by Robin Cox | Jan 9, 2025 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, Resiliency, teachers, youth mentoring
The Number One Survivor Skill …. The number one survival skill is… the power to regulate your thoughts. Some call it resilience, mental toughness or grit. Others call it perseverance, fortitude or mental powers. The bottom line is… it is ALL self-regulation....
by Robin Cox | Dec 19, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Employers, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
Recently, when I was walking on our local beach and thinking about mentoring, I observed a young boy, probably about two years old, walking with his mother. The tide was moving out. Some small pools of water remained from the high tide. With great excitement the boy...
by Robin Cox | Dec 4, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Family, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” (anonymous) I love this quote, as it resonates with me and my life journey to date, as I think about all those who...
by Robin Cox | Nov 26, 2024 | business people, coaching leaders, Employers, Family, Mentors, Mentorship, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
How do you reach out to someone who is struggling? How do you respond to someone who asks for your help? How do you speak messages of hope into the life of someone who feels hopeless? How do you offer a hand up, not a hand out? How do you ever know if your efforts...
by Robin Cox | Nov 21, 2024 | Coaching leadership, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
What happened when you sailed out of the safe harbor of your comfort zone into the stormy seas of life? Much of my life I moved alongside teenagers, or teaching colleagues, or parents, often with messages of encouragement and hope. These interactions taught me much...
by Robin Cox | Nov 17, 2024 | coaching leaders, Mentors, Mentorship, motivating teenagers, Parents, Relationships, teachers, youth mentoring
Selfless leaders wanted urgently! How positively do you influence those around you? President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The best executive is the one who has the sense enough to pick good men [women] to do what he [she] wants done, and self-restraint to keep from...
