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Failure to Finish 4 key factors to guide unmotivated students toward academic success By C. Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Have you ever wondered why so many students get close to the ‘finish line’ of a semester or even graduation and then fail to finish? Parents, teachers, guidance counselors and tutors can be cheering for a student to...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 4-16-12 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for wmkv 89.3 fm and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker and on Twitter, Facebook and...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

The hoopla over Oprah's debut on Twitter was ridiculous, but surprisingly divided. Celebrity tweets often feel more like personal ads, mini commercials (don't forget to catch my show on ---!) or little snippets of information carefully orchestrated to build admirers. Twitter is a community and expects interaction. Celebrities often act like they are above it, engaging only with other celebs. But a...

I have a life-long history of learning everything the hard way. I've even mentioned it with a perverse sense of pride in conversation. Dozens of times. Mary Chapin Carpenter's song, "The Hard Way" from her album "Come on Come on" was my anthem for about a decade. But this morning brought a new appreciation for taking the time to read the instruction manual once in a while before embarking into...

In 1937, Ruth Hamilton traveled to Europe to visit family in Denmark and to embark on a fact-finding mission for her radio program in the States. Decades later, she wrote about her life-changing trip in her autobiography, "The Hamilton Saga." GrowingBolder.com is bringing you exclusive excerpts from the book. In part 1, she came face-to-face with the son of a famous painter. In...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

When you walk the roads of the Internet, you will learn about different cultures. One day I learned about blessings, something I thought only a pope did. Or a priest perhaps. I realized I don’t know much about what drives religious people. The importance of prayers was not very known to me, but as people do find comfort in prayers, I want to know more. As a toddler, before my family...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...