Building Confidence

I remember when, as a 9 year old, while participating in an elementary group class sing along, I was ridiculed and felt extremely small for singing the harmony of a song instead of the melody like everyone else. In that embarrassing moment I decided that I was never going to sing in public again. That decision made me not sing …

Confidence Comes With Knowledge

Some people think confidence comes from achieving great things. But that isn’t true. Find out where confidence really comes and discover concrete ways to increase it here…

The Thin Line Between Persistence and Stubbornness

It’s important to develop persistence in order to reach your goals. But there’s a negative side of persistence that leads to destructive behavior. Sandra Gallagher explains the difference between the two, and how to make sure your persistence works for you rather than against you.

Close Those Doors

In 1949, a young fifteen-year-old sophomore student from Plainfield High School in New Jersey made a decision to become the greatest athlete in the world. A pretty ambitious objective; an idea that most fifteen year olds wouldn’t even dream about. But Milt Campbell has proved to the world he was no ordinary fifteen year old. You see Milt had been …

The Obstacle Course

Obstacles are something everyone encounters in life. The trick of a successful life is to conquer the obstacles as they appear. I can vividly remember doing my basic training in the navy many years ago. We would get hauled out of bed at a ridiculous hour and marched in the cold to an obstacle course. I was very young at …