Tenacity and Grit – Quick Idea to Test if Your Kid Has it

Tenacity is the act of being gritty, persistent, and resolute.  Tenacity is a critical trait to have to reach success in entrepreneurship, elite level sports, and to beat many life threatening diseases that require complete lifestyle changes. You can often observe someone over time and conclude that they are tenacious, if you see them in […]

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Do You Have to Be an Expert or Authority to Build an Audience?

Yesterday I received some feedback that my writing was too authoritative.  The main reason given was that I blog about such a variety of topics that I can’t be an expert on all of them.  Therefore, I should write less authoritative and instead write with more qualifiers. This got me to thinking of two questions: […]

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When Your Culture is Failing You

The best explanation I’ve heard defining what  “culture” is  comes from Seth Godin.  He explains it by simply stating “people like us do things like this.” But what happens when the “this” people like you are doing is killing them.  What happens when the “this” is creating a cycle of unhappiness, hate, stress, poverty, mis-education, or […]

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