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Making Your Burdens Blessings: Changes in Attitude, Changes in Fortitude

Burdens can be transformed into lasting good with a simple shift toward gratitude, structure, and courage.
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Making Your Burdens Blessings: Changes in Attitude, Changes in Fortitude
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Jeff Minick
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Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie had a big problem.

He was the wealthiest man in the world, yet he fervently believed that the rich man held his money in trust on behalf of the public and that he should use the great bulk of his fortune to advance society rather than passing it on to his children.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.