Why do we allow the past to inform our present and direct our future? 

How can we build our way forward when past evidence suggests we can't? 

Encouragement from Hal Elrod, Design Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett and Lindsay Helm of Stand Strong Training.

Fresh idea on a new role for school systems. The Director of Teacher Happiness. Can you take this idea and make it better? 

How Are You Keeping Score? 

This Might Not Work

And That's Great! 

Today's encouragement focuses on what to do with your buts. 

Don't worry, it's safe for work, children, and animals. 

Lessons learned from middle school and bad Forrest Gump jokes. 

Be a "Try Hard"

Today's encouragement comes inspired by Upstream, by Dan Heath. 

In the book, Heath focuses on solving problems Upstream (before they happen) rather than Downstream (after the fact). 

Listen in to hear how you can apply this to your relationships with your students, co-workers, spouse, children and your career. 

Problem blindness can cause us to ignore things that need our attention, particularly in our relationships. 

I'm pulling for you. 

Are you facing a gravity problem? 

What can you do about it? 

What if it's not a gravity problem? 

Today's encouragement inspired by Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Feel like you're drowning? It might be okay. 

Listen in for some quick encouragement. 

Feel like you're drowning? 

Here's a little encouragement.