24 Youth Risk Behaviors and the Correlation with Potential

The 24 youth risk behaviors is a topic I recently began to dig in to. One of my passion areas is to help parents discover methods to maximize the potential of their children. As a result, one of my mentors suggested I research an organization named the Search Institute.  This organization is a gold mine […]

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Maximize Potential by Nurturing the Nature of Athletes in Youth Sports

I’m a firm believer in the idea of nurturing the nature of a child in order to maximize potential.  However, I didn’t always think this way.  Rather, it took researching the concepts of strengths psychology made popular by Don Clifton to convince me.  Through this research I became a big fan of the concepts shared […]

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The First Step to Strengths Based Parenting

I read Gallup’s Strengths Based Parenting book by Mary Reckmeyer about four months ago.  Every month since then I find myself referring back to it time and time again as I study how to unlock potential. The premise of the book is simple. Children do their best when you empower them to do what they’re best at.  […]

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