Birds and hang gliding were my two passions in life

Birds and hang gliding were my two passions in life. Luckily, I was able to combine them both
By John Stokes, Sevierville, TennesseeDecember, 1997

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I was waiting in the director's office of the large metropolitan zoo where I worked as an assistant curator. The director walked in, sat at his desk and got right to the point. "John, we're not in the business of doing sideshows with a disabled bird," he said emphatically. "I'm sorry, but this Osceola thing of yours has gotten out of hand."
I wanted to interrupt right then and remind him how far that one-winged bald eagle had come since someone had found him nearly dead two years earlier, his left wing blown apart by a poacher's gunshot, how popular he had become with the crowds that visited the eagle exhibit and what an education he had offered the public about this tragically endangered species. But it was my boss talking so I kept still.
"Find a new home for Osceola," he said. "That's an order."
I suppose he had a point. Our zoo was for healthy animals, and Osceola required some extra work. But on that hot day in 1984, I didn't want to hear all that. In my mind the message was clear: Listen, kid, you and that one-winged bird can just hit the road! Scram!
The work I did at the zoo combined my two abiding passions in life—animals and flight. Growing up, I earned the nickname "Bird Boy." One reason was my fascination with all feathered creatures, whether it was Green Sam, my pet parakeet, or a clutch of orphaned starlings in the garage. The other was my singular determination to fly, which I first attempted when I was five by leaping off an old sweet gum tree with a bedsheet parachute stuffed into one of my mama's big leather handbags. Fortunately a branch broke my fall.
By the time I hit my 20s I was an accomplished hang-glider pilot. The one-man glider, from which the pilot hangs in a harness underneath the kite-like superstructure, was as close as I could get to genuine avian flight without sprouting a pair of wings. Circling a couple of thousand feet above the earth gave me an incredible rush of freedom, peace, and beauty. My problems, like the ground below, seemed to slip away. I lived for that feeling.
But as I left the director's office and stormed back to Osceola's cage that day, life's troubles seemed to smash me to the ground. I was trying to get over a painful divorce. I couldn't afford to quit my job, yet I didn't want to be separated from Osceola, who felt like my one true friend. Lord, what am I going to do? I prayed, more as a lament than an actual question. That's why I was surprised to sense an answer immediately: Have faith. I will show you.
Show me what? I wondered, plucking a herring from a pail and feeding it to Osceola. He looked at me sharply as if to say, "Hey, what's up?" and I fed him another herring, wondering if he would be able to handle the move.
Al Cecere, a filmmaker who had recently formed the National Foundation to Protect America's Eagles (NFPAE), helped me find a home for Osceola at a predator rehabilitation-center in Nashville, Tennessee, several hundred miles away. I kept working my zoo job, visiting Osceola whenever I could. I wanted to marry the woman I was seeing, but she called it off. Another failed relationship, I thought. I couldn't help wondering why my life seemed to go in circles.
My only relief besides work was hang gliding high above the earth, where eagles fly. Like Osceola used to, I thought one day as I drifted on a lazy thermal, turning a slow spiral in the sky. It made me profoundly sad to think that because of his amputated wing Osceola could never experience the unbounded joy of flight again.
Or could he?
The inkling of an idea began to form. I had once heard of a man who had developed a slinglike arrangement to take his dog hang gliding with him. At the time it struck me as a little crazy but admirable. Could I do something similar for Osceola? He would love that. It was just an idea, but someday....
With the help of funds Al Cecere managed to raise, the rehab center was able to hire me, and I moved to Nashville in the spring of 1986, taking a drastic cut in pay but ecstatic to be reunited with Osceola. I also got to work designing a hang-gliding harness for Osceola. "Don't worry, old bird," I told him, "someday you're going to fly again."
The rehab center was barely staying afloat. Pretty soon I found myself in charge of it, a mixed blessing if ever there were one. There was nothing in the bank. To save on gas I bicycled five miles to work on a busy road. A sympathetic friend gave me a gross of green beans and peas, and one morning I was reduced to eating peas and beans for breakfast. It had come to that!
