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 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...
by Rich Patterson | Apr 26, 2019 | Parenting, Personal Improvement, Resilience
40 Assets for Youth – Internal Assets In the previous two blogs, I discussed the 40 Developmental Assets for Youth from the Search Institute (www.search-institute.org). In the last blog, we discussed the External Assets, and in this writing, I will discuss the...
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