.
65. Cook yourself a meal.
66. Bake cookies.
67. Have a theme party. (80's, 60's, 90's)
68. Go fly a kite.
69. Go Sky diving.
70. Go on a canoe trip down a river.
71. Go people watching at an airport or mall.
72. Hangout with your pets
73. Play with Playdo or molding clay.
74. Use finger paints.
75. Write a song or story collection.
76. Play dress up and go out of town.
77. Get together with your friends and do make-overs.
78. Spa night.
79. Give each other haircuts.
80. Have a video game tournament.
81. Play ping pong.
82. Draw on each other.
83. Play hide-in-seek in the dark.
84. Play capture the flag.
85. Go climb a tree.
86. Read a book.
87. Learn to knit.
88. Tell ghost stories in a candle lit room.
89. Go to a new restaurant.
90. Go on a bike ride.
91. Go rollerblading.
92. Call your parents.
93. Cuddle with your special someone.
94. Clean up your room.
95. Go shopping.
96. Look at old family photos.
97. Call up an old friend on the phone.
98. Go to a sporting event.
99. Go to a concert.
100. Have a pillow fight.
101. JOIN PROUD!
 

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