These “Woodshed Moments” are equivalent to grabbing ner-do-wells by the scruff of the neck to get their attention and saying “Straighten up and fly right or else — and here’s why”!
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but everything you need to know about life did NOT accrue to you in kindergarten. And you won’t get it all in high school. For sure, you won’t pick it up on the street, on a bar stool or in a pool hall. And the…
Sitting at a stop light with my mind wa/ondering on and off about nothing and everything all at the same time, I became peripherally aware of a small, gray, animated “presence” moving along the sidewalk. It would alternately roll over, then climb a small wall, then turn itself inside out, hurry on down the sidewalk,…
Either PAY or GET PAID. It’s that simple! How much are we paying (i.e., investing versus wasting) for the privileges we enjoy and how much are we getting paid for the services we provide? The balance sheet at the end of the day simply needs to show a net gain, else we’re…
If you’ve made it past birth, early development, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school with no major glitches and relatively unscathed by major medical maladies, you’re probably endowed with a fairly decent set of genes. The real question is: What have you DONE with what you’ve got? Behavioral scientists have long…
You may be astonished, as I have been, to learn that the failure rate beyond high school and beyond college is much greater than it is in matriculation through those institutions. Endless studies point out how much trouble there is with formal education today … with great numbers of high school students not being college-ready…