Everyone has a purpose in life…a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra

TALENT AND PERSISTENCE are a lethal combination.  According to a wise man, former US President Calvin Coolidge, the world is full of talented failures.  On the other hand, persistence takes you miles further than if you simply had talent.  Says one of my favorite authors Mr Stephen King, what separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.  How could you disagree with either of them?

My friend Dennis Sy, whom I have known since we were snot-nosed and in shorts, is blessed to have the first, but is destined to have a lifelong supply of the second. …