by Rich Patterson | Jul 30, 2018 | Encouragement, Parenting
Parenting on Purpose: Perseverance In part four of my series Parenting on Purpose, I address perseverance. How do you keep going when you don’t feel like it? Teach this life skill to your kids by example. When I think of how I learned perseverance, I credit... by Rich Patterson | Jul 18, 2018 | Communication, Personal Improvement
Send The Message Once Often when we have a problem or a difficult circumstance, we may turn to friends, faith, or a significant other and ask for help. Exercising belief is essential to teach our kids, and ourselves, to send a message once. It shows a lack of... by Rich Patterson | Jun 13, 2018 | Character, Communication, Family & Relationships
Kids & A Spruce Bog A Spruce Bog in a forest are open areas where the trees are a big scraggly, the bushes and trees stunted, and they can be enormous with open grass areas. They are the result of irregular water drainage and highly acidic water. Ironically some... by Rich Patterson | Jun 8, 2018 | Achievement, Encouragement, Resilience
This Present Moment is Only Temporary Think back to when you were a kid and how long things seemed to last. Do you remember your holiday break in December? It seemed like it lasted a month or more when it was two weeks at the most. For our youth, time passes very... by Rich Patterson | May 2, 2018 | Communication, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Personal Improvement
Question Progressions In the previous post, I talked about “Do You Ask Good Questions.” I think this is very important because none of us see life as it is; we see it as we are. Let’s look at how questions progress in Question Progressions. That...
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