What you think does matter

How to Create the Motivation to Do Well in School? Children can play video games for hours, they forget the time while they are running wild on a football field or soccer field, but ask them to sit for a few minutes to do math or science and all hell breaks loose. Getting children motivated in learning can be a difficult chore at best. Here are a few tips to help create the motivation to do well in school and in all future endeavors in life. How to Create the Motivation to Do Well in School? Children can play video games for hours, they forget the time while they are running wild on a football field or soccer field, but ask them to sit for a few minutes to do math or science and all hell breaks loose. Getting children motivated in learning can be a difficult chore at best. Here are a few tips to help create the motivation to do well in school and in all future endeavors in life. First Step: Start early. By this I mean early as in the literal sense – learning should be a fun exper...

I always love interesting stories and this one is just that - very interesting. Why I Choose to be Rich and Homeless How much could you pack in a single suitcase? Thirty-six-year-old Natalie Sisson manages to fit her entire life in one bag. For nearly four years, Sisson has been homeless. But it’s not what you think. The New Zealand native travels the world, living out of her suitcase and running a business from her laptop. She doesn’t have a permanent residence and calls herself ‘The Suitcase Entrepreneur,” also the title of her blog and book. “People think that I’m either crazy, a little bit strange or they think it sounds fantastic,” she says. “I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world. Wherever I place my suitcase, that’s kind of my home.” She identifies as a new breed of worker, the “digital nomad,” someone who works exclusively online and isn’t tied to a single geographic location. “I have about eight revenue streams. My blog brings in some form of advertising...

I am a funny Dad for a logical reason... Growing up without a father and watching my mother do her best to raise us all – seven children by the way, all on her own, it breed in me a deep need to be the best father, parent and husband I could be. Now I am not saying I am the best, my wife I am sure can come up with a few complaints to prove that I am simply trying my best to be good at these things. But as I watch my children grow up I learn more and more each day and one of the things I am constantly reminded and struggle hard to achieve can be summed up in one famous quote: “Our children need our presence, not our presents.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . If there is anything I can do for my children, with all my heart I will do it. The reason I joke around, act like a child when others are working so hard to be sophisticated, mature and oh so proper – is because I know time is short. Life flies by and before you know it the kids are grown, you are old and you are wondering ...

Is $10,000 dollars a good enough reason to read: it’s a secret! I love ready and while my children love to read as well the difference in what I read and what my children read varies greatly. I know – get to the point, what about the $10,000 dollars for reading? But before I reveal my wonderful delicious secret let me make something clear – reading can make you rich! Ok, reading can make you a large sum of money. It all depends on what you read. As I stated before, my children love to read, they have been watching me read since they were babies and I have always pushed them, motivated them to read – luckily, it has work. This is why they are wonderful successful students. But what I read is not Twilight, Hunger games, Harry Potter and the sort – oh, don’t get me wrong I read those books because I want to know what my children are reading and it makes it easier to have conversations with them if I know what is rattling inside that little brain of theirs. But what I read are books...

An Amazing teacher an Amazing person Watching this teacher makes me proud, I have had wonderful teachers in my life and I am glad to see one more example of what a really caring, intelligent and amazing teacher can be to students. Don’t take my word for it, simply watch the video and see for yourself. When he says and I quote: “one size fits all does not work” I totally agreed with him – but when it came to the part of the video, when it showed his home life, his son – it hit a cord deep inside me. I could relate, I could understand. No I do not have a son in a similar condition – but I had a brother, his name was Albert and he was just like his son and he grew worse over time. When he spoke about being pissed with God, it brought back so many memories of arguments, one sided debates I had with God, I was angry about so much in my life and having no father I felt robbed that my older brother was suffering thru this…… There were nights I would pray asking God to heal him or to...

Please do not take offense - just some of the funny political COMICs of 2013 that are on my favorite list. Check them out.    

How did Jefferson know? John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad govern...