A Teen Leadership Blog What Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctg15NlxWN0 Imagine how sad it would be to own the world’s most advanced super-computer and to never truly use its unmatched super powers. Well, guess what? Many of us are doing that exact thing right now! We all own the world’s most capable super-computer that ever existed, and […]
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A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zGj_Z02kU I should do my homework now instead of later. I should go to the gym now instead of later. I should get started on that long-term project now instead of later. I should… I should… I should… Guess what? When we do all this shoulding, all we’re really
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A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2KSEW3QV5Q Mistakes simply show us something that we didn’t already know. Hmm… It sounds like those dreaded mistakes that we’re so afraid of… and those dreaded mistakes that we try so hard to avoid… don’t really have to be looked at as dreaded mistakes and painful experiences after all.
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A Teem Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWL4zx2Tfw Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, they truly are the way that we learn. If we never make any mistakes than we’re obviously not trying BIG enough things! If we’re not making any mistakes then we’re not stretching enough and giving ourselves a chance to expand to our
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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=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=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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