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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 […]

Powerfully Choosing to Make Something Cool As adults, we may overcomplicate concepts or ideas.  We think that using a lot of words or more fancy words is going to make something super important and perhaps more sticky,  but in reality, there are times when we need to keep things simple.  There is beauty in the […]

Being Imaginative this Summer Hi, GSD Factor friends!  R.C. Farrish here!  I’m excited to be writing to you again.  For today’s topic I’m going to talk about being imaginative and how I’ve been activating and practicing that GSD Factor attribute this summer.   During the summer break from school I go to a number of […]

Powerfully Choosing to Slow Down to Speed Up Slowing down to speed up.   If you have been around me, listened to my podcasts or read my blogs you know that I love saying this phrase.  It’s such a simple phrase that holds weight and power.  It resonates with everyone, no matter our age or […]