Later that day I did some serious praying while sitting on a rock in the brush behind the center. I was dead broke. My dream of taking Osceola aloft was in jeopardy; I barely had money to feed myself, let alone to go hang gliding. "God, up in the sky, close to you, I'm fine. But down here on earth troubles just seem to pile up. If something doesn't happen soon I'm going to have to shut this place down and move in with my mother!" Just as before, a response formed in my mind: Hold on. Something is about to happen.
A couple of seemingly little things did. The center got a financial shot in the arm from a sympathetic donor. And Al Cecere called and offered to hire me and give Osceola a home. "John, I have this vision of an eagle center on a mountainside. It would include a breeding and rehabilitation facility as well as educational programs. I'm trusting God will open the door for us."
I had been trusting for a while now. My tank was empty and I was running on spiritual fumes. Al and I displayed birds outside shopping malls and in local schools, giving talks about the endangered bald eagle and collecting donations one hard dollar at a time. Then misfortune struck again. I fractured my life arm in a hang-gliding accident. I couldn't help thinking how it was Osceola's left wing that had been amputated. "Maybe flying days are over for both of us now, buddy," I told him. Still, when I prayed, I sensed a response: Something big is about to happen. But when? How?
By spring of 1990 my arm had healed and I was hang gliding again, getting my tattered confidence back. Al had had a brainstorm. A friend, country singer James Rogers, was performing at Dollywood, entertainer Dolly Parton's theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. James helped Al get a meeting with the folks at the park, where he pitched the idea of an eagle exhibit and center, complete with daily birds-of-prey shows featuring—you guessed it—Osceola and me. Before I had a chance to tell him what a long shot the idea was, the folks at Dollywood were offering to build the NFPAE an $800,000 facility, including an eagle aviary, on a mountainside, just as Al had envisioned!
Something big certainly had happened, so big it couldn't have happened without God. Nine months later Al and I, 20 eagles including Osceola, along with assorted owls and hawks, moved to the Great Smoky Mountains—all part of the Wings of America bird show and Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, the largest eagle exhibit in the country. We were blessed with success almost immediately. Then, just as my life finally attained some stability, along came another whirlwind. Her name was Vikki; she was a singer in one of the other shows. Oh, no, I thought. I know where this will lead. Again, though, I heard the inner voice: Hold on a minute. This will be different.
It was. In 1994 Vikki and I were married. Things were finally coming together in my life. One more prayer remained to be answered. Lord, I am so grateful for all you have given me. Please help us find a way for Osceola to fly again.
By February of 1996 I finally came up with a safe and workable harness. Then we had to get Osceola accustomed to the strange contraption. People sure did gawk when we drove a pickup truck around and around the Dollywood parking lot carrying a mounted hang glider with a man and an eagle slung under it.
On a cool April morning in 1996 Al and I drove to the local hang-gliding airstrip, where we unloaded the glider and Osceola in his travel kennel. Doubts and prayers skirmished in my head as the hang glider was attached to a towline behind an ultra-light plane that would take us aloft. I strapped myself into my harness while Al placed Osceola into his, secured it on a reinforced metal bar and clipped him to my harness. "Today you're going to fly again, buddy," I told him. Al put his hand on my helmet and said a quick prayer. We were ready.
The ultralight revved its engine and we got a rumbling, rolling start. Osceola struggled a bit, startled by the motion. Easy, buddy. Easy. As we lifted off and gained altitude, though, Osceola relaxed. At 2,000 feet I released from the towline. The buzz of the engine faded as I banked into a calm wind. We were flying.
I saw Osceola's head was bent slightly downward, moving deliberately from side to side. I followed his gaze. He was tracking a couple of hawks flying 100 feet or so below us. Thirteen years had passed since he had been able to peer down on the lesser birds of the air. Maybe I was projecting human feelings onto him, but I could swear I saw something like a spark of regal pride in Osceola's piercing golden eyes.
An incredible sensation of warmth swelled my chest. I pulled into a slow turn, catching a thermal and spiraling upward gradually. I knew then my life hadn't been traveling in circles but in a spiral, ever higher day by day, drawn closer by faith to God.

