For parents, stressing intrinsic goals, such as mastery, learning and doing one's best, can be tough.
In fact, for many, one's best work and most significant achievements lay ahead.
Finding one's best self, in my opinion, is one of the most important quests a person can pursue, and is obviously a prerequisite to being one's best self as often as possible.
Now, he's one of Egypt's best-known television personalities, with a nationally broadcast program that has drawn comparisons to Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" for its irreverent take on Egyptian politics.
Yet this season's side was certainly not one of Esperance's best - and their rivals, who were equally full of talent, can look to the future with optimism.
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In Japan's rural Oita prefecture, a farm celebrating one of Guernsey's best loved exports is doing a roaring trade.
During his tenure with the Devils, Parise rose to become the team's captain and one of the NHL's best all-around forwards, collecting eight goals and 15 points during this year's postseason as New Jersey won its first Eastern Conference championship since 2003.
Other "confirmed" specs are a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G network, and built-in "ebook" app that's supposedly one of the best the tipster's ever used on an Android device.
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He was his party's best hope for the future, and maybe one of his country's best hopes too.
He mercilessly attacked Indiana's Paul George, one of the NBA's best perimeter defenders, scoring 15 points in the third quarter while helping the Knicks erase a 12-point deficit.
PJ's Lager House, one of the city's best dive bars and independent music venues, offers cheap drinks and live music nearly every night, proving that the music scene where Iggy Pop and The White Stripes developed their chops is still alive and well.
It was this hugely popular series that changed Pratchett's life by making him one of the UK's best-selling authors.
In doing so, they've revitalized a moribund farm system, amassing one of baseball's best crops of prospects.
"It's one of the best values in health care, " says Harvard's Cannon.
The trade for Jordan Walden got lost in the shuffle during the Braves' busy offseason, but the right-hander should make one of baseball's best bullpens even better.
Rose's teammate Richard Hamilton, long seen as one of the game's best midrange shooters, said it wouldn't surprise him if Rose improved.
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On a salesperson's first day on the job at one of Best Buy's 759 stores he or she gets a four-hour classroom session that focuses on the required goals, how to fit into the store's sales force and the basics for giving the customer a happy experience.
Once the NBA's scoring leader got in a rhythm, not even one of the league's best defenses could knock him out of it.
It's one of the best serving matches I have had in my career, so that's a positive sign.
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Welsh hurdles rival Green, who won world 4x400m relay silver in 2009, is Britain's number one this year with a season's best time of 48.96 secs.
For a Democrat, a lot of people will say he's one of the best Republicans we've got.
Indonesia's benchmark index has gained 12% this year, making it one of the region's best performers, while Singapore's Straits Times Index has risen 4.15%.
It's one of the best jobs I've ever had.
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"It's one of the best foods in the world for a couple of reasons, and I think it's because it has this very unique trait which is that it is on one side, extremely rich, but on the other, extremely delicate, " Ariane Daguin, the CEO and founder of D'Artagan, a gourmet food company that started 25 years ago supplying Americans with foie gras.
"I think it's one of the best marketing plans I've ever seen put together period, even outside of records, " Stoute said.
"I'm a graduate from one of our country's best universities, " Sara tells me in Isfahan in a quiet voice tinged with palpable frustration.
Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots.
But there's still quite a number of people here who support him, and he is one of the world's best scientists when it comes to cloning of animals.
But Jeb's eldest son, who looks either like Pete Sampras (Lexington's view) or John Kennedy junior (every teenage girl's) and glories in the middle name Prescott, is already proving to be one of the family's best campaigners.
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