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Guidance on The Road to Success

RESEARCH HAS SHOWN that young people who have a mentor have better school attendance, are more likely to enroll in college, are more likely to participate in extracurricular activities and therefore avoid risky behavior. However, one in three young people … Continue reading

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Journaling: Friendship

What does being a friend mean to you How could you be a better friend to others~ and to yourself? Compare you answers with a close friend.

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Guidance on the road to success

social science research shows that it is very difficult for a child to break a cycle of poverty without a relationship with a person from an advocate network outside the child’s family. -Most people who have strived in life would … Continue reading

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The Best and The Worst

The best advice I ever got: Be immune to criticism and responsive to feedback. It helped me break out of conformity. The worst :  “Don’t rock the boat” It kept me under the hypnosis of social conditioning for long time. … Continue reading

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What’s the best way to give criticism?

A Buddhist response – Before offering criticism, consider your intentions. It’s easy for ulterior motives to color the feedback you give. How are you entering the conversations? With judgment? A desire to control. Are you hoping to intimidate -or to … Continue reading

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