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Fall is here, and the older I get the more I appreciate this season.  We can learn so much from observing nature, and here are a couple of lessons I’m learning from Fall.   Death can be beautiful.  I know that sounds crazy, but hear me out.  Though we can clearly see a literal death […]

I recently got a chance to hear Stuart Weitzman, American shoe designer, entrepreneur, and founder of the shoe company, Stuart Weitzman, speak at an event.   He shared his key “truisms” that have sustained him throughout his entrepreneurial journey. To hear about those once-in-a-lifetime moments that he held onto and maximized as they related to […]

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 boost their confidence and encourage them […]

Be confident.   The sentence is simple, but the concept is rather complex. This first and possibly most important GSD Factor attribute is composed of three smaller tenets: Knowing and embracing your true authentic self Using your voice Finding your passion and dedication. Once you identify and embrace all three of these tenets, you can […]

Hi, GSD Factor friends!  R.C. Farrish here!   This year at our school our theme of the year is love your people.   Our principals and teachers have been teaching us about what this means.  We have been talking about why it’s important.  And finally how we can show how to love people.  This is my […]

Powerfully Choosing to Lead with Confidence Being born in the 1980s and raised by a Dad that was in business, I was raised with all of the offerings of the successful motivational world, such as attending Success Seminars to hear the likes of Zig Ziglar, listening to cassette tapes of Brian Tracy and Stephen Covey, […]

Powerfully Choosing to Recognize the Positives Powerfully Choosing to See the Positives   “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”   If you had to read A Tale Of Two Cities in high school, then you probably instantly recognize this famous quote as the first line of the classic novel by Charles […]

Powerfully Choosing to Welcome Anxiety If you have tiny humans, you have likely seen the movie Inside Out 2 this summer, which playfully introduces additional emotions, such as anxiety for the main character, Riley, as she enters her teenage years.  To summarize, anxiety is frazzled, with lots of energy, always thinking ten steps ahead, striving for perfection, […]

Knowing when a Break is Needed I’m a Georgia girl at heart, born and bred.  I’m from a very small town called Adel.  It’s about forty miles north of the Florida-Georgia line.  It’s as country as country gets.  I’m talking about people driving around town in tractors and lawn-mowers country.  I haven’t lived there in […]