Is homeschooling taking over? This style of education is the fastest growing in the country. Everyday parents are pulling their children out of schools and making a classroom right out of their home. Many argue this style of learning is too relaxed and doesn’t give students an opportunity to learn about structure and ideas that can only be found in a classroom setting. Others add that students don’t benefit from social interaction or experiencing the views and opinions of others when taken out of the traditional public school environment. So if homeschooling has the potential for these … [Read more...]
Embracing the Long-term Gain through the Short-term Pain, in Entrepreneurship
Do you have any entrepreneurial aspirations that you are holding back from? It’s easy to look at successful entrepreneurs and believe they got to where they by pure luck and viral status YouTube. To be an entrepreneur and achieve success, let’s look at what it takes the best of them to get there. Lets take a look at the definition of entrepreneur just to make sure we are all on the same page. Entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. While the status of being a business owner is often … [Read more...]
A Look Through the Eyes of a Female in the Fitness World
You are in a warm weight room, loud weights are clanking in the background accompanied by the smell of iron and intensity. Sweat beads are accumulating on your brow line, 10 more reps and this set is over, muscles are hard at work tingling with energy; endorphins are at an all time high. In a room filled with men, you are the only woman. You are 19-year-old, Tempe raised fitness model, trainer and body builder Christina Rico, and you are one of few young and upcoming female fitness competitors. When you tell people about your career goals, in come the stereotypes about what type of work … [Read more...]