Trade School Culture

See how the world of tomorrow relies on the impossible dreams of today.

Money. You know you want it. You know you need it to get the things you need to survive. Yet, you've heard Money is the Root of all Evil....

A Request Lillian from learningdisabilities.info reached out to me with the below article about the benefits of using creativity to engag...

Often when historians talk about time periods, they may refer to periods by . The 1500s-1700s was the Renaissance and the Age of Discover...

I'm starting to find resources from people around the globe who see the problems of our modern education system. Last week, I encountered...

Sometimes I resist sharing some of the most powerful stories in my life. I'm sure that sounds strange. Why wouldn't I want to share the...

The spirit of TradeSchool is to be intentional about how you live. I want to encourage you all to trade your time for things that are mu...

Brian was excited. Yet, in the room full of people, he didn't stand out. Why? Because he was listening. It was late July of 2016. I w...

I take the bus. I live on the Northwest Side of Minneapolis and work in a North East Suburb. In order to get there by bus, I have to ri...

Why is communication so important in leadership? Let's look at a domestic example. I'm married and have 3 children. I work 40 hours a wee...

My friend, Pete, was flying from Omaha, Nebraska back home to Minneapolis. It wasn't a commercial airline. It was only Pete, the pilot,...

When I was growing up, I remember waiting for Christmas. Being a religious family, we had an advent calendar. The calendar was a pictu...

One time my wife came to me and said, "Well, they posted pictures from the picnic." I could tell by her tone that she wasn't happy. Uh-o...

Do you ever get bored? Do you ever feel like there is nothing you want to do? Like, even sleeping would be a chore--even though you do...

When I was 13 I had a hockey coach named Buzz--who ironically had long curly hair. Buzz taught me that life has positive and negative le...

How would you learn something you’d never been told? When you were in school, were you the type of person to raise your hand right away a...

Typically on this blog, I like to talk about ways that we can make our world a better place. I talk about changing our culture largely c...

My friend Bryan Schachtele is a life coach who is just full of positive energy! He completely believes that what you believe in forms th...

I began playing guitar and writing songs when I was 14. The first time I performed one was at my church. See I had been asked to perfor...

Have you ever wished you had a personal community center? A place where you could go drop off your kids for two hours so you could have ...