Many years ago, I coached a young man who had grown up in the housing projects of Tampa, sending him from the University of South Florida College of Engineering to be the first United States representative to Siemens International student exchange program.

    A lot of people said it couldn't be done. We did it anyway.

    Ramón knows the difference it has made in his life and the life of his mother. Siemens paid for the last year of his degree and gave him a job. Ramón's mom took the money he sent from his work and went back to school. Before she graduated, she had three job offers as a nurse. She no longer has a minimum wage job packaging shirts for a sportswear manufacturer.

    Miracles are what we make happen by how we live. The potential in each person is profound.

    In The Courage to Do It Again, I talk about those every day miracles.