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What is thanks offering?
This means "give thanks to God for His salvation toward us.

Now, I want to say I have a "Thankful heart"in my mind. How beautiful it is. I can feel His love and grace. He loves me and takes care of me.

Especially, God has blessed me with fullness of His grace upon my family.
After I phoned to my parents, now I am crying. It is because God blesses my family.
God has planned to bless my family and all my family have lived in His guidance.
My parents will go to prayer mountain tomorrow for 3 days. Even if they are 55 and 63, they have a humble mind. They pray every in the morining and serve God.
Nevertheless, they go to prayer mountain and fast in pray.
Why do they fast and pray for 4 day? How could they do that?
It is because my parents have a burning heart.
What a wonderful heart it is. How much God loves my parents.
I can say 100% with confidence this leads to my life with full of His blessing.

One of the graces we received from the God was the grace that turne the crisis into an opportunity.
We, by God’s grace, are overcoming the crisis very well. God allowed us to see the hidden opportunity in the time of crisis. And He poured His grace upon us so that we could turn the crisis into opportunity. It requires ability to transform a crisis into an opportunity. It is the power or ability of overcoming that we earnestly desire for. It is the precious ability to overcome the difficulties we are facing. And God enabled His praying people to overcome the difficulties by pouring them with the ‘power of overcoming.’

Today, when I praised God at the church, I cried without any reason.This crying came from His Love and Grace.
Thank you Lord thank you Lord.
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I will be with you

Joshua 1

5Joshua, I will always be with you and help you as I helped Moses, and no one will ever be able to defeat you. 6-8Long ago I promised the ancestors of Israel that I would give this land to their descendants. So be strong and brave! Be careful to do everything my servant Moses taught you. Never stop reading The Book of the Law [b] he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land. 9I've commanded you to be strong and brave. Don't ever be afraid or discouraged! I am the LORD your God, and I will be there to help you wherever you go.


EXODUS 33:13

"Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight."

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Churchill and Roosevelt: Britain and America in World War II

