There is one thing worse than having no goals. It’s to reach all your goals and still be in the same place you would have been if you had no goals. These types of goals are what I call directionless goals. To understand the tragedy of a directionless goal think about how you would chop […]
Optimist almost always put a positive spin on their expectations for the future. Pessimists are constantly thinking of why things won’t work out. I love the optimistic, “glass half-full” perspective on life. Even when things look bad, feel bad, and continues to trend in a bad direction, I always tend to believe that optimism is […]
The Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, Professor William Damon, PhD, provides several insights about raising purposeful children all parents should know. Moreover, his book The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life is the first place I suggest parents start. It is here where you will find Damon’s research on what […]