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Reaching kids in time- How powerful afterschool activities build young leaders By: C. Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach There is a lot of talk these days about cutting back on budgets and eliminating afterschool activities for kids. Cutting out sports, music, drama and journalism to send students home early, often to an empty house, is a bad plan for...

Announcing the arrival of “Heck on Heels,” my new collection of essays! Here's the text of the press release I'm sending out into the universe... "This is the second collection of essays by award-winning Wisconsin writer and photographer Mary T. Wagner. “Heck on Heels” follows Wagner’s debut collection, “Running with Stilettos: Living a Balanced Life in Dangerous Shoes,”...

Christmas is over and the presents have all been opened, the wrappings trash and the chaos put back into a semblance of order. For some Santa brought what they wanted, for others Santa tossed them a curve, and sadly for too many Santa passed them by. Such is the nature of Christmas. What has been interesting is all the things that the commercials suggested you get for that special other. When...

I want to take a few minutes and share with you my thoughts on living in a virtual world. I am approaching my 58th year of living in an actual world, and I must admit that I am a long way from having that mastered. Now, thanks to creative folks like Mark Middleton and Bill Shaefer I have the opportunity to end up in a totally new realm. I enter this realm with both optimism and apprehension. First...

Strategies to change ADD into a blessing instead of curse by Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life CoachIs ADD a blessing or a curse? The answer is probably going to be different depending on who you ask. For some teachers and school systems, it may be a curse because of the difficulty motivating highly creative and over stimulated kids. However, for the...

“What does it take to win at work?” People have asked me that question dozens of times after a keynote speech or radio talk show. They wanted to know the action to take to build a successful life instead of being trapped in long term failure. It's a great question, but since every person faces different challenges there isn't a 100% specific answer that works for every...