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Britain found itself in desperate straits in 1940. The day that Winston Churchill became primeminister, the German's launched their long-awaited Western offensive. This time Britain could probably not even survive without America. The result was the most remarkable political association of the 20th century that between the Churchhill and Fraklin Roosevelt. Thankfully for Western democracy, Roosevelt was prepared to risk the ire of the Isolatiinists to assist. Destroyers for bases and Lend Lease helped keep Britain in the War. Roosevelt dispatched Harry Hopkins to assess whether Britain could hold out. A few months before America entered the War, the relationship and Allied vission of a free democratic Europe was sealed with the Atlantic Charter. The two met aboard the Prince of Wales which had been battered by the Bismarck and was soon to be sunk by Japanese bombers. Churchill and Roosevelt had, however, forged a political relation between Britain and America that would not only prove to be a central element in the Allied victory in World War II, but literaly the salvation of Western civilization.
Winston Churchill
One historian was to refer to it as "the supreme partnership". Churchill was out of Government during most of the 1930s. As back-bencher, he warned of te danger posed by the NAZIs and German rearmament. He collected data on the German rearmament program that Prime Minister Baldwin and later Chamberlain preferred to ignore, chosing a policy of appeasement. Until Munich most Britains saw him as a maverick, has been politican. After Munich this began to change. Churchill and Roosevelt were two very different men both in character and outlook, but Roosevelt was aware of Churchill's long struggle to alert Britain to the dangers posed by Hitler and the NAZIs. The men were so different with such different vissions of their respective countries' interests that on has to wonder if any series of events short of the rise of Hitler would have drawn them together. [Schlesinger]
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt did visit England as a boy. He also visited Germany and for a while attended a German primary school. Unlike Churchill, he had not been out of Government in the 1930s. Roosevelt had assumed office a little more than a month after Hitler had been appointed chancellor (1933). From the beginning he saw Hitler as a threat to peace. The temper of America at the time was to limit military funds to fught the depression and to stay out of European conflicts. Roosevelt and Churchill had begun to correspond when Churchill entered the Government as First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1939. Roosevelt at first still hoped that Hitler could be stopped without using American troops. President Roosevelt played a key role in forging the great Arsenal of Democracy that would in the end play a key role in saving Britain and destroying the Axis.
Correspondence
The correspondence between Churchill and Roosevlt which began when Churchill returned to the Admiralty was a remarkable correspondence and was to continue throughout World War II between the two men who would play key roles in effect saving Western Civilization. [Tarapani] Thhere were to be almost 2,000 letters during the more than 5 years of the War. [Meacham]
American Isolationism
This time Britain could probably not even survive without America. The result was the most remarkable political association of the 20th century that between the Churchhill and Fraklin Roosevelt. Thankfully for Western democracy, Roosevelt was prepared to risk the ire of the Isolatiinists to assist. With the oubreak of the War (September 1939), the U.S. Neutrality Act prevented aid to Britain or any other beligerant country. The Roosevelt Administration guides changes to the laws through Congress to permit arms sales to the Allies. He is immediately attacked by isolationists like Charles Lindburg who are determined to keep America oit of the War. FDR also succeeds in establishing a draft and major increases in defense spending, especially naval spending.
Fall of France (May-June 1940)
Britain was unprepared for war when the German's invaded Poland. After the fall of France, however, Britain found itself in desperate straits in 1940. The day that Winston Churchill became primeminister, the German's launched their long-awaited Western offensive. Only narrowly did the British Expeditionary Force escape from Dunkirk. Frce provided airbases to attack Britain and naval bases to intensify the U-boat camoaign in the North atlantic. Most observers believed that Britain could not resist. Some even in Goverment suggested that Britain shood seek terms with the NAZIs. Churchill was, however, having none of it. There would be no British Vichy.
The Objective
After the fall of France, the correspondence was now between two heads of government. Churhchill's goal became to was to draw America into the War and until that was achieved to obtain as much support from America as possible. The aid from America proved vital, especially Lend Lease. Churchill later described how "No lover ever studied the whims of his mistress aas I did those of Presidenbt Roosevelt." Roosevelt also had his own objectives. He wanted to keep Britain in the War until the rest of the country realized that America would have to fight. He also was cocerbed about the British fleet. If it fell into German hands, the ballance of power at sea would be significantly altered.
Valliant Britaiin
Britain was alone, but not only did Britain resist the NAZIs, but in the Battle of Britain delivered the Luftwaffe its first defeat. Radio reports from Britain by Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues built considerable sympthy for Britain in America. Britain was, however, badly battered and the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic proving extreemely successful. Worst still, the British were running out of money to pay for American arms.
Harry Hopkins (January 1941)
