Life lessons can often feel hard-won. You choose what you think is best—or even most exciting—in the moment, only to realize ...

The pressure put on women by society is immense. We are expected to be attractive, compelling, intelligent, and high-achieving. We need to fill our wallets, so to speak, while being maternal and ...

When it comes to personal growth, advice is usually handed out as one-size-fits-all. While that sounds fair in theory, it often misses the mark. Men and women face different pressures, expectations, ...

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

Remember Jo Dee Messina? “Life Is Good” is one of her finest country tunes, and its life lesson is pretty direct: Life is just too short to let negativity get in the way of enjoying it. She’s right, ...

Alana Ziebell learned a lot in her last year of high school — and it wasn’t all from textbooks and classes. Her mother Pauline died from breast cancer on September 13 last year, only weeks before ...

In almost a blink of an eye, 2024 came and went. A lot of people are reflecting on the past 12 months. They may be thinking about what they accomplished – or didn't – and what they learned along the ...

The bestselling book, written by Stephen Covey in 1989, is based on seven principles that promote character development, such as proactive behavior, goal setting, prioritization, mutual benefit, ...

As a Black man with no college degree in the 1990s, I had every reason to believe the business world wasn’t built for me. I didn’t have family connections in corporate America or academic credentials ...

As a child I dreamed of an adventurous world-career. In grade school, without traveling far away from our then relatively remote Blue Ridge mountains, I somehow imagined in my lifetime becoming a ...