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BOUNCE ABILITY

It’s not how far you fall, it’s how high you bounce when you reach the bottom.

Author Unknown

A young woman called Sara went to visit her mother Elizabeth one day because she was feeling fed up and miserable. Sara had recently been told that her job was going to be made redundant, money was tight and she had just split up with her boyfriend. Sara told her mother that she was tired of fighting and struggling and felt like just giving up.
Her mother listened patiently, and then told her daughter Sara that she wanted to show her something, and took her into the kitchen. She proceeded to fill three saucepans with water and placed them on the hob to boil.
In the first saucepan, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and ...

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