The Battle of Britain made a German cross-Channel invasion impossible in 1940. The huge German Army, however, dominatd Europe. The Royal Navy was hard-pressed in the Atlantic. It was unclear at the end of 1940 if the British were prepared to continue the fight. Roosevelt had to know just how determined Britain was. The American Army was still not equipped with modern arms. Should America provide the still limited production of Armaments to Britain before its own military was equipped. Many around Roosevelt, including Harry Hopkins, were unsur how closely Roosevelt should tie American defense to Britain. Roosevelt dispatched Harry Hopkins to assess whether Britain's determination and situation. Churchill did not understand just who Hopkins was. Churchill knew that he was close to Roosevelt and informed of Hopkin's WPA work thought him a social worker and began giving him statistics about bathrooms and electrity in British slums. Hopkin's interupted him. ""Mr Churchill, I don't give a damn about your cottagers. I've come over here to find out how we can help you beat this fellow Hitler." Of course nothing could have pleased Churchill more. Churchill rose and said, "Mr Hopkins, come with me," and the two disappeared into Churchill's study. Churchill proceeeded to escort Hopkins all over the United Kingdom, from Scappa Flow in scotkand to the beach defenses in Kent. They spent time together at Chequers. Churchill completely converted him to the British cause. No onereally knew what Hopkins would say in private to Rossevelt when he returned to Washington. At a small dinner party before he returned, Hopkins rose to propose a toast. "I suppose you wish to know what I am going to say to President Roosevelt on my return. Well I am going to quote to you oneverse from the Book of Books. ... "Whither thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge, thy people shall be by peple, and thy God my God." Hopkins then added in on enfing, "Even to the end." Tears were streaming down Churchill's face. Hopkins became the aministrator of Lend Lease. [Goodwin, pp. 213-213 and Meacham]
American Aid
FDR's Destroyers for Bases and Lend Lease played a major role in helping keep Britain in the War. And it was not just American supplies. It was an America Catalina co-piloted by a U.S. Navu pilot that found Bismarck. The U.S. Navy was helping to escort convoys and firing on U-boats. For Roosevelt this was huge political risk. The American public was unaware in 1941 of the extent to which their country had been committed to war against Germany in the North Atlantic.
The Atlantic Charter (August 1942)
The Atlantic Charter is one of the key documents of the 20th century and remains still relevant today. A few months before America entered the War, the relationship and Allied vission of a free democratic Europe was sealed with the Atlantic Charter. The two met aboard the Prince of Wales which had been battered by the Bismarck. President Roosevelt with considerable effort because of his paralasis boarded the Prince of Wales supported by his son. In an emotional Sunday service, American and British sailors sand together "Onward Christian Soldiers". Only a few months later, the Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese bombers.
Personal Relationship
The relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt was not just an official one. The two men became close personal friends. They in fact spent considerable time together. One estimate puts it at 13 days, much of it in the White House. They were, however, very different men. Churchill was in many respects a romantic and very open. His Daughter Mary once described how, "He could be wiley, but it did not come natuarally." Once in the White House, Roosevelt came into Churchill's room as he was emerging from his bath. Churchill remarked, "You see the Primeminster of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United states. Much to the chagrin of the Republicans, Roosevelt was one of the most calculating and ffectuve politicans in American history. His last Vice President, Harry Truman, with whom he almost never conferred described him as the "coldest man I ever met". Churchill and Roosevelt showed realmaffection for each other. Roosevelt told Churchill, "Its fun being in the same decade as you." Elenor Roosevelt who often hosted Churchill in the hosted Churchill in the White House described the affection with which her husband held Churchill. (Churchill once said to the First Lady, "I don't think you entirely approve of me.") ite Househosten describes the affectChurchill watching Roosevelt struggling to stand, told his daughter with misty eyes, "I love that man." [Meacham]
Conduct of the War (1942)
It was the Soviet Red Army that carried the burden of the War in 1942. Among the Western Allies it was the British through most of 1942 that were engaging the Germans. The British 8th Army in North Africa was involved in a sea-saw battle with Rommel and the Africa Korps. Churchill was with Roosevelt in the White House Oval Office when they learned that 25,000 British and Empire forces had surrendered to Rommel at Tobruk. Churchill was apauled at the surrender. Roosevelt asked what he could do. Churchill asked for as many Sherman tanks as possible to be sent to the 8th Army making a stand in Egypt. Although many U.S. Army units still had obsolete Grants, Roosevelt issued the orders. [Meacham]
D-Day (June 1944)
The Allied success at Normandy in large measure may be attributed to the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt. The American Army was intent on a cross-Channel invasion as early as 1942. The Army did not yet fully appreciate the German strength or the effectivness of German armor as was proven at Kaserine in Tunisia (1942). Nor did the Allies have complete air superority in 1942 and 43. It is highly questiinable if America and Britain could have been sucessful in 1942 or even 1943. As so much depended on the invasion, Churchill wise advise here was of incalcuable importance and his ability to persude Roosevelt critical. [Meacham] Even if the Allies had eventually prevailed, Western Europe would have been liberated by the Red army with incalcuable consequences.
Retrospect
Had President Roosevelt survived the war, he would have visited London and France much like President Wilson after the World War I. Churchill looked forward to standinfg with the King and Queen at the Roosevelt on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The reception would have been thunderous. For Churchill's memorial service in St Paul's Cathedral, the congregation sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in honor of Churchill and Britain's great war-time ally. The two are remembered together in Westminster Abbey. Near the west door, a tablet reads, "To the Honored Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a faithful friend of freedom and of Britain." Nearby a marbel slab reads simply, "Remember Winston Churchill". Little more needs to be said.
Sources
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Frranklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World war II (Simon & Schuster: New York, 1994), 759p.
Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston (Random House, 2003).
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. "The Supreme Partnership," The Atlantic Monthly (October 1984).
Trapani, Carol, "Letters cemented partnership," Poughkeepsie Journal (December 8, 2001).

