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Powerfully Choosing the Technology for You We are privileged to live in a day and age of technology, figuring out when to use it and when not to use it.  We don’t want to automate our relationships or interactions, but there are some key areas that you can delegate to technology that will free your […]

Powerfully Choosing to be Open to Learning   If we are open, we can learn something from everything, be it from people or from something we read or observe.  Who knows, maybe a billboard has the two words of encouragement you need at that moment.   As I’ve shared in my book, growing up, my […]

Stop Booing Yourself I recently signed up for Threads.  It’s a social media app owned by Meta and designed like Twitter, but without the toxicity.  It’s funny because the last thing I thought I’d ever do was sign up for another social media app, but I like it because I don’t have that many followers.  […]

Introducing R.C. Farrish, GSD Factor Junior Hi, GSD Factor friends!  R.C. Farrish here!   This is the month. It’s my birthday! And my first book comes out and I’m so excited.   GSD Factor Juniors incorporates six stories that happened to me in elementary school.  I wanted to share my stories in hopes of helping others […]

Powerfully Choosing How to Define Those Recently, I had a mentoring session where we were discussing goals and deadlines.  From my perspective, goals are those high-level endpoints that we want to ultimately reach.  Deadlines are the milestones along the way to reaching those goals.  It’s important that we keep in mind the difference between goals […]

A Short Statement of Truth or Conduct Maxim: by Webster’s definition, a maxim is a short statement that expresses a general truth or rule of conduct. When living life, these maxims are small nuggets of reminders that can pack a powerful punch. Just like stories were used to share history and pass along important lessons, […]

Rooms, Tables, and Doors, Oh My! For the last year and a half, I’ve been seeing a therapist. I’ll admit I only started going because therapy seems to be the new cool trend, and because I tend to give in to trends sometimes, I found myself with a therapist.  (Thank goodness, there isn’t a cliff […]

Powerfully Choosing to Be Inquisitive Growth Mindset or being inquisitive has many synergies.  Growth mindset can be defined as believing that your brain can grow and that you can try many new things even as you age.  We define being inquisitive as the capacity to always be learning. Maybe we are learning what to do […]

Mobilizing to Reach a Goal The school year is coming to an end. With two tiny humans who are four years apart, the end-of-year activities and stressors are very different.   For my oldest tiny human, she had to dig a little deeper this academic year.  Last summer we noticed some things that had previously […]