by Rich Patterson | Mar 20, 2020 | aggression, balance, be yourself, Behaviors, character, Difficult Times, Focus, integrity, morals, Personal improvement, Relationships, resolving conflicts, Self-Improvement, Stoicism
Keep Your Center Welcome to my 300th blog post, pretty much consecutive at three postings a week for just short of two years straight. Let’s get into our topic of Keep Your Center. You must pay attention to being centered, particularly right now, during the...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 11, 2020 | Personal improvement, Poise, Positive, Positive and Negative Thoughts, Positive behaviors, thought vibration, Thoughts, Trust, Visualization
Your Thought Vibrations-2 As I have been writing in the previous post when we think we set vibrations into motion that can either benefit us or bring about that which we do not want. Just as there are frequencies that the human ear cannot hear, and there are light...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 4, 2020 | Confidence, Determination, Difficult Times, face the future, motivation, Personal improvement, Personal Standards, Perspective, religious, Stoicism, Stoics
Face What’s Next One of the best ways to heal yourself is to let go of the past. We can’t relive the past, so let’s face what’s next. Let’s say you said something that you regret. You would like to go back in time and erase it, but you...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 2, 2020 | Determination, Difficult Times, Family love, Patience, Perseverance, Persistence, Personal Freedom, Personal improvement, Restoration, Stoicism, Stoics
Restoration Mentality There are many experiences in life that fall short. Many interactions that should have gone better, either on our part or that of others. But, what if I said that we’re here to experience and to keep our center, to keep our faith and...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 14, 2020 | Perceptions, Personal Freedom, Personal improvement, Personal Standards, Perspective
Train Your Perceptions – 2 We have been talking about modulating your emotions, which is monitoring them to reduce the intensity and length of an emotional outburst, mainly as applied to anger. Another tool of Executive Function is focusing, shifting of...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 27, 2019 | Arts, Assets for Youth, Band, Being your best, Choir, Confidence, Determination, Extracurricular activities, friends, Friendship-Making Skills, Perseverance, Persistence, Personal improvement, Personal Standards, Resilience
Kids’ Involvement in the Arts Is your young person involved in band, orchestra, or choir or takes lessons on a musical instrument? Research has shown that kids’ who are involved in the arts, which can also include theater, dance, literature, visual arts,...
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