...This is so important because others' respect for ourselves and our thoughts builds our confidence, helps people take risks, makes it okay to not be perfect, but encourages us to try any challenge. Let me be a good bad example: I'm a terrible athlete, but my biggest enemy in that field is my fear... (read more)
...Around the same time that I started grad school, I started tutoring for an established tutoring center in Dallas. A few months later, my wife and I assumed ownership of the center after the founding owner decided he could no longer run it. We ran it successfully for a number of years until we had to move across the country so I could accept a full-time teaching position at a university. (read more)