This document lists 15 important lessons. Some of the key lessons include having courage and patience, that what one sees as an end another sees as a beginning, and that to handle others one must use their heart. Another lesson is that the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The document emphasizes concentrating on what remains rather than what is lost and that finishing first requires first finishing.

1. 15 IMPORTANT LESSONS
ADEWALE EGUNSOLA

2. ONE
Have the courage to be impatient and patience to be brave.

3. TWO
What the caterpillar calls ‘the end’ ……… the butterfly calls ‘the beginning’.

4. THREE
To forgive calls upon your love, to forget calls upon your strength.

5. FOUR
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart – Eleanor Roosevelt.

6. FIVE
If you don’t get what you like, you like what you get.

7. SIX
He who makes a mistake and fails to correct it………… makes another.

8. SEVEN
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is that little extra.

9. EIGHT
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friends to one and enemy to none – Benjamin Franklin.

10. NINE
If you must speak your mind then mind how you speak.

11. TEN
The first two letters in the word goal, are GO.

12. ELEVEN
I have learnt to see the human side in everyone including my enemy – A Moroccan schoolgirl.

13. TWELVE
Concentrate on what you have left, not on what you have lost.

14. THIRTEEN
Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.

15. FOURTEEN
Giving strength and courage gives strength and courage.

16. FIFTEEN
To finish first you must first finish – Rick Mears.

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