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Hi, GSD Factor friends!  R.C. Farrish here!    I love sports! I love playing sports and I play a lot of them. I also love watching sports with my family.   I play softball, basketball, flag football, karate, swimming, running and I’m learning to ice skate.   Right now it’s basketball season and this has […]

I’ve been in Tennessee for seven years this year. Every year, since I’ve been here, we’ve had snow at least once, and when it comes, most of the city shuts down. Schools are out, and people are either off work or working from home. This year was no different.     The snow was predicted to […]

  Hi, GSD Factor friends!  R.C. Farrish here!     This year my brother and I have been trying new things. This has been both fun and scary. We have liked some of the new things and not liked other things.    One of those things we tried was flag football. I have loved playing flag […]

One of the favorite shows that my husband and I watch is old reruns of Whose Line Is It Anyway?   It is incredible to watch the few hundred episodes and see how the actors navigate effortlessly through all the various scenarios, their quick wit, creativity, and their lack of fear. Let me explain.    […]

  Be Inquisitive.   The key to being inquisitive is understanding that we are always learning. Your goal is to always be curious and remember to always be a student of life. Being inquisitive gives you the humble awareness that you are not the smartest person in the room, but the knowledge to know how […]

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 […]

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, […]