We all have goals, hopes and dreams that we would like to accomplish someday. But for most, it stops with the word “someday.” Whether you want to improve your financial status, to exercise more, to commit to a better diet, to pray more, or even settle down and have a family, there is a gap between where you are today and where you would like to be. Actually, there are many gaps. These gaps can do two things. They can either give you hope, anticipation, motivation, and excitement which in turn lead to the desire to overcome them. Gradually closing…

Where would you be without failure? Living almost a perfect life but with very little personal growth, very little wisdom, and very little appreciation for what you have. Failure and the fear of failure give us a chance to care more, to put more effort into things, it gives us a voice, and it also gives us the chance to learn what not to do. So the next time you fail, it’s okay, fail gracefully, pick yourself up, evaluate your failure and the experience you gained from it, learn from your mistakes and look ahead at what’s next.

Charlene Schiff was born to a loving family in a small town of Horochow, Poland. She had a good childhood until one morning where her life would be changed forever. In 1941, Hitler decided to take over all of Poland, where his troops dragged off her father never to be seen again. Charlene, her mother and her older sister were sent to a Jewish ghetto where they shared a small room with three other families. Charlene was only 11 years old at the time. Her mother was forced to hard labor, the girls were sometimes put to work as well.…