Inspirational Stories VII : Lance Armstrong, A Cancer Fighter
By Ellesse Chow
Just when you thought life is good to you, something disastrous happened. You can choose to give up and let life’s challenges get you down. Or you can decide to fight it and savour the sweet aftertaste of victory!
Lance Armstrong choose the latter. What about you?
Black 1996
Lance Armstrong was at the peak of his career in early 1996. At that time, he had just won the World Cycling Championships and became the first cyclist to clock the widest winning margin in the U.S. National Road Race Championship’s history. Besides that, he had just signed a 2 year contract to ride with a famous French racing team for $2.5 million.
But his dream of riding for the French crashed on October 2, 1996 when he was diagnosed with advanced stage testicular cancer. The cancerous cells had spread to his lungs and brain and an urgent operation had to be arranged to remove his swollen testicle, which had grown to the size of an orange. Doctors told him he had a 50% chance of survival, even though they later admitted that it was inflated by almost 47%. Read more
How to Stay In Touch with Goal Setting College
By Ellesse Chow
Over the past few months, Goal Setting College has grown modestly from a place – for sharing my personal development learnings – to a niche community of like minded Goal Setting enthusiasts. I really thank all of you (yes, again 
) for making this possible.
As this site continue to grow, I’d like to share 2 methods different readers use to stay connected with the community. Hopefully in doing so, new visitors to Goal Setting College can probably explore the areas where they might not have considered before.
Here are the methods :
(1) RSS Feed
A relatively easy way to be notified of our new articles is to subscribe to our “news feeds” or “RSS feed”. You can use tools such as Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes and other news aggregators and feed readers to help you with this. To add this feed, just click here.
(2) Email Alerts
If you don’t use RSS, you can still receive updates of the feed via email. Just click this and enter your email address.
Regardless of whether you’ve subscribe via RSS feed or Email Alerts, as a bonus for subscribing, you’ll also receive a f.ree Goal Setting Tutorial and “Think & Grow Rich” ebook. To get your subscriber bonus, scroll all the way to the end of each new article in your feed reader or email program and you’ll see a link “Get Your Free Subscriber Downloads Here!”. Just click on it and you’ll be directed to get your bonuses.
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