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Mend Minds of Teens and Boost Trail Blazers

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Inaccurate assumptions about the human brain often lead to harmful outcomes that block our incentives to tackle challenges and grow grit for innovative adventures that improve life for ourselves and those around us. While it’s true that the same boiling water that softens a potato also hardens an egg, it’s… Read more »

Mindset Matters as Seen in 5 Key Questions

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1). How does our mindset propel or prevent learning, laughing and living our best stress-free lives? A growth mindset is open-minded thinking that helps us tackle problems with possibilities. Not that perfection is a good growth mindset target. Bounce back after mistakes though and we create stepping stones into a… Read more »

How do you Feel Lately? Need an Emotional Boost?

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What makes you feel happy? What blocks happiness for you at the moment? Little Billy in Bil Keane’s FAMILY CIRCUS, described his happiness when he said, “I like dogs cause if you’re doing something stupid they don’t yell at you. They do it with you.” Happiness for Billy is adventure… Read more »

Why Mindset Matters in Healthy Cultures

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Before we see how mindset matters we may first want to see how a low EQ fails to grow a healthy culture. Toxic cultures exist in college classes, average work places, and dysfunctional living arrangements and any setting where collective EQ remains low. Here criticism scores higher than support and… Read more »

Critic or Creator? Growth or Fixed Mindset?

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Seeing hope or hell in the difficult place that follows COVID and a pesky pandemic? Simply stated are we merely critiquing ongoing problems or are we creating doable possibilities?  While a growth mindset stokes our creator sense of “I can do this,” our fixed or critical mindset tends to fight… Read more »

Crave Kinder Gentler Spaces?

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What is this grace that adds wings to our dreams and feet to our realities? We look online for friendship only to find fury and frustration. We isolate from loved ones and sadly often suffer alone. We feel caught up in a chaotic work world that demands more and satisfies… Read more »

Grace for Blessing Not Blame

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A grace mindset results in daily practices based on unmerited favor to make choices filled with confidence, inner kindness and genuine grit. We grow resilient to create possibilities when confronted with snags and problems. How so? Divine grace. or favor, is God’s inner gift of perfect, eternal, agape love that… Read more »

Reviews for New Growth Mindset Book

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Being talented and successful doesn’t mean doing everything perfectly; it means believing that your intelligence and personality have the ability to change and grow! THE TEENS’ GROWTH MINDSET WORKBOOK inspires that belief with interactive exercises and bite-sized advice written for all who hope for growth in any area. Learn to feel confident, bounce back from tough breaks, and take on new adventures with a growth mindset.

Can Grace Cover Covid Chaos?

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A good friend asked me recently where God is when people are dying with a pandemic nobody seems to be able to control. To address questions from a young man I golf with often over the years, I revisited the notion of evil we encounter and its impact on each… Read more »