How To Find Your Diamonds of Opportunity
Creativity | My Thoughts | Personal Development | Posted on January 19, 2020 at 7:49 am by geneinletford
She gave me life. Therefore the least I could do was give her the stars. This was the thought that ran through my mind as I watched my mother lounging back under a blanket of twinkling lights at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Following her gaze I stared above the cliffs. It looked like [...]
Hey You! Be More Creative! So Now What?
Creativity | My Thoughts | Posted on December 9, 2019 at 11:01 am by geneinletford
The robots are coming. Wait! They are already here! 5G and quantum computing is already here. We keep warning people that the sky is falling and we need to be more creative in order to prepare for the tech advancements on the horizon. We need to retool our workforce and properly prepare our students to [...]
The Power of a Creative Idea: Let’s Read for a Better 2020
Creativity | Entrepreneurship | My Thoughts | Posted on December 2, 2019 at 8:53 am by geneinletford
I was bumping through life, not really aware of the importance of financial and creative literacy. Then when my husband quit his job to start his business, and we found ourselves under $100,000 worth of debt, I was startled into asking questions. "Why am I educated with a UCLA degree but have no financial education?" [...]
Creative Abuse: Protecting The Creative Ability of Our Children
Creativity | My Thoughts | Personal Development | Posted on November 22, 2019 at 9:20 am by geneinletford
Recently, I have had several people ask me to write a dynamic curriculum that deals with financial literacy but also addresses creative abuse recovery. This opened my eyes that many adults are in need of recovering from being creatively abused as children. They were told to follow directions and color the sky blue and [...]
Are You Being a Good Ancestor? The Importance of Creative and Financial Inheritance
Creativity | Financial Literacy | My Thoughts | Posted on November 18, 2019 at 9:08 am by geneinletford
Last month my father died. It makes me ponder how my life is steadily turning into a curriculum. It seems that everything I go through turns into a lesson for my students, clients and for myself. So here goes my latest lesson... My father was a smart man. He, like my mother, were [...]
There’s Your Difference: The Cost of Educating Just For Employment And Not For Entrepreneurship
Creativity | Entrepreneurship | My Thoughts | Posted on November 13, 2019 at 12:41 pm by geneinletford
There’s Your Difference “…Genein, you were taught to be an employee and a consumer. I was taught, from kindergarten, to be an entrepreneur and an investor. There’s your difference..." Once I heard this statement, I was stunned in disbelief because he was absolutely right. He went to a school—a very expensive private school—that cultivated creativity, which [...]
Discovering Your Creative Voice Again
Creativity | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on October 14, 2019 at 11:33 am by geneinletford
My baby, Shawn just turned one. He babbles. He screams. He laughs uncontrollably for no apparent reason (I swear he sees angels playing on the walls!). His life coach (aka his nanny) says that he’s discovering his voice. He is coming to the realization that his vocal cords can produce sounds that emit a certain [...]
Tell Our Kids the Truth! Education is NOT the Key. It’s the Frame!
Creativity | Entrepreneurship | Financial Literacy | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on September 14, 2019 at 12:45 pm by geneinletford
As the plant manager of my school walked the campus, I would know he was coming before I saw him. How? His keys. I would hear them from afar and watched how he would go into rooms and spaces that I have never entered. He would have access to places that I did not. All [...]
Creativity: The Business World is Finally Catching On
Creativity | My Thoughts | Posted on June 14, 2019 at 11:52 am by geneinletford
I should have been happy to see this but just I sighed. I sighed because in 2017, I did a TEDx Talk on why our students need creative and financial literacy to increase their success as productive human beings. *crickets* I sighed because in 2006, Sir Ken Robinson challenged America with the question, “Are Schools [...]
