A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ZiqU6oAPM I once did an Internet search on how many studies have been done on sadness and depression. The number was about 40,000. Then I did a search for studies on happiness. About 40 popped up. Wow, I thought out loud as I smiled and then said to myself, …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcorknLiaM Our daily habits are those little things that we do every day without much thought. Our outer circumstances are those things that surround us every day that we are thinking too much about. Sadly, most of us can’t stop thinking about how our outer circumstances are holding us …
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A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnexIjJzzMU How many times have you heard someone say, “Oh they are so lucky!” or “That person always wins. They must have some real luck on their side.” Yeah… I’m sure we have all heard these things. I have to agree with you that it does sometimes seem that …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U4SdBWbh-g Wasn’t it Einstein that said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results? Do things the same and we’ll get the same, right? And do something different and we’ll get something different, right? Simple! Not easy, …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxCa06_stDo We all have a purpose! Every one of us dreams with a purpose about something, or at least we used to purposely dream about something. Contemplate this: What if those old important and purposeful dreams could come alive again? What if we could breathe some new life back …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIdns9ulRkM Wasn’t it William Faulkner who said, “I never know what I think about something until I’ve read what I’ve written.”? William Faulkner was ahead of his time and really onto something here with his wise written words. The written word has been an amazing gift to …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTOlzOXkhe8 Do you remember when people used to ask what you wanted to be when you grew up? Many of us responded with something courageous like a fireman, or a movie star. We dreamed of lives filled with skill and courage where fear never entered our minds. Our future …
A Teen Leadership Blog! Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI2lGxp3YAs Just because something is written down, it doesn’t mean that it is true. Nor does it mean it is relevant to each of our own unique needs. It took me many years of reading before I realized that I wasn’t just reading. But, what I was really doing …
A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiiPZeZLGWY Today, a friend of mine, expressed how sore her legs were after a recent workout. As a joke, I asked her if she wanted me to help her walk up the stairs. She replied with a painful laugh that climbing up the stairs wasn’t the problem. It was …
A Teen Leadership Blog Watch Dan’s Vlog on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbOB248_QA Some people tend to remember the past as the good old days, others remember the past as anything but good. In considering our future progress, neither way of remembering the past is ideal because, our past doesn’t equal our future. Our past should not be forgotten, …
