Bailee Madison

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Bethany Hamilton

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Shamila Kohestani: The Captain of the first Women's Afghan National Soccer Team

Shamila is entering her senior year at Drew University and will graduate in June 2012 with a major in political science and a minor in women’s studies. Ten years ago Shamila was beaten by the Taliban, deprived of any education from age 8 to 13, and confined to her home in Kabul.

Shortly after the Taliban were removed from power, she began to play soccer. Her soccer involvement and position as the captain of the first Women’s Afghan National Soccer Team, led to receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2006 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles. During that trip to the U.S., she had the opportunity to attend the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership program in New Jersey. While at the program, she met a teacher from Blair Academy who convinced the school to provide a one year scholarship to Blair, a leading boarding school in New Jersey.

From Blair, through the help of the Afghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund (www.agfaf.org), Shamila was awarded a four year scholarship to Drew University. While at Drew, she has continued to play soccer, been an advocate for Afghan women and was named to the Dean’s list. During summers, she has been a volunteer counselor at the Julie Foudy Leadership Camps in Chicago, San Francisco, and New Jersey and this summer interned for three weeks at a program in Washington, D.C. called, I Live to Lead: Leadership Summit. She has also been a speaker at numerous elementary and high schools to tell young people her story and educate them on Afghanistan.

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Quote - Richard DeVos

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that 

I regard as being most highly correlated with success, 

whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence." 

- Richard DeVos

Video - Jac de Hann

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Becci Manson : (Re)touching lives through photos

" [Photos are] our memory - keeper and our histories. The last thing we would grab [in a crisis], and the first thing you'd go back to look for." Becci Manson 


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Quote - Mary Anne Radmacher

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little 

voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"

Mary Anne Radmacher Author and Artist

Life by Design: A Show about Lisa Leonard

Lisa is a mommy to two boys, David, 10 and Matty, 8 and wife to Steve. Lisa and her team design handmade jewelry. Each piece of jewlery is it's own work of art. Lisa states that her business exist because moms, grandmas and friends have shared her designs with others, the business has grown organically through word of mouth.
Join Lisa, Steve, David and Matty on their new adventure! Want to help get the word out about 'Life by Design' featuring Lisa's family please share the trailer on your Facebook, Twitter and your blog!
Make sure to visit Lisa's blog here and her FB page here.

I can't wait to see their first episode!

Give STRENGTH. COURAGE. HOPE.

Quote - Richard Koch

"Few people take objectives really seriously. They put 

average effort into too many things, rather than superior 

thought and effort into a few important things. People who 

achieve the most are selective as well as determined."

Richard Koch

                                                       Author of The 80/20 Principle

Mina Bissell : A new understanding of cancer

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Inspiring Story

Service

A doctor quickly entered the hospital after being called in for an urgent surgery. He changed his clothing and went directly to the surgery block. He saw the boy's father walking back and forth in the hall waiting for the doctor.

Once seeing the doctor, the dad yelled: 
"Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son's life is in danger? Don't you have the sense of responsibility?"

The doctor smiled and said:
"I am sorry, I wasn't in the hospital and I came the fastest I could... now, I wish you'd calm down so that I can do my work."

"Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do? " said the father angrily.

The doctor smiled again and replied:
"I will say what is said in the Holy Bible 'From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed be the name of God.' Doctors cannot prolong lives. Go and intercede fro your son, we will do our best by God's grace."

"Giving advice when we're not concerned is so easy" murmured the father.

The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, "Thank God! Your son is saved!"

And without waiting for the father's reply he carried on his way running. "If you have any question, ask the nurse."

"Why is he so arrogant? He couldn't wait some minutes so that I ask about my son's state? commented the father seeing the nurse after the doctor left.

The nurse answered: "His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was in the burial when we called him for your son's surgery."

Author Unknown

Quote - Brian Tracy

"When you develop yourself to the point where your 

belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can 

accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future 

will be unlimited." — Brian Tracy

Quote - George Bernard Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for 

what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The 

people who get on in this world, are the people who get 

up and look for the circumstances they want, and if 

they cannot find them, make them." 

