A Teen Leadership Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9ArOKWzRg How many times have we heard the old adage of “mind over matter” or “If you really believe you can achieve”? A bunch, right? Well, there is a good reason for that, and it is because it works to some degree’! But what happens when it doesn’t work? Where do you […]
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZLwPCeRdk There had been a terrible accident and the two teens found themselves standing above their incapacitated father who was pinned to the ground under their smashed up 3,000 pound sports utility vehicle. At that very moment in their lives these two teen boys did not have the
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUWkkGH90 Many years ago I read a tiny, little, book that I thought made a lot of sense to me. This book was called, Die Broke. This little book is in alignment with the title of this blog, Giving While Living. According to this little book, Die Broke too
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOfizOTmi5k I know this title seems a little confusing, but sometimes life is confusing too, right? Well let me take a shot at explaining what this concept of trying to gain more certainty in your uncertainty is all about. What I’m going to say next is very important so
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJG8rcupgRI Labels! Oooh… Ralph Lauren… Oooh… Polo… Nike… Oooh… Labels. Look at all the labels that we’re surrounded by everyday, everywhere we go, and everywhere we look! Are you wearing any labels? Have you allowed anyone to place a label on you? Has anyone ever labeled you as,
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNljrpXClsc Practice alchemy! What? “What the heck is alchemy?” you’re probably thinking. Well, according to the dictionary it is: A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.
Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMY5yS0aUys The Ancient Greek Roman Emperor and famed orator, Marcus Arelis, once said, “A man’s greatest tragedies usually leads to a man’s greatest successes!” Have you ever failed miserably at something and thought all was lost? I know I have, and it really hurt… Have you ever seen
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajjxuD5lhI History is filled with names of successful people who grew up starved for a little praise… It is said that Napoleon’s last words on his deathbed were, “I wonder what that teacher thinks of me now!” Praise, or the holding of praise, is a very powerful tool
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26U_seo0a1g What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! I’m sure that we have all been awed more than once by all of our beloved Hollywood-made heroes. You know the kind I’m talking about. They are the ones that have been struck down, but yet refuse to give up.
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Teen Leadership and Mentoring Blog Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0S9H4uPqk The great philosopher Nietzsche once said, “One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.” Some of you right about now are probably asking who the heck is this Nietzsche guy, and what the heck is he talking about? Well, I must
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