<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="jim stovall " class="alignleft" />Down the street from my office is a very large media complex containing a TV station, several radio stations, and a large conference center. At one corner of the massive building, there is a large fenced area where several radio and TV broadcast towers soar hundreds of feet into the air. 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