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For more than a decade, Marion Jones was hailed as the "the fastest woman on the planet". At the 2000 Olympic Game titles in Sydney, Australia, she became the first female ever to win five medals at one Olympics. That same yr, the Associated Press and ESPN named her Athlete of the entire year. She was on the cover of Vogue and Time. She seemed to own it all - popularity, fortune, skill, and international acclaim. Now she is a convicted felon. The difficulty started in 2003 when she lied to national agents about her use of a performance-enhancing medication and her knowledge of a check-fraud scam. In 2007, no more able to live with the lies, she admitted the truth. In a unhappy end from what appeared like a storybook profession, she was stripped of her medals, and her track-and-field documents were wiped from the catalogs. She was incarcerated at Carswell national prison in Fort Worth, Texas - a prison known for its violence and abuse. While there, she kept herself in condition and her sanity intact by operating on a dirt trail and a treadmill machine in the prison's improvised weight room. But her imprisonment had not been the finish for Marion Jones. Actually, it marked a new beginning. She is now using her account to improve the lives of people around the world and inspire others who, like her, face road blocks that appear insurmountable. On the Right Monitor is the candidly advised account of how Marion emerged to grips with her lies and the consequences of her activities, and how she found interpretation in all from it. What she tells her children and has applied to her own life is that whenever you make a mistake, you say it, you recognize the consequences, you move on, you make the incorrect a right. She demonstrates to her children and more to take a respite and pause before making impulsive and probably harmful decisions. In the centre of this reserve are real conditions that we all face: learning to grow through pain; making decisions that will assist us far into the future; overcoming failure and discouragement; and making use of practical principles that time the best way to personal and religious breakthrough.