How to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions: 10 proven strategies that work!

Written by Alan D. Benson It is the new year, and many of us have new year resolutions that we aim to achieve. Setting these resolutions can be exciting and daunting, whether losing weight, getting a job promotion, or learning a new skill. While some of us have great intentions to attain them, staying on course to achieve them can be difficult. Unfortunately, studies have shown that only a few people achieve their New Year’s…

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Are You Living a Life Where Nothing Seems to Go Your Way? How to Change Your Negative Circumstances into Positive Outcomes

By Alan D. Benson Life can be very complex, and our circumstances are vital in how we feel, react, and stay motivated. In some situations, we can control, while in others we cannot. Adverse circumstances, such as being laid off or fired from a job or a relationship breakup, could paralyze who we are and how we move forward. Those situations or any negative situation could play on our psyche. Before we know it, we…

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Education + X = A Sustainable Life

Recently I attended an educational conference where it was stated that by 2020, the City of Louisville will have a workforce demand for 40,000 additional degreed positions. As part of the conference, the groups gathered to discuss strategies to ensure that youth go to and graduate from college.  While I adamantly agree that there should be strategies and systems in place to equip youth to further their education, in today’s society, obtaining a degree is…

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