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The Coaching With Results Monthly Newsletter
Self Improvement Through Stories Sept 2003
http://www.CoachingWithResults.com/
"Where We Achieve Success, Your Success"
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1. Inspirational Quote Of The Month
2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)
3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure
4. Humor
5. How to recommend our newsletter to a friend
6. About CoachingWithResults.com
7. How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter
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Editors note: This Newsletter has one Goal: To provide
quality self help stories that make a difference. It is
built on the premise that "Content is King". We hope you
will enjoy it, and please pass it on to a friend, because we
thats the only way we will be able to reach out to a large
audience.
We thank you in advance,
The Editor
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THEME OF THE MONTH: THE POWER OF A FRIEND?
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Section 1. Quote of the month
"A true friend is someone that knows all about your
deficiencies and loves you anyways"
Author: Unknown
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Section 2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)
The Power of a Friend
One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a
kid from my class was walking home from school. His name
was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his
books.
I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his
books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd."
I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football
game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged
my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw a
bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him,
knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping
him so he landed in the dirt.
His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the
grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw
this terrible sadness in his eyes. My heart went out to
him. So, I jogged over to him and as he crawled around
looking for his glasses, I saw a tear in his eye. As I
handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks.
They really should get lives." He looked at me and
said, "Hey thanks!" There was a big smile on his face.
It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.
I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he
lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked
him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone
to private school before now. I would have never hung
out with a private school kid before. We talked all
the way home, and I carried his books.
He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. I asked him if
he wanted to play football on Saturday with me and my
friends. He said yes. We hung all weekend and the more
I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him. And my friends
thought the same of him.
Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge
stack of books again. I stopped him and said, "Damn boy,
you are gonna really build some serious muscles with
this pile of books everyday!" He just laughed and
handed me half the books. Over the next four years,
Kyle and I became best friends. When we were seniors,
began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown,
and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be
friends, that the miles would never be a problem.
He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business
on a football scholarship. Kyle was valedictorian of his
class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He
had to prepare a speech for graduation. I was so glad it
wasn't me having to get up there and speak.
Graduation day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He was
one of those guys that really found himself during high
school. He filled out and actually looked good in
glasses. He had more dates than me and all the girls
loved him! Boy, sometimes I was jealous.
Today was one of those days. I could see that he was
nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back
and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!" He looked
at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one)
and smiled. "Thanks," he said.
As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and
began. "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped
you make it through those tough years. Your parents,
your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly
your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being
a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them.
I am going to tell you a story."
I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told
the story of the first day we met. He had planned to
kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had
cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do
it later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked
hard at me and gave me a little smile. "Thankfully, I
was saved. My friend saved me from doing the
unspeakable."
I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome,
popular boy told us all about his weakest moment.
I saw his mom and dad looking at me and smiling that
same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I
realize its depth.
Source Unknown
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Section 3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure
Andrew Carnegie worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory
for $1.20 a week
Andrew Carnegie became one of the worlds richest men and
greatest philanthropists, supporting education, public
libraries, and the world peace movement.
This was a Book Excerpt from
The Road to Success is Paved with Failure
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Section 4. Humor
There were two evil brothers. They were rich and used
their money to keep their ways from the public eye. They
even attended the same church and looked to be perfect
religion-ists. Then, their pastor retired and a new one
was hired. Not only could he see right through the
brothers’ deception, but he also spoke well and true, and
the church started to swell in numbers. A fund-raising
campaign was started to build a new assembly. All of a
sudden, one of the brothers died. The remaining brother
sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and
handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying
for the new building. “I have only one condition,” he
said. “At his funeral, you must say my brother was a
saint.” The pastor gave his word and deposited the check.
The next day at the funeral, the pastor did not hold
back. “He was an evil man,” he said. “He cheated on his
wife and abused his family.” After going on in this vein
for a small time, he concluded with: “But, compared to
his brother, he was a saint.”
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