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The Experts Teach Maximising Your Potential

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It was September 1973 and I was a junior in high school. From 1954–1994, my high school only had two principals and Frank Tracy took over in the fall of 1973. He wanted to leave his mark early on. It was a hot September afternoon when we had his first assembly in the gym.
My high school graduating class had 751 students and the classes before us and after us had about the same. This meant that in this assembly we had over 2,300 people including teachers, administrators and staff in the gym this hot September afternoon.
As Mr. Tracy began to speak, I noticed he was speaking to the students and not at the students. Somewhere into his speech he paused and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I want to share with you the secret to success. The secret to success is really quite simple and it comes in just 10 little words. Like the Gettysburg address delivered by President Lincoln in 1863, these are all simple words. In fact, each word has just one syllable and two letters. It is when you string these 10 little words in this particular order that they become the secret to your success. I don’t mean just your success at High Point High School; I mean your success throughout life.”
Now let’s be clear, I am a junior boy in high school, so am I really listening to what he’s saying? What is more important? Girls, Cars, Sports, and Food are way more important and, depending on the day of the week and time of day, will actually determine what is more important at any given time.
The fact is I am not sure whether I remember this from the fall of 1973 or if it was at the graduation for the class of 1974. Or maybe in the fall of 1974 (my Senior year) when he had the same assembly. Maybe it was at my graduation or at the graduation for the class of 1976. In fact, even after I graduated, many of my friends’ younger siblings heard the same words. Several years later, as I became director of youth activities at my church, many of those kids were graduating from High Point and subsequently heard the words. I then heard them again at their graduations.

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The Experts Teach Maximising Your Potential

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Publisher

: ., 2014

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1-86

Language

English

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978-87-403-0784-9

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1st Edtion

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Communication

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