You Are Going to Fail

Grit is not something that is used in normal conversation. When you are talking to a person, you don't say that they were gritty. Instead, you say they were hard-working and that they persevered despite challenges. No one talks about failure. Until I asked Niel what he thought grit was. At first, when I asked …

How to Use Confidence to Stand Out

Brittany is my older sister. She is two years older than me and is the most confident person I know. She is also the bravest. Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com About a month ago, she and her husband moved from Utah to Tennessee. She moved there in order to complete her education in occupational therapy. …

You Are Not Alone in Motivation

I have always wondered how people can motivate themselves to exercise. When I exercise, it feels good for a moment and then I feel like death has personally invited me to die. Some people find their own motivation to complete spartan races and others find help in the people around them. The latter was the …

I Talked with a Rabbi About Faith

I knew that one of the religions that I would be interviewing for the month would be Judaism. I have learned that it is an amazing religion and I wish that I could have spoken with my interviewee a lot more than I did. When I started asking people from that religion to interview with …

The Faith of a Jehovah’s Witness

After writing about faith from a Muslim perspective, I was thinking about other perspectives that other religions have too. I started searching for my next interview and somehow ended up searching for someone from the Jehovah's Witnesses. Thankfully, after some failed attempts at interviews, I was introduced to Emily. Photo by Fernando Andrade on Pexels.com …

Why We Need Teachers

I have always had a respect for teachers. They gain new students every year, go through the pain of trying to help them to learn, and yet they still call their students "their kids". With all that I know of teachers, I really wanted to interview a teacher. As it so happens, my roommate, Julia, …