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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006

Adam Braun

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
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
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Act Big Dream Small Start Unreasonable
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.
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Action Become Momentum Movement Small Start Voice Weight
A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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Desire Dream Heartfelt Idea Pencil Possibility Promise Simple World
In moments of uncertainty…i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Happen Life Live Proud Two Path Uncertainty
Make your life a story worth telling.
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Create Journey Life Make Story Success Telling Worth
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble – we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look.
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Bubble Entire Leaving Ourselves People Surround
Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
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Beating Chest People Person Revolution
We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
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Familiar Fear Leaving Natural Overcome Surrounding Unfamiliar
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
Tourists see, and travelers seek.
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Adventure Journey Passion See Seek Tourist Traveler
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways.
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Core Easiest Human Being Identification Meaningful Thinking Two Value
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
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn’t let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
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Change Compass Easiest Failing might Understood Way
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
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
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Commitment Community Education Local Need Own
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
When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Business Creating Good Office Producing Renting Space Staff Training
That’s when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
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Asleep Awake Happen Magic Think Thinking World
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don’t have the life experiences to know what can’t be done.
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Done Element Experience Life Powerful
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
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Begin Comfort Discovery Life Self Zone
I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
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Acknowledged Around Exist Looked Proof Within Yourself
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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Bracelet Long People Taken Trip Wear
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Attainment Educational Enjoy Family Grandparent Parent Virtue
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

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