Author: W

Tips for parents:

Praise the effort not the result.

Say: great training instead of great performance.

Encourage failure.

Ask: how did you fail today and what did you learn about it?

Teach them to tell time and manage it. Put clocks in their rooms.

Schedule outdoor time.

Let them get bored …. please! Boredom is the precursor to creativity. Give them unstructured play time. Give them access to stuff that can play with and create things with…. like tapes and garbage bags and scrap paper.

Have family meetings! Teach them democracy and a way to participate in decision making.

Skills employers say that new graduates are lacking. Check them out. Yes google it.

Maria Dismondy

88% of adolescence saw someone cyberbullied

56% got cyberbullied at least once

1% reported it to a teacher

10% reported it to a parent

30% had suicidal thoughts due to bullying

6% of Michigan students were absent due to not feeling safe at school. 26% of them bullied in school.

#defeatthelabel

“Comparison is the thief of joy”

“Job hopping early in Career is associated with higher incomes. “

Try more of what you want and Quit more of what doesn’t work.

Shoot your reputation or fear in the head if it holds you back.

Align your actions to your goals, and your feelings to your intention.

Hunger is a habit, not a real feeling unless you are in an Ethiopian drought.

According to research, you need to have 10,000 hours of practice in something to make you an expert in it.

That’s about 250 weeks or 5 years of full time work.

Everything in life is a Trade-off. Choosing to do one thing means not doing something else. The opportunity cost is never predictable nor limited. The options are infinite. Life is too short to even comprehend your choices.

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” Henry David Thoreau

Time is not equal money, because you can always get more money. Time is priceless.

Strategic Quitting of things is sometimes better than grit.

Research shows that the most motivating thing is:

“progress in meaningful work”