by Rich Patterson | May 24, 2019 | Achievement, Character, Personal Improvement
Price To Pay My mentor John Maxwell is fond of saying, “Anything worthwhile is always uphill.” When we start to believe that and not try to look for shortcuts, we realize that there is a Price To Pay for success, for personal victory, for healthy...
by Rich Patterson | May 22, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Family & Relationships
Holes In Your Heart We are all incomplete in a sense. I mean, we are always a work in progress. A friend called them “Holes In Your Heart.” That phrase stuck with me because, in so many ways, we all have holes in our hearts. They may come from...
by Rich Patterson | May 20, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Injustices Do you know anyone who, every time you get into a heated debate they get hysterical? Maybe it is yourself? It seems like getting angry, calling people names, and getting hysterical is now in fashion. It is now okay with so many people because we have...
by Rich Patterson | May 17, 2019 | Personal Improvement
Our Mirror Self Mirror, mirror on the wall, so goes the line in the 1937 Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s both “Mirror, mirror, on the” wall” AND “Magic mirror, on the wall” by the way, I want to suggest that...
by Rich Patterson | May 15, 2019 | Communication, Parenting, Personal Improvement
Helping Young Women As a teacher of many years, I have often noticed that young women retreat into silence as the more aggressive males in the classroom dominate the conversations. As adults, we are a part of various groups of youth that we either teach or have...
by Rich Patterson | May 13, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Finding The Middle Ground When we help our kids and ourselves pay attention to the Middle Ground of life, we teach determination, perseverance, and integrity. Those are never bad things to pass on to our kids and reaffirm in ourselves. So often in life, we look...
by Rich Patterson | May 10, 2019 | Achievement, Character, Encouragement
Being Relentless Take the opportunity now to be relentless in letting go of the past and pursuing the greatness that awaits you. When we want something to the level that is consuming our passion, then rise up and relentlessly pursue the victory that awaits us. It...
by Rich Patterson | May 8, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
The Struggle Is Part of It We get worn out with life’s twists and turns sometimes. It can get to the point where we would like to catch a break and have things fall into line for us. That is when I remind myself of John Maxwell’s quote, “Everything...
by Rich Patterson | May 6, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Face What’s Next So many times during the week, we tend to relive the past. Maybe we made a mistake, said something we shouldn’t have, or just lost our temper with someone we love. It seems that our human psyche default is to relive the past, to keep...
by Rich Patterson | May 3, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement, Resilience
Hold Your Image My mentor, Paul Martinelli, is known for saying, “Hold Your Image.” For a while, I’m not sure that I understood what he was saying until the past few months, as I have been actively working on that very thought process. Many...
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