Franklin D. Roosevelt brought the new deal in to Americans life in the early thirties. Its purpose was to deal with the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression.(excepted by jorgeLUCAS)

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Roosevelt created the New Deal to provide relief for the unemployed, recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic and banking systems.[1] Although recovery of the economy was incomplete until almost 1940, the programs he initiated such as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continue to have instrumental roles in the nation's commerce. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt)

하버드 MBA 학생들의 목표성취 기술

하버드 MBA과정 재학생들을 대상으로 목표 설정에 관한 연구가 진행된적이 있었다. 재학시절 뚜렷한 목표를 세우고 그것을 달성하기 위한 구체적인 계획을 세운 학생은 전체의 3%였고, 13%목표는 뚜렷했지만, 구체적인 실천계획은 없었다. 재미있는것은 그들의 졸업후 수입이다. 목표와 계획이 뚜렷했던 3%는 나머지 97%의 평균수입의 10배에 달하는 수입을 올리고 있었고 목표만 있던 13%는 나머지보다 평균 2배의 수입을 올리고 있었다.

목표와 계획이, 같은 강의실에 앉아있던 사람들의 운명을 바꾸어버린것이다. 대부분의 사람들은 지도도 표지판도 없이 낯선 세계를 여행하듯이 살아간다. 일에 파묻혀 시간은 하염없이 흘러가고 삶은 늘 불만족스럽다. 미래는 언제나 막연하고 자신감은 이미 나를 떠난지 오래이다. IBM, 포드, 제록스, HP등을 담당했던 세계적인 경영컨설턴트이자 베스트셀러 저자인 브레이언 트레이시는‘목표는 막연한 꿈이 아닌 기술’ 이라고 강조한다. 그는 성공하려면 앞에서 조사된 상위 3%의 방식을 따라해야 한다고 말한다. 그가 전하는 목표 달성의 기술을 들여다보자.

1. 기한을 정하지 않은 목표는 총알 없는 총이다. 기한 없는 목표는 탁상공론이다. 기한이 없으면 일을 실행시켜주는 에너지도 발생하지 않는다. 당신의 삶을 불발탄으로 만들지 않으려면 분명한 기한을 정하라.

2. 독수리가 되고싶다면 독수리떼와 함께 날아라. 늘 교류하는 ‘준거집단’의 선택이 목표달성을 좌우한다. 칠면조 무리에 섞여있으면서 독수리를 꿈꾸지마라. 목표에 걸맞는 사람들과 교류하라.

3. 목표는 긍정문, 현재시제 1인칭 잠재의식은 긍정적인 명령처리와 현재시제에 잘 반응한다. 또한 목표는 개인적이어야한다. 개인적인 동기가 나를 움직이기 때문이다.

4. 목표는 간결해야한다. 목표달성을 이루려는 사람은 여기저기 총알을 퍼붓는 기관총 사수가 되어서는 안된다. 단 한번에 목표물을 날려버리는 저격병이 되어야한다.

5. 성공한 모습을 머릿속에 그리며 살아라. 육체는 신경 에너지의 명령에 따라 움직인다. 마음속에 성공을 그리는 행위는 자신의 중앙컴퓨터에 성공을 프로그래밍하는것과 같은 효과를 발휘한다.

6. 마무리 5%가 성공을 좌우한다. 많은 사람들이 95%까지는 열심히 일하다 막판에 목표달성을 포기한다. 포기하는것도 유혹이다. 마지막 5%가 남았을때 다가오는 포기의 유혹을 이겨내라.

7. 잘못을 인정하라. 그래야 문제를 통제할수 있다. 내가 변하지 않는한 아무것도 변하지 않는다. 삶에 대한 책임이 전적으로 나에게 있다는 사실을 인정하는 순간 우리는 비로소 목표의 주인이 될수 있다. 인정하지 않으면 행동도 할수 없다.

8. 목표달성을 의한 대가를 두려워하지 마라. 성공을 반드시 대가를 요구한다. 성공한 다음 대가를 치르면 된다는 생각을 버려라. 성공으로 가는 엘리베이터는 그때그때 대가를 치러야 움직이다.

