Kids today are busier than ever. School is just a small portion of their day. Extracurricular activities and sports have taken over the once lazy afternoons. Spring is here and a new sports season has begun. If your kids schedule is becoming a burden on your time, here are 10 Parenting Tips to help you manage Afterschool Activi

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Many scientists are now saying that “targeted” natural gifts do not exist at all. You are not born a CEO or chess grandmaster. Rather, greatness is achieved by hard, focused work over many years.

It turns out that it’s not just hard work that is required. What is required is focused, consistent practice over a long period of

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"Fake it till you make it" is an often used suggestion to build confidence. This post give an overview of eight ways to start faking it. It includes two rather embarrassing videos, to illustrate the point of practice and not worrying about what others think. But goes onto to say not to worry at all - worrying is like pouring

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I'm not an expert on piano, but I've learned a few things from teaching myself to play. All these tips come down to one simple principle about practicing. If you can remember to play slowly and ignore the voice in your head that says certain parts are too difficult, then you'll be on your way to playing well. And if you keep

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When I looked at how big a job it would be to stop and delete all the unwanted files on my desktop at work, I realized that a similar thing occurs in life. We save all these files which in the end serve no useful purpose, or in many ways come back and drag us out of the present just when we least expected it. I suggest five way

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