 Mukilteo, WA: Stage Fright, a character building picture book for children ages 3-10, sold out of all stock available on Amazon before it’s official release on July 24, 2018. Click here for more information about Stage Fright and its scheduled release.
Stage Fright, the debut title in The Adventures of Josie & Bud™, is creating a buzz in their own backyard, Mukilteo, Washington.  Come check out Stellar Kids Dentistry's annual ice cream social THIS THURSDAY, July 12, 2018 from 3PM to 7PM! There will be face painting, an author reading of Stage Fright at 5PM, sidewalk chalk, and complimentary Ben & Jerry's ice cream! You won't want to miss this event!
Stop by and say hi to Trisha B. Perez and the Stellar Kids Dentistry team!
To celebrate the new year, we're launching our new and improved MORE Method Planner. But that's not all. Because we love our customers, we've worked very hard to offer FREE SHIPPING on all of our planners! No promo code necessary. So head on over to our online store to check it out. We're sure that this planner will help you make 2018 the best year you've ever had. You don't need to take our word for it. See what others are saying about it! REVIEWSI absolutely LOVE my SPP planner!!! I use it daily at work and at home, and am able to check things off (Or highlight them) when I complete tasks. The SPP planner has been great! I manage working, the schedules of three busy teens, and multiple other commitments. I have always used a planner for eveything. This planner took it to a whole nother level.  It is a common desire for a parent to want to give their children the foundation for a better life than their own. The desire to want good for our children is the easy part. Figuring out what to do to get what we want for our children is the hard part. In our mission to equip people with tools and resources to achieve self-defined success, we put together a list of 3 important opportunities children need to achieve greatness as an adult. Children are so amazing. They are capable of so much more than most people realize. Because we know that children are capable, children need only an opportunity to learn, not a natural ability, because many abilities can be learned. Children need opportunities to aspire to become more. Children learn what is available to them. One cannot truly learn something s/he has not encountered in the form of a lesson or problem to solve. Think of all of the random abilities you've gained due to exposure at a young age. This can be displayed simply by the games you played as a child. If your grandparents had a pool table, the chances are higher that you might be good at billiards. Whether you enjoyed shooting pool or not, if it was the only game you, your siblings, and cousins were allowed to play when visiting your grandparents, you probably put in many hours of practice in the game. You might even be the best at billiards out of your circle of friends. Without the opportunity to learn a given skill, it is reasonable for someone to not know that certain skill. If your child is a natural dancer and finds joy in dancing, exposure to high performing dancers might provide him a strong foundation for success in dancing. By providing our children exposure to high performers in industries that might bring them future fulfillment, we are also providing them the ability to aspire greatness in any department of life. Children need opportunities to learn to appreciate being prepared. One can only prepare for success if one has been exposed to the benefit of being prepared for success. Without having been exposed to an experience of appreciation for being prepared to succeed, one might not have a motivation strong enough to create a lifestyle of preparation. Most of the time we blame discipline for why we don't succeed when the real culprit is unawareness. We are unaware of how good or bad options are for the outcome we desire. You wouldn't pay your utility bill with a credit card if the utility company charged $10 to do it, yet we've all done something like this due to unawareness of its effect on our lives. Now imagine that this actually happened to you and after a closer look at the utility company's terms you find that setting up automatic payment using your account and routing number qualifies you for a 10 percent discount. In this case, the price was the time and effort to set up automatic payment and the outcome was a discount. By actually knowing the options available to you in any given situation and the price to choose each option, we equip ourselves with future motivation to live the life of a top performer. The path is challenging, which is why half the battle is fought with a perspective for success. We need to know why we are pursuing success in the manner that we are in order to persevere when opportunities to quit arise. In a child's life this this might be be responsible for his or her own laundry. Let's put it all on the table for the hard working parents reading this. Some clothes may get ruined. That is the point. If the experience is controlled by your child learning with play clothes, losses can be kept to a minimum. If your child benefits from having clean clothes on her/his terms, s/he is motivated to use the newly attained skill again. If your child pays a consequence to not using her/his newly attained skill, s/he will be motivated to use her/his skill to solve the problem. The way to gift our children with the advantage of preparation is by accepting that sometimes failure is the answer and stepping aside to allow them to experience it. With a growth mindset, failure can teach us a multitude of skill to succeed. Every time we fail we learn another way