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그냥 시간끌기 작전이었던것 같습니다. 제 대응방법은, 1. 새로 출판된 논문 3편(투고 준비중 포함). 2. 새로운 학회발표 자료 1건, 3. 새로운 추천서 2통 (회사 저희부서 director와 연구담당 VP로 부터, 전국적인 조사를 했는데 이만한 사람 없다고 씌어있었고, 지난 3-4개월 동안 논문 1-2편 특허 1-2편 정도를 출판할 일을 했다고 써 있음. 본인들이 알아서 작성), 4. 논문 citation을 다시 조사해서 첨부( 약 12-3편 정도 논문이었고 대략 10-25회 정도 인용되었음) 5. 본인이 포닥때 한일로(논문 2편) 지도교수가 최근 미 대통령이 주는 환경상(?) 받은 자료를 첨부했음. 뭐 본인의 이름은 없었지만 본인의 일이란 근거를 제시했음. RFE 준비한 시간은 10일 정도 걸렸는데 변호사가 딴짓하니라 한달정도 되서 보냈더군요. 뭐 예상한 대로 일주일 만에 바로 허락 받았습니다. 도움이 되셨으면 합니다

건강 십계명

(1) 새벽에 자리를 박차고 일어나라.일찍 자고 일찍 일어나면 다음부터는 일찍 자게 되어있다. 오늘밤 수면의 질이 내일 일의 능률과 직결된다. 최소한 일주일에 한 두 번은 일찍 잠자리에 든다.

(2) 아침 산책을 생활화 하라.아침 산책은 체중을 줄여준다. 맑은 정신으로 하루를 구상하라. 진리의 말씀을 묵상하라. 생각하는 사람, 기도하는 사람, 새벽기도라면 더 바랄 것이 없다.

(3) 부지런히 움직여라. 30분 일찍 출근하라. 준비하는 마음이 자신감을 회복시켜준다. 이왕 걸을 때는 힘차게 걸어 다녀라. 엘리베이터 대신 계단 오르기를 생활화하라. 일주일에 세 번 30분씩 운동하라.

(4) 자신의 일을 사랑하며 범사에 감사하라. 사랑하는 일은 스트레스가 되지 않는다. 감사는 부정적인 무드를 밝은 분위기로 변화시킨다.

(5) 꿈과 호기심, 탐구하는 자세를 잃지 말라.지적 활동은 쉬면 빨리 늙는다. 두뇌는 쓸수록 젊어진다. 꿈이 있는 사람은 밝고 건강하다. 현실에 집착하는 삶보다 저항력이 강하다.

(6) 건전한 스트레스 해소책을 개발하라.음주와 흡연과 도박은 결국 스트레스를 더해준다. 의기소침하면 목욕하라. 아침은 좋은 음악으로 시작하라. 잠을 설쳤으면 낮잠으로 보충하라. 근무 중이면 힘차게 기지개를 펴라.옥상에 올라가 심호흡을 하라

(7) 세끼 식사를 균형있게 하라.골고루 천천히 맛있게 먹어라. 아침은 조금이라도 반드시 먹고 저녁은 약간 줄여라. 점심식사는 최고의 영양식으로 충분하게 들어라. 자연미각을 길들여라. 인공식보다는 자연식, 청량음료보다는 생수, 커피보다는 인삼차로 하라 . 군것질은 과일로 하라

(8) 휴식스케줄을 철저히 잡아라.쉴 때는 정보의 유입을 통제하라. TV나 신문에 몰두하는 것이 휴식이 아니다. 휴식도 일이다. 휴식의 질이 일의 능률과 생산성을 좌우한다. 일과 휴식의 균형을 유지하라. 휴식은 조금씩 자주 하는 것이 한꺼번에 많이 쉬는 것보다 효과적이다.

(9) 건강과 성공의 흐름을 만들어라.혼자서는 한계가 있다. 나보다 훌륭한 사람을 많이 만나라. 몸과 마음이 건강한 사람을 만나라. 운동도 같이 하고 공부도 같이하라. 건강은 전염성이 강하다. 성공한 사람에게는 배울점이 많다.

(10) 부모에게 효도하고 하나님을 사랑하라.효자는 성공할 수밖에 없다. 효자 집안에서 효자가 난다. 하나님을 바라보라 불완전한 인간이 강해질 수 있는 유일한 비결을 예수 그리스도 안에서 하나님을 바라보는 것이다. 하나님의 사랑 안에서 진리와 함께 하는 것이다. 하나님 없는 인간의 의는 때묻은 의복과 같고 하나님없는 인간의 힘은 한낱 모래성에 불과하다. 하나님 안에서 모든 것이 통합되고 모든 인생의 수수께끼가 풀린다는 사실을 기억하라.

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박진영이 쓴 인생글귀..

