I love Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Successful People … Be Proactive – Take responsibility for your life. Begin With the End in Mind – Define your mission and goals in life. Put First Things First – Prioritize and do the most important things first. Think Win-Win – Have an everyone-can-win attitude. Seek Read more about 7 Habits of Successful People[…]
Learning the skill of encouragement is part of the art of teaching. And make no mistake: encouragement is a skill that is learned over time and improved with constant use. How, we ask, can we be most encouraging? The answer is found, in part by reminding ourselves what genuine encouragement is and what it is Read more about The Art of Encouragement[…]
I believe “Reflection” is a healthy way to live our life, especially at the end of each year. We need to look at the past year and reflect on all the positive and negative events of the year, things that went well and those that were not quite as positive as we had intended. Reflection Read more about Year Ends Are for Reflection[…]
We are all trying to be happy! In order to be happy, we need to meet each of our five basic needs. They are: Love and belonging – the need to feel connected, included, a part of a group, friendship, loved and that sense of belonging; Power – the need to feel successful, competent, capable and Read more about Five Basic Needs We Behave For[…]
I found this article by Paul Axtel on line and it’s incredible for parents who wish their children to be successful, confident kids! Note how reading to children helps them in so very many ways! 10 Powerful Things to Say to Your Kids
Short and Memorable: Do your remember your work mission statement? It must be created by each member of the family, meaningful and easy to remember. During the process of sharing our values, all answers must be accepted and jotted down by someone whether you agree or not. Once all family members feel all their values Read more about Social Contracts are Like Family Mission Statements[…]
Why create a social contract in a family? To plan how we will treat each other as a family, based on our beliefs by basing our behavior on our internal pictures we create with each other. When rules are created for children, they generally consider them the adults’ ways of trying to control them even Read more about Why Create a Social Contract?[…]