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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Terrible
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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