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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Moments
Calling
Right
Fronts
Every
Front
Life
Emotional
Secret
Living
Reaction
Strong
Reactions
Found
Specific

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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