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My last sermon for my dad’s funerals-El Bricon: from womb to tomb!
The following was my latest words for my dad’s funerals in Port-au-Prince last week. I call it “El Bricon: from womb to tomb.” This is in a nutshell his life story. I’m excited to share more about him and those closed to him in an upcoming book to reveal his memoir, and keep his story…
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The Lord has called Erick Jean-Francois Home. Be in peace El Bricon!
I am sad to announce my dad, Erick Jean-Francois, 86, died today , in his home, Rue Fourchard, # 51, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was born on December 6, 1930, in Chambellan, Grande-Anse, Haiti. In 1962, he married Elucianne Momplaisir; and together they raised 9 sons and daughters, and 10 grandchildren. Erick was a retired officer from the Haitian Armed…
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Suggestions for success and to live the life you’ve always wanted.
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Managing yourself with graciousness, empathy, and gratitude to avoid negativity of the power paradox.
“How to rise to the top without losing the virtues that get you there,” here is an interesting question based on a research by Datcher Kelter, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. I am amazed to share this content with you. Professor Kelter…
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Record number in the life leadership open meeting in Fort-Lauderdale.
It was a standing open meeting in Fort Lauderdale last Tuesday night in the aftermath of the first ever HAITIAN creole leadership convention. The rain did not stop almost 100 people to gather at the conference room to listen to the Life Leadership program and its compensated community which aims at setting people free in…
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Almost 1000 Haitians attended the First Creole Life Leadership Convention in Florida: An Outstanding Big Success!
Hundreds of Haitians, mostly from Haiti, and its diaspora flocked to Broward Convention Center, in Fort-Lauderdale, Florida, to participate in the first ever creole Life Leadership Convention, last week-end (August 26-28, 2016) Here are some highlights of this moment: This big event kicked off with a bible study, and a talk on emotional intelligence to…
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My participation at the toastmasters speech contest: compete, and get past your fear!
I just competed in the toastmasters evaluation, and humorous speech contests in Fort-Lauderdale this Saturday morning. I feel a sense of accomplishment to have been on the podium, making new friends, facing my fear, and understanding I could have been better. This is my third participation at a speech contest. There’s a feeling I like…
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You will doubt yourself. But keep going anyway, Success is not that far away.
Some days you wake up, and you doubt yourself. You see clouds. You are tempted to quit. You’re human. It’s natural. Normal. But, pursuing excellence is not normal. Achieving success is not natural. The ones who have the gold at the Olympic Games prove us that success is not normal. I was having a conversation…
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Confucius philosophical leadership learning: The Great Learning!
What the Great Learning teaches is: to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, an unperturbed calmness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose.…
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Hell: ‘Whatever you fear most…’ an oustanding Edwidge Danticat’s folk story!
I am reading Edwige Danticat. Her recent memoir “Brother, I’m dying” is amazing. She tells her family story in poignant way. She combines her story with the story of her dad, her uncle, her countries, her travels, her neighborhood, her grandmas.to free herself, and to free us as well to tell our own story, and to…
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