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"My feeds are not being updated in Google Reader and in blogrolls so please take note and do check my blog directly by clicking the blog link or in feedburner subsriptions. I figure it is a blogger issue and have alerted blogger about this. Thanks for your patience, understanding and cooperation. Here's an inspiring poem I'd like to share while I write my next post. Do swing by again later. Thanks! Have a great evening.

The Man Who Thinks He Can

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed, you are;
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.

By WALTER D. WINTLE, “The Man Who Thinks He Can.”
—Poems That Live Forever, comp. Hazel Felleman, p. 310 (1965)