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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 3071136, member: 20480&quot;]Following is an offering of personal history, intended not to toot my own horn, but to offer a little inspiration to a young guy who might need it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my later school school years my coins were similarly stuffed away while I focused on studies and athletics . . . Girls were high on my list, but I wasn&#039;t yet high on theirs, so I focused my energies where I could get the best return on investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like [USER=94776]@CoinBlazer[/USER], I was a runner of apparently similar talent, and a bright enough kid to compensate for middling study habits.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t the fastest kid on the team, but I was faster than those not on the team, and running meant something to me.&nbsp; I liked doing my math and science homework, but hated reading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Importantly, I was blessed with with a stubborn persistence that drove me to train more and harder than my contemporaries, and overachieve on the track.&nbsp; That, coupled with good grades (from studying longer and harder at what did not come naturally to me) led to my recruitment to a few colleges. I secured no scholarship for athletics during that recruitment, but ultimately received an athletic scholarship after proving myself as a walk-on my freshman year.</p><p><br /></p><p>After college my education secured me a fruitful career which funded the immediate resumption of coin collecting, and finding my wonderful wife of 25 years in due time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot to be thankful for . . . Mostly that stubborn streak and those around me who regularly reminded me to do stay focused on the right things at the right times.</p><p><br /></p><p>My message to [USER=94776]@CoinBlazer[/USER] . . .&nbsp; &quot;Don&#039;t sacrifice the things you want most for the things you want now.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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