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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I’ve taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos.

Adam Braun

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.
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Day Existence Important Legacy Life One Story
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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Abutant Collaboration Country Nonprofit Passion Resource
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Challenge Creating Easy Last Something
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you’re destined to become.
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Accept Both Destiny Fighting Person Time Twenties Way
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
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Always Clash Guided Moment Perceived Priorities Value
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
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Losing Prospect Realize Realizing Something Value
I asked a boy begging on the streets, ‘If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?’ and he answered me with two words: ‘A pencil.’ Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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Answered Anything Boy Luckily Pencil Pocket Street World
A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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Band Brand Celebrity Critically List Major Over Pick
Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.
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Around Campaign Country Election People Political Think Value Vote
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Allwowing Chose Light Path Two Uncertainty Yourself
It’s the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
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Different Enable Different People Presence Smarter Surround Yourself
They don’t come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I’ve been and the people I’ve met.
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Boardroom Come Conference Distinguished Level Lot Off Present
I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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Entrepreneur Global Myself Non-Profit Person Think Thinking Wanted
Make your life a story worth telling.
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Create Journey Life Make Story Success Telling Worth
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006
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Asked Beginning Boy Dream Journey Pencil Single Traveling
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Commitment Community Education Local Need Own

Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I’ve taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos.

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