by Rich Patterson | May 28, 2019 | Achievement, Encouragement
Perseverance Look closely at this lovely little girl, and you will see she has had some surgery. She had to learn what perseverance was very early in life. A Thank-you to Melissa Labellarte on Unsplash As I sat on my deck and watched the birds for the evening, I...
by Rich Patterson | May 24, 2019 | Achievement, Character, Personal Improvement
Price To Pay My mentor John Maxwell is fond of saying, “Anything worthwhile is always uphill.” When we start to believe that and not try to look for shortcuts, we realize that there is a Price To Pay for success, for personal victory, for healthy...
by Rich Patterson | May 17, 2019 | Personal Improvement
Our Mirror Self Mirror, mirror on the wall, so goes the line in the 1937 Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It’s both “Mirror, mirror, on the” wall” AND “Magic mirror, on the wall” by the way, I want to suggest that...
by Rich Patterson | May 13, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Finding The Middle Ground When we help our kids and ourselves pay attention to the Middle Ground of life, we teach determination, perseverance, and integrity. Those are never bad things to pass on to our kids and reaffirm in ourselves. So often in life, we look...
by Rich Patterson | May 6, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Face What’s Next So many times during the week, we tend to relive the past. Maybe we made a mistake, said something we shouldn’t have, or just lost our temper with someone we love. It seems that our human psyche default is to relive the past, to keep...
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