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50 Stress Relievers That Take 5 Minutes Or Less | The Emotion Machine - StumbleUpon. Beware: How to Keep Your Inner Fire Hot as F**k | Muscle Revelation. “People that are hungry are willing to do things today the others won’t do, in order to have things tomorrow others won’t have..” That is one of my fav quotes. Hunger – the secret weapon of every UNDERDOG who despite numerous obstacles at the end prevails.

It’s such a crushing emotion capable to raise you from the gutter and put you at the top. These “hungry” people are rare and more often than not – extremely successful. Motivation is divided in two: intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external). The external is easy – it’s about outer factors that may have influence on you like talking with inspiring people, listening to music, watching motivational movies/videos, reading books, autobiographies, quotes, and etc. The internal one on the other hand is quite interesting and much more powerful. After all, what’s the point of living average?? Realists are blind for opportunities. It’s not your fault if you’ve suddenly woken up in the average safe realist category. It’s not easy. - StumbleUpon. English Pronunciation. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. English Pronunciation by G. Source Breaking News: Fake News Special! Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2 - StumbleUpon.

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25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer :: Tips :: The 99 Percent - StumbleUpon. When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves?

1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. Find your best time of the day for writing and write. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Treat writing as a job. 10. 11. 12.