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Growing Bolder Article Misconceptions About AgingPosted May 20, 2008, 12:50 pm Growing Bolder asks leaders, thinkers, writers, life coaches, entertainers and role models to weigh in on issues affecting our lives.Our question is: What Common Misconception About Aging Do You Wish You Could Dispel? Pat PacielloThe biggest misconception about aging is that you must give up your youthful...

When I signed on to my home on Growing Bolder today, I saw this quote and knew the GB folks were talking to me."Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination...

You’ve heard of paying it forward? It’s the concept that if someone does something nice for you, you do something nice for someone else. Then that person will do something nice for another person, and so on, and so on. Instead of paying the original “gifter” back, you start a cycle of giving that continues. It can be something huge: donating blood so that many people receive your...

I have been a musician for over 40 years, and started playing professionally when I was 14, a few...

If you’ve ever been denied credit, like me, you remember the first time it happened and how you...

9 Tips Before THEY Amputate Your Legs Below the Knee! By Dan Wimer, RN, MPLC I am a RN with 22 years of IV knowledge and I have been in the hospital 3 times in the past year. Two of the times I was on the receiving end of poor nursing care. The first stay, in May of 2009, the nurses managed to infect me with Staphylococcus aureus. The nurses at the hospital did not follow established...

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