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Week 18

Tis the season y'all!  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas this year. My family has been blessed beyond measure and I am just so incredibly thankful for this season of goodness.  I love Christmas and I love Christmas traditions. The lights, the decorations, the food, the family, the presents, the pure joy you see on a child's face Christmas morning. My family is known for having some interesting (to say the least) traditions. Growing up we didn’t have lots of money. So, on Christmas my parents used to buy us our own name brand cereal as a Christmas gift. It was a gift we look forward to every year, because you didn’t have to share your cereal with anyone unless you wanted to share. Plus, it was the name brand so we felt rich! Ha! The joys of childhood.  Another unique tradition we had was giving a fake snake to a different family member each year. This all started because my wonderful father is a very mean man! I’m half kidding, of course. Dad spent several mo...

Week 15, 16, & 17

I'd like to kind of geek out on y'all, if that's okay? A Stanford psychologist  Carol Dweck , author of  Mindset: The New Psychology of Success  has spent about two decades providing the formula (if I may) to success. She believes each individual establishes one of two types of mindsets. You either live your life under the contents of a "fixed mindset" or a "growth mindset" and there seems to be a correlation between an individual's success and their mindset. Here's how it works. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS820US820&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=pykIXODuO_O-0PEPsZOZ8Ao&q=fixed+mindset+vs+growth+mindset&oq=fixed+mindset+vs+growth+mindset&gs_l=img.3..35i39j0l4.53296.53296..54094...0.0..0.94.94.1....1..1....1..gws-wiz-img.MVDX9MT7c-0#imgrc=Y11pAAWH5ODqOM : This fascinates me! I love learning these types of things. Learning to improve one's self is always a good thing and this growth mindset philosop...