I believe that if we practice the things we find challenging, sooner or later they become easy. The trick is finding the motivation to practice those things that aren’t necessarily pleasant.

For example, I have my kids practice school work a couple times per week during their 2-month summer break. Each of them focuses on specific areas their teachers have noted as needing improvement. By the time school starts again, their confidence is up because they’ve faced their most challenging subjects. ...

When life isn’t going your way, do you empower yourself to make improvements or do you just accept things the way they are? Most people are great at getting themselves worked up into a state that’s anything but empowering. When things get challenging, we need to take a moment to release the emotions and then decide if you want to take that next step to making an improvement.

We all have the power to overcome our negative thinking and ...

Let’s go back to elementary school for a moment. Remember when we were all very proud to bring home that bean we planted at school? How excited we got when we saw the first shoot emerge? How it got bigger and bigger and bigger…until it was ready to take home and show our parents what we accomplished?

If you haven’t tried this experiment in school, well guess what: I am going to ask you to do it today. No, you are ...

I want to share an amazing story with you today that shows dreams really do come true. Before I do though, I want to ask you something. Are you working on your goals we talked about last week? Did you take one small action step towards that goal? Awesome! Give yourself a hug. If you didn’t yet, what is holding you back? Let’s try to pick one small thing we can do for ourselves this week. When we set a ...