Extracurricular Activities Are Important and Here’s Why!
Extracurricular activities provide children of all ages with important life skills and experience that may not be acquired through regular school lessons, and research shows that those who engage in such activities generally go on to be more successful and earn higher salaries in later life. Some of the benefits of taking part in […]
What’s Blocking Your Performance?
David Cook, PhD, former “mental training coach” of the San Antonio Spurs, suggests that performance equals potential minus distractions. This is true. When I was younger friends of my parents used to tell me that I had lots of potential, but I was too easily distracted by a bright-shiny objects. Activities, accomplishments, and awards easily attracted my attention […]
Change Your Habits and Raise Your Self-Esteem!
It’s been said that our self-image and our habits tend to go together and that if we change one then we will automatically change the other. While these are true words indeed, tackling issues of self-esteem unaided can be extremely challenging. Changing habits, on the other hand, is in many cases comparatively easy. When […]
How to Inspire Teenagers!
Since time immemorial, the teenage years have not only represented a challenge to teenagers themselves, but to parents too. The current generation of teens, however, has grown up in a world that is so far removed from anything seen previously that parents can often feel at a loss in terms of how to inspire teens. […]
Just Putt the Ball!!
“Looking for a new putter? Before I make a suggestion, perhaps a few questions will help narrow down the putter that will be right for you. Traditional, belly, forearm, chest, or shoulder? Sideways or face-on? Mallet, blade, or really weird? Face, toe, or heel weighting? Straight steel or plastic insert? Heel, center, or off-set? Steel […]
How Much Time Do You Devote to Learning?
It might be easy or convenient to think that the world’s most successful people were just born with natural abilities that the majority of individuals don’t possess. However, if you were to research these men and women carefully, the common traits you would find are a thirst for knowledge and a dedication to learning. The […]
Parents and Children – We All Need Consistency!
Children need consistency. After all, if the same action meets with smiles and praise one day and yelling and punishment the next, how are they supposed to make any sense of the world? Parents need consistency too. Without it, not only do they make a rod for their own backs in terms of […]
Gr8 Ways to Play with Your Children!
Did you play with your children last week? No guilt trip here. I confess that I didn’t play with my children as they were growing up. Now, I wish I had. Here are several ideas you can use to plan this week’s play time with the family. Try them out. Let me know what worked for you. Have other ideas, […]
Parenting 101: Encourage Responsibility in Our Children and Ourselves
Children need consistency. After all, if the same action meets with smiles and praise one day and yelling and punishment the next, how are they supposed to make any sense of the world? Parents need consistency too. Without it, not only do they make a rod for their own backs in terms of […]
Anyone Seen Any Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (or Home) Lately?
Having excellent academic qualifications, a high IQ and even great technical skills to enable you to carry out your role at work are all very well, but increasingly what employers are looking for is emotional intelligence. Sometimes referred to as EI or EQ, emotional intelligence is essentially the ability to recognize and understand your own […]
