Prepare Students For College Success.

YES Prep North Central, serving grades 6-12 in Houston, does whatever it takes to prepare students for college success.

It is so cool to find a great strategy that helps create success for some students in the American School system.

Education is very important and these kids are making the grade.

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Thanksgiving & Child Psychology

Thanksgiving 2009

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is here? We are already at the end of 2009 and 2010 is just around the corner.

You and I both know that once Thanksgiving is here the rest of the year is only a flicker. Think about the New Year to come and all the opportunities and resources you have now…. to really do some great things with your life.

As a kid….I remember working barefooted with that hot summer sun burning down on us in the tobacco fields. I remember not having enough energy to do much after our work, but we did have enough energy to jump in the pond for a quick swim. I remember doing much with very little back in those days.

One great memory as a kid is Thanksgiving at my Grandparents house. We had great food and lots of love to go around. My Grandma was one of the greatest cooks on the planet.

She would cook the best sweet potato pie…..the kind that you had to eat with your shoes off so you could wiggle your toes.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and create some wonderful memories.

I am so thankful for all of you.

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We all have childhood memories and parts of our past that form and condition us as we grow older and become adults.

I think it is so important to keep in mind the children we influence and condition as we journey through life.

Watch this great video. Dr. John Breeding, he starts a little slow, but let him build up.

Child Psychology – The True Nature of Children & Kids

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Love to you all!

Enjoy the journey!

Lane Resources Inc.

Lynn Lane.

Create Your Greatness

Breaking the Cycle.

From early childhood to adulthood we are trained and conditioned to think, act and believe certain things about life and the way we should live it.

We may not be complete conditioned response creatures…..(Pavlov’s Dogs), but we do tend to fall back on the conditioned response from the past for example, Learned Helplessness.

So many people never become aware that this has happened. The moment you are aware is the moment you begin to create your true self.

Look around and you will see many people that are living the same broken existence of past generations because they have been conditioned to do so.

A life without:

*Education

*Goals

*Career

*Responsibility

*Accountability

*Discipline

*Direction

*Respect

“The tragedy of the War on Poverty is not that its measures have been too small to reduce the proportion of the population living under the poverty level today to anything less than it was in 1968.

 The tragedy is the multitude of able people who became welfare recipients every year when they would have found their way out of the poverty trap in the absence of these programs.

Social programs may supply some important benefits to the genuinely helpless. But the inevitable irony of government transfers to the poor is that they induce other people to qualify for them — people who could work for a decent living, but choose idleness and a welfare check instead.

More tragic still are the children of welfare families whose role models are parents who can’t or won’t hold a job or who have given up trying. Not only do these children fail to learn the importance of work and self-reliance, but the value of education — already hard for a child to appreciate — becomes incomprehensible to them.

Not surprisingly, this results in poorer attendance, more frequent classroom disruptions, higher dropout rates, lower literacy and overall competence levels, and higher juvenile crime rates.

Many children of school age in our inner cities now are third-generation welfare recipients. “

*Note that statement was written by David Beer a doctoral student in economics at George Mason University in 1989.  Full Article.

Once you become aware of the people and things around you that condition you, now you have the key to unlock those shackles and free yourself to discover your greatness.

Learn to embrace the challenge of change and the challenge to create greatness in your life by conditioning your own mind and body with your own choices and decisions.

Be the first in your family to finish college, start and build a million dollar company, become a leader in your community or influence others yet unborn to follow your example of greatness.

Leave that legacy behind for others to follow.

Gratitude-

I am so thankful for the positive friends, family and mentors that showed up in my life at age 24-25 and for all the ones that continue to show up today because I seek them out.

Lane Resources Inc.

Lynn Lane

Embrace the Challenge!

Navy Seals, Model For Success

Navy Seals, Models For Success.

American captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage then freed from Somali pirates after they were persuaded by a Navy Seal Team this week.

Well, only one was persuaded, the others were killed by the Seal Team Snipers.

Special Ops are a great group to model success by. They have things in place that once set in motion have a very high percentage rate of success.

You can use this model in business, your career or day to day living.

Let’s look at it.

1.      They have an objective. They know what the mission is before they start.

2.      They work as a team and back each other up.

3.       They sharpen their skills daily. (Stephen Covey – they sharpen the saw.)

4.      They always have a contingency plan. Expect the unexpected.

5.      They risk.

6.      They commit.

7.      They take action.

8.      They never give up until the mission is complete.

9.      They serve others. And aren’t we lucky.

Then after they reach the goal or complete the mission they go back and work on 2. 3. & 9.

This is only a broad scope, but you can see why they are successful at what they do.

I almost forgot one very important step.

10.  *They gather as much information (intelligence) as possible before the mission starts and as the mission continues. This helps them adjust their approach if needed.

If you are already implementing these steps I salute you.