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What’s your turning point in life?  You know that seminal moment that you could look back upon now, and say for certain, that if this or that had not happened, my life and it’s trajectory would have been very different. To be sure there are many, many of these turning points in our lives.  But some seem to stand out more than others. What’s yours?
 
I have contemplated this concept many times in many different scenarios of my life.  So many times those moments seemed like they were either spirit led, providential, lucky, or just plain bad!

When I first became a freshly minted professor of communication, I got to actually assign this to a group of students to contemplate this idea, process the details, and communicate it to others in a speech in what is called an Ice-Breaker Speech.

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