February 3, 2010

• 30 Years Later…

  1969- Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. That was an incredible accomplishment. (…)

January 10, 2010

• Which is more important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Therefore, these two ideas, motivation and confidence are powerful predictors that help us to anticipate if someone is going to achieve their goals or not. (…)

December 21, 2009

• Which is more Important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Motivation and/or confidence continued.
  I received some spectacular news today. (…)

December 17, 2009

• Which is more important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Motivation and/or Confidence Continued
  The direction of these scores if vital for the success of the student. (…)

December 15, 2009

• Which is more important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Motivation and/or Confidence continued.
  I explain this scale in the same way as I describe the motivation scale, I talk about the low end of the scale (1) the high end (10) and then the middle (5). (…)

December 11, 2009

• Which is More Important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Motivation and/or confidence continued.

  Confidence on the other hand, is a person’s perceptions of their own abilities to achieve a stated outcome. (…)

December 9, 2009

• Which is more important, Motivation or Confidence?

  Motivation and/or  Confidence
  Motivation is the amount of or level of desire to accomplish a specified outcome. (…)

November 30, 2009

• Are you lazy, unmotivated and basically moronic?

  A few days ago, I was listening to a speaker talking about how lazy, unmotivated and basically moronic most people are when it comes to running their own lives. (…)

November 12, 2009

• Wrap it up please and other problems with cramming

  Imagine this. You are out for dinner and when the server brings your meal, instead of eating it, you wrap it up and take it home and put it in the fridge. (…)

November 11, 2009

• Lost in Transition

  Many high school students are overwhelmed by their first semester of university or college. (…)

November 10, 2009

• Say it again Sam

  Today, I just wanted to leave you a quick tip as a thank you for viewing my blog. (…)

November 9, 2009

• Core Courses… or is it Core Curses?

  Being unique in personality and interests is not a mutually exclusive idea from having to do things that are of little inherent interest. We all have to do both. (…)

November 6, 2009

• "But I don't want to do that"

  This is why I believe that children have to be exposed to the idea that they are going to have to do loads of things they don't like and that they don't want to do in this life, in order to get to do some of the things that they really like. (…)

November 5, 2009

• The Problem of too Much Praise for too Little Performance

  In North America, we tell our kids that they can have, do or be, anything they want. What do they hear when we say that? (…)