박진영이 쓴 인생글귀

20살 때 세상은 승자와 패자, 둘로 갈라진다.
붙은 자와 떨어진 자.이 두세상은 모든 면에서 너무나도 확연히 차이가 났다.
한쪽은 부모님의 축복과 새 옷, 대학생활이라는 낭만과 희망이 주어졌고,
다른 한쪽은 비로소 깨달은 세상의 무서움에 떨면서 길거리로 무작정 방출되어야 했다.
부모님의 보호도, 학생이라는 울타리도 더이상은 존재하지 않았다.
철없던 청소년기의 몇년이 가져다주는 결과치고는잔인할 정도로 엄청난 차이였다.
나는 비로소 내가 겨우 건너온 다리가얼마나 무서운 다리였는지 확인할수 있었고,

그 이후론 승자 팀에 속한 것을 다행스럽게 생각하며그 사실을 즐기느라 시간가는 줄 몰랐다.
정말 나의 20살은 이렇게 승리의 축제로 뒤덮였고, 나는 내 장래를 위한 어떠한 구상, 노력도 하지않았다.

나의 20살은 이렇게 친구, 선배, 여자, 술,춤으로 가득찼다.

나는 세상이 둘로 갈라졌으며 나는 승자팀에 속해 있었기에이제 아무걱정 없이 살면 되는 줄 알았다.
하지만 그로부터 7년 후 나는 놀라운 사실들을 또 목격하게 되었다.
영원할 것만 같던 두개의 세상이 엎치락 뒤치락 뒤바뀌며

그 2세상이 다시 4세상으로 8세상으로 또 나누어져 가는 것을 볼수있었다.
대학에 떨어져 방황하던 그 친구가 그 방황을 내용으로 책을 써 베스트 셀러가 되는가 하면,
명문대를 나와 대기업에 취직했던 친구가 구조조정으로 실업자가 되기도하고,
춤을 추다 대학에 떨어진 친구가 최고의 안무가가 되기도 하며
대학에 못가서 식당을 차렸던 친구는 그 식당이 번창해서거부가 되기도 했다

20살에 보았던 영원할것만 같던 그 두 세상은 어느 순간엔가 아무런 의미도 영향력도 없는듯 했다.
20살, 그것은 시작일 뿐이었다.
20살 전에 세상이 계속 하나 일 줄 알고노력하지 않았던 사람들이 좌절했듯이
20살에 보았던 그 두가지 세상이 전부일거라고 믿었던 사람 또한
10년도 안되어 아래 세상으로 추락하고 마는 것이다.
반면 그 두가지 세상에 굴하지 않고 자신의 소신과 꿈을 가지고 끝없이 노력했던 사람은
그 두개의 세상의 경계선을 훌쩍 뛰어넘을 수 있었다.

지금 20살 여러분들은 모두 합격자, 아니면 불합격자의 두 세상중 하나에 속하게 되었을 것이다.
하지만 승자는 자만하지 말 것이며,
패자는 절망하지 말아야 할 것이다.
20살에 세상이 둘로 달라지는 것으로 깨달았다면
7~8년 후에는 그게 다시 뒤바뀔수도 있다는 것을 깨닫게 될것이다.
20살은 끝이 아니라 시작에 불과하다는 것을 잊지말고

Someone once asked Albert Einstein how he was able to cope with his great fame. He replied that he did so by continuing to work and pursue new goals. He didn’t dwell on his successes but kept his mind actively involved with new challenges. His example speaks to the importance of keeping momentum in our life.

Before I came to U.S, I met 1 doctor who repent he sin and believe in God when he was 40. After I've met him, I decided to go forth with the confidence that I’m pursuing for being a doctor. The conviction of God’s call keeps me strengthening my motivation.

Now, I have both feeling fear/worries and belief. And I don't expect to have a perfect peace. I am praying that I can transcend the fears and move forward in spite of many obstacles.

As the test comes, I am feeling a mixture of peace and fear at the same time.
But, I believe that taking the step is vital to experiencing Christ’s peace and opening myself to God’s full blessings.

Pray for me that I have a belief for guidance and have strength and eagerness to take the adventure life that must be best for me.

God is on our side as we make the effort to confront the fears. We should be determined in this effort, trusting that he will give us all the grace we need as we step forward. May God grant us the wisdom to see his best at every point in our life, and the courage to move beyond any fears that stand in the way.