During the holiday season my family and I watch a lot of Christmas movies, particularly Hallmark movies. The kind of beautiful stories that rarely leave you without a thought, feeling or that choked up feeling in your throat- you know the one you get when you try not to shed a tear over a silly movie. Okay, fine maybe it's just me who chokes up over silly movies. We always end those kind of movies by saying aww, smiling at each other and sometimes kidding about how cute those movies are. I keep my Read more [...]

I have quirks, flaws, dreams and motivations just like everyone else. And like everyone else my life has obstacles like money, not enough time in the day and a lack of dating. In everyday I work hard, write multiple blogs, and use life as a limitless resource to draw inspiration for teaching videos and blog posts. My dreams right now simply consist of finding more work, working hard, and traveling. I love traveling. For the time being I'm staying with my dad at Cool River Ranch. This has a few purposes Read more [...]

It's been snowing on and off again all day. Even when we did chores (we feed the horses twice a day). I feel so country bumpkin with my new cowboy boots. Also decorated our Christmas tree here the other day to surprise everyone. The tree is themed- Country. It's so cute. I bought these little strings of circle stars and cowboys on bucking horses and wrapped them around the tree. Then used a ton of lights and decorated two of the outdoor trees- one big that required the tractor to get to the Read more [...]

According to the book, Outliers, what we consider an expert in a field tend to be a person who has had 10,000 hours of experience or the equivalent of 3 hours a day for ten years. These are the people who are full of vision and talent the people we think of as natural born genius in their field, but really according to Malcom these people have just received more opportunities for practice and that practice has made them extraordinary. This tale and it's many examples of excess seems to scream Read more [...]

I've been listening to a few podcasts to try to learn French but have recently taken this one step further, if you where reading last week you probably got a little taste of it. I'm making videos to help myself learn French. I've taken notes, got examples off other videos, and used Google translator. I'm combining all this knowledge into videos that are easier to understand. I'm sick of having to read then listen then try to attach the word to an image. Cognitively speaking that's just a mess. Read more [...]