Striving and Thriving “What was that you were doing?” Jean Good asked her husband Scott. He was in the garage, actually trying to have some privacy. He was practicing his newfound sport Tae Kwon Do and didn’t really want her to see him.

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The Mentorship Approach With Kids & Teens How do we get our kids to do what they’re supposed to do? Most of us grew up with basic chores, homework, and house rules. It all seems perfectly logical to us as adults. But our kids don’t seem to agree! When simple directions don’t work, some parents [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 Words like these sound wonderful in an inspirational speech or a sermon. I close my eyes and smile and think, “What a wonderful world.” Then reality walks in wearing flesh and [...]

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Pursuit of Happiness: Work & Play What better way to pursue happiness than by learning how to work at what you love? What better way to combine work and play than by bringing the things you enjoy into your work life? Even better, how about sending yourself on a retreat to have fun, enjoy time [...]

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Pursuit of Happiness: Money I listen to financial advice talk shows from time to time. Two of my favorites are Dave Ramsey on the radio and Suze Orman on television. If you’ve heard both of them, you might have noticed their ideas are different in a lot of ways. They especially differ on how to [...]

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Elephant Burgers For me, scheduling my time is like budgeting my money. If I make a plan for it, I direct it and stay in charge. If I don’t have a plan, I spend some here and spend some there and turn around at the end of the day and wonder where it all went. [...]

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Striving and Thriving Highland Meadow Montessori has three different buildings for classrooms and all three look like part of a farm home. They are white frame with red shutters and dark red shingles. The driveway is named “Miss Pat’s Way” after the school’s long-time Administrator and guiding spirit, Pat Howard. Things at the school are [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Kids & Teens My understanding of children and their psychological development was electrified when I studied play therapy under Dr. Garry Landreth, a world-renowned expert. In addition to giving us his own powerful insight, he introduced our class to great developmental psychologists and child therapists. Among the best of the best [...]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups Around the spring of 1993 I started having two careers. I maintained a part-time therapy practice, and I became co-owner of a child development center with my mother. My responsibilities early on were training and supervising staff specifically on ways to work well with children. Over time I [...]

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Pursuit of Happiness: Work & Play I first learned about the field of Creative Career Choice when I was trying to find my own new career. I “Googled” and “Yahoo’d” different phrases. They led me to ChangingCourse.com and its founder Valerie Young, to Barbara Sher, and to Barbara Winter. I am a huge fan of [...]

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