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I talk a lot about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.  I believe we spend too much time sending out messaging that dreams are achieved by people with extraordinary gifts rather than understanding people who achieve the extraordinary are just like you and me, except they put forth exceptional, extraordinary effort. In a recent conversation someone described the difference in life between failure, normal and exceptional and the difference was what kind of effort you put forth. It doesn’t matter if you went to an Ivy League school or a Community college, what matters is your effort and your ability to believe in life. I love what Steven Spielberg says about life finding or pursuing you, “I’ve discovered I’ve got a preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.” Life or large forces will find the ordinary person who is willing to do the extraordinary, but it can’t find you if you are not putting forth the effort.  Think of the effort as a light in the darkness guiding forces to see you and walk you into great things. My father used to write on our lunch bags the three E’s