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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 […]

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, […]