A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkmvfHMynQ Some people say First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ran the White House on the days President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was too sick to do it. If she did, she would have been in a position that would have been very foreign and seemed pretty much impossible to almost […]
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A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZpXhZZSpss Franklin Delano Roosevelt was trapped in a wheelchair and couldn’t stand on his own without assistance. However, FDR managed to get elected President of the United States four times! How? Well, for one thing, he didn’t let polio keep him flat on his back doing “nothing;” instead,
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A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goee4_EoU_g Thousands of years ago the Ancient Greeks understood the benefits of exercising both their minds and bodies! Unfortunately, today some people are picking one over the over. Some schools have cut back on gym classes and/or recess time in order to gain more academic seat time. And some
A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB8vme-hCTw Everybody is good at something. Everybody has at least one thing that they like to spend their energy and time on. This one thing is usually a different thing for most of us. We are all very different and we all have that one very different thing
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A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4EL3wyuidA We can have anything we want, if we want it bad enough, and are willing to pay the price. That’s great news, isn’t it? So the world is our oyster after all, right? This is awesome! So let’s go get what we want! Wait. Hold on a
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A Teen Leadership Blog WATCH DAN’S VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysnFcNFeDgc My Granddaddy once told me true GREATNESS couldn’t begin until one is truly GRATEFUL!!! Someone else told me that the greatest virtue of them all is gratefulness. I’ve also heard somewhere that all other virtues come from gratefulness. Hmm… So I guess that’s the Secret! To live a truly great
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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