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    Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves: How To Think Your Way To Success In Every Area Of Your Life
    Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves: How To Think Your Way To Success In Every Area Of Your Life
    Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves: How To Think Your Way To Success In Every Area Of Your Life
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    Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves: How To Think Your Way To Success In Every Area Of Your Life

    By Charles Emeka and Nathaniel Peat

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    If you've ever wondered how some of the most famous named people in the world today have overcome what we perceive as impossible, you need to look no further as this book will teach you some of the fundamental principles which they adopted when they opted to . . . Build Castles and not dig graves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9780956111920
    Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves: How To Think Your Way To Success In Every Area Of Your Life

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      Build Castles, Don't Dig Graves - Charles Emeka

      Copyright © 2009 Charles Emeka

      First Published in Great Britain in 2009 by Charles Emeka.

      The right of Charles Emeka to be identified as the Author of the work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published.

      A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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      ISBN 978-0-9561119-1-3

      ISBN: 9780956111920

      Typeset in Tahoma by Charles Emeka

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      Printed and bound in the UK

      Contents Page

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword By Nathaniel Peat

      Introduction

      Build Castles, Don’t Dig Graves

      Note 1- Think Positive Thoughts

      Note 2- Time To Focus

      Note 3- You Were Born To Win

      Note 4- Negative Relationships

      Note 5- Never Too Young, Never Too Old

      Note 6- The F Word

      Note 7- Creative Thinking

      Note 8- Great Appearance, Great Expectations

      Note 9- Mind Food

      Note 10- The Power of Right Now

      Note 11- Goal Setting

      Keep Making It Happen

      Power Quotes To Help Build Castles

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Fantasia Barrino. Fantasia, is an American R&B singer, Broadway and television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. She has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. Fantasia also played the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple.

      She attended Andrews High School in High Point. After she was raped by a classmate, she was left feeling harassed and embarrassed and dropped out of high school. She later became pregnant at age sixteen and on August 8, 2000, she gave birth to her daughter Zion. She broke up with Zion’s father because he was physically abusive towards her. Fantasia then briefly moved to neighboring Greensboro, North Carolina before trying out for the American Idol Auditions in Atlanta.

      Fantasia made an immediate impression on American Idol with her stylized gospel-influenced sound, and her explosive stage presence. Her audition version of Tina Turner’s Proud Mary made her an early favorite in the competition. Her standout performance during the course of the show was a heartfelt staging of the Porgy and Bess standard Summertime that left her in tears from feeling the song and earned praise from the judges—Randy Jackson has called it the best performance in the show’s history—and was named to the Award’s 2004 list of greatest television moments.

      Concerns were raised over her as a single mother being a poor role model for youth. However, she did not let her detractors stop her. She refused to dig a grave and has continued to build castles. Without a doubt, she is a role model for me and to millions of people around the world young and old. Her message is simple, if I can, then you definitely can. Her mess has become her message. Fantasia’s success culminated in a New York Times best selling autobiography, Life is Not a Fairy Tale (Simon & Shuster, September 2005), a candidly revealing memoir that was adapted as a

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