There is no illusion that athletes in college and university levels produce the world's greatest National Basketball Association (NBA) stars. There is also no illusion that University of Connecticut Huskies only graduates a quarter of their NCAA Basketball Athletes and the NCAA Basketball as whole graduates 66% of their male athletes according to a report by Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY. Some of these athletes leave school early to pursue a career as a professional athlete. So one may wonder if t...

There is no such thing as failure (Michael, 2012). Failure is a quality of thought that must be discharged and eliminated from a person's psyche if the person has put forth effort. The only true failure is the non-attempt to attempt to improve in ones creativity. Personally, I believe that the second attempt a person gives is really the first try. Another one of my favorite self-motivating mental messages is, "I never claimed to be perfect, I only claimed to be me." If a person keeps their go...