Rule 1: Ignite Desire – 7 Rules for the Road

January 3, 2012

7 Rules for the Road Video #1: Rule 1: Ignite Desire  DESIRE. Look around. There is only one corner of the universe that you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley Remember to ignite desire. The odds are against you. Remember, only 1 in 9 changes even when faced [...]

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Defining Moments

January 3, 2012

My Orange Duffel Bag Video #11: Sam Bracken: Defining Moments After my freshman year at Georgia Tech, everything turned out great, right? Uh, Wrong. Six months later, everything changes for me. My mother is in a car accident and left in a coma. I remember getting a call from my younger brother, and he told [...]

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Beating All Odds

January 2, 2012

My Orange Duffel Bag Video #10: Sam Bracken: Beating All Odds Out of the millions of high school football players, only one-tenth of 1% of kids that play football in high school score Division 1-A Football Scholarships. I was fortunate enough to do that. But there’s a story behind it. I remember, as I was [...]

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What Normal Looks Like?

January 2, 2012

My Orange Duffel Bag Video #9: Sam Bracken: What Normal Looks Like? After that day in the dirt at Woodbury Junior High School, I knew I wanted to change, I just didn’t know how to change. Interestingly enough, I was in Special Ed classes in school. I had a third grade reading level, and I [...]

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Not Like Them

January 1, 2012

My Orange Duffel Bag Video #8: Sam Bracken: Not Like Them As a young person, I was big for my age, and I used to love to run everywhere. My parents used to call it nervous energy. Today, they call it “generalized anxiety”, and they give you medication for it. It was the way that [...]

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Strange and Unusual

January 1, 2012

My Orange Duffel Bag Video #7: Sam Bracken: Strange and Unusual I think I was about eight or nine years old when I realized that things were a bit strange and unusual in my household. Picture this: Las Vegas, Nevada, it’s August, 117 degrees, and me and my friend Johnny are out in our front desert. In [...]

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