A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Vlog on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdKndGgqzZg Have you ever been told that you can’t do something because of your age? Yeah… Me too. It’s sad that some people don’t take the time to try to really understand each other. When we talk about other human beings, we have to try …
A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lUx6yYR82U Can we all agree that it seems like life has gotten tougher and there is less room today for complacency? Have you heard the famous Dr. Stephen Covey saying, “Sharpen the Saw” from his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People? So what does ‘Sharpen the …
A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MteoQh3bRWU Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. Nobody knows my sorrow… Sorry, folks, but trouble is just part of life. Sometimes, we all feel like singing the blues with Louis Armstrong. Life doesn’t always go the way we want. Life rarely goes the way we want. So when …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
