Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHP5MKgK0o8 Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator "He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down, but he is strong and powerful who holdeth himself from anger," said an old wise man many years ago named Mohammed the Prophet. Sometimes anger has a way [...]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNYxbHbT_A Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator Taking the time needed to get to know yourself is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, your family, and your community! According to Socrates, one of our greatest thinkers of all-time, getting to [...]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMUb4uQZoo Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator Presenteeism! What the heck is that? Did I mean absenteeism? No, not exactly... We all know what absenteeism is. And we know how it can be very detrimental to our success if we are absent a lot. But, [...]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkH-O1NfJ-0 Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator Although I do admit this is probably one of my Granddaddy's simpler secrets of success, I also have to admit though that this simple secret of success is hard for me. Why do I consistently struggle with such [...]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ial714wZg_0 Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator There is an old African proverb that goes something like this, Never test the depth of the water with both feet. You can picture this, can't you? Yeah, dreaming BIG is a little scary. And we probably shouldn't [...]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUEN9FvtqU Dan Blanchard award-winning author, speaker and educator Face it, folks. There is no way of getting around life's rainstorms. Our battle scars from these storms make us who we are. We should wear these battle scars with pride like they were a luxurious coat of [...]