- George Bernard Shaw

Quote - Waldo Emerson

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on 

the work before you, well assured that the right performance 

of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours 

or ages that follow it."

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Benjamin Button

for what it's worth:
it's never too late or, in my case. 
too early to be whoever you want to be.
There's no time limit, stop whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same,
there are no rules to this thing.
We can make the best or the worst of it.
And I hope you see things that startle you. 
I hope you feel things you never felt before.
I hope you meet people with a different point of view.
I hope you live a life you're proud of.
If you find that you're not,
I hope you have all the strength to
start all over again

- benjamin button

Quote - Andrew Carnegie

"No [person] becomes rich unless he/she enriches others." 

                                    

- Andrew Carnegie

Noel Bairey Merz : The single biggest health threat for women face

Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

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Quote - Wayne Dyer

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you 

care for to be what they choose for themselves without any 

insistence that they satisfy you."

                                           Wayne Dyer

Author and Speaker

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Thank you for your interest in contributing to Hearten Magazine. Our Goal at Hearten Magazine is to share your stories of strength, hope, and courage. The publication features a wide variety of empowering, passionate and inspirational personal growth articles from authors, visionaries and women from all walks of life. Hearten Magazine is published quarterly (January, April, July and October) in PDF format only with some of the articles being featured on the blogsite.

Our Audience

Women from all walks of life who want to be a part of an alliance of women with defiance of purpose. To take possession of our minds and direct it to the ends of your own choice by claiming the blessings of sound health, peace of mind, a labor of love of your own choice, freedom from fear and worry, a positive mental attitude, and material riches of your own choice and quantity.

What ever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. 


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2012 Editorial Calendar

January 2013 Issue - Theme : Journey
Final Submission Date : November 15th, 2012

You are Unique

Think what a remarkable, unduplicatable, and miraculous thing it is to be YOU! Of all the people who have come and gone the earth, since the beginning of time, not ONE of them is like YOU!

No one who has ever lived or is to come has had your combination of abilities, talents, appearance, friend, aquantances, burdens, sorrows and opportunities.

No one's hair grows exactly the way yours does. No one's finger prints are like yours. No one has the same combination of secret inside jokes and family expressions that you know.

The few people who laugh at all the same things you do, don't sneeze the way you do. No one prays about exactly the same concerns as you do. No one is loved by the same combination of people that love you - NO ONE!

No one before, no one to come. You ARE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE!

Enjoy that uniqueness. You do not have to pretend in order to seem more like somone else. You weren't meant to be like someone else. You do not have to lie to conceal the parts of you that are not like what you see in anyone else.

You were meant to be diffent. Nowhere ever in all of history will the same things be going on in anyone's mind, soul and spirit as are going on in yours right now.

If you did not exist, there would be a hole in creation, a gap in history, something missing from the plan for humankind.

Treasure your uniquness. It is a gift given only to you. Enjoy it and share it!

No one can reach out to others in the same way that you can. No one can speak your words. No one can convey your meanings. No one can comfort with your kind of comfort. No one can bring your kind of understanding to another person.

Share your uniqueness. Let it be free to flow out amoung your family and friends and people you meet in the rush and clutter of living whatever you are. That gift of yourself was given to enjoy and share. Give yourself away!

See it! Receive it! Let it tickle you! Let it inform you and nudge you and inspire you!

YOU are UNIQUE!

AUTHOR UNKNOWN | INSPIRATIONAL STORY

GIVE  STRENGTH.  COURAGE.  HOPE.

Nick Vujicic - Attitude is Altitude

Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run or even stand on two feet. Now put both of those scenarios together : no arms and no legs. What would you do? How would that effect your everyday life?

To learn more about Nick Vujicic and his journey go to http://www.attitudeisaltitude.com

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Affirmation of Gratitude

Oh Divine Providence,

I ask not for more riches

But more wisdom 

for which to make wiser use of  

the riches 

You gave me at birth 

consisting in the power to control 

and direct my own mind to whatever ends I desire.

- Napoleon Hill

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