that it doesn't work and if we apply that information to our next attempt, we increase our likelihood of achieving success. Children need opportunities to practice and learn techniques for remembering important matters. If you’ve followed the first two things a child needs to achieve greatness, you might create a foundation for a dreamer. The outcome for that might be a young adult that aspires for great things. To aspire great things is not enough. To close the gap in the three most essential tools a child needs to achieve greatness, we must expose our children to opportunities to practice skills to juggle their own greatness. A gifted athlete cannot even play a sport at high school level without maintaining a certain grade point average. It is rare that a person would have the opportunity to pursue a dream without having to juggle a full personal life filled with its own set of responsibilities and expectations. Without the ability to juggle a dream and everyday responsibilities, our children might go into the real world performing below their potential because they are simultaneously learning the art of calendaring. Most adults calendar deadlines but do not calendar the time to work on meeting those deadlines. By teaching our children basic calendaring skills we close the gap in some of this most crucial skills children need to become adults that achieve greatness. With today's resources, our access to top performers in any given industry is almost limitless. If we cannot connect with a specific person we can at least find footage on their performances. Now that you know exposure is the key to greatness, What will you expose your child to today? Trisha PerezTrish Perez is the senior editor, content curator, intern, web designer, chef, custodian, and proof reader at Storm Praise Publishing. She also serves as lead in the creation of the children's series, The Adventures of Josie and Bud, which makes its debut in December 2017.  Now that we’ve established the basic calendar to be every top performers’ secret weapon, we thought it’d be nice to create a quick start guide to power using your calendar. If we want to become top performers in any industry and top performers’ secret weapon is the calendar, wouldn’t it be wise to become a power user of the calendar? Next time you sit down to set your goals, consider these 3 quick and simple ways to power use the calendar to achieve your own self-defined success. 1.) Budgeting Time to Get it Done - Setting Reminders It’s interesting how calendaring deadlines for our goals is common knowledge, but calendaring time to accomplish the tasks to achieve our goals is not. Just how not setting a financial budget for something necessary might cause there to be insufficient funds, not setting a time budget to get necessary tasks done also might cause a deficit in our resource of time. Whether it be a paper, digital, or wall calendar, setting reminders is a must. Out of all the ways to set a reminder, setting a digital reminder to a calendar event is the most simple. Most platforms offer at least two additional alerts, aside from the actual calendar event. This type of reminder is the most simple because the user can set the reminders at the same moment the event is created. The most practical way to use reminders to complete tasks on time in order to accomplish a greater goal is to estimate how long a give task will take, add a day or two if possible, and add it to your calendaring system. This act is just as important as the deadline itself. 2.) Calendar Pop-Ups are Your Friend - Syncing Paper with Digital There seems to be this unsaid notion that the act of remembering to get things done on time is done by only using one’s memory. Remembering is associated with memory, but remembering to get things done on time is not the same thing. When someone sets a large goal with many sub-goals leading to a desired result, that person will need to get things done on time. That need is met by syncing plans to a digital calendar. 3.) Measure Twice, Cut Once - Implementing Goals into Your Calendar When I think about setting goals, the old carpentry proverb, “Measure twice, cut once,” comes to mind. The phrase literally meant that one must measure a material twice to avoid wasting time and resources. We can use that type of thinking for successfully setting goals. If we use our planner calendars for their exact purpose, planning, we make it possible for ourselves to measure once. By calendaring appropriate deadlines for our goals into our planner calendar, wall calendar, and digital calendars, we make it possible for ourselves to measure a second time. The idea is simple. Pick a multi-step goal, choose a doable deadline for the goal, and spread out the tasks throughout your calendaring system for the set time. This practice sets in place a strong foundation for success in achieving goals by preparing decisions regarding your goals in advance. By measuring twice and cutting once, we are preventatively protecting ourselves from decision fatigue, resulting in higher performance. If the key to getting the big things in life is remembering to do a bunch of the little things in life, what systems have you put in place to remember the little things?  If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I can do better,” you may have the heart of a top performer. A top performer, regardless of the industry/activity, perform at the top level. At the center of the heart of a top performer is a desire to beat yesterday’s self. To simplify the process of becoming a top performer, we're taking a look at the common thread between top performers in different “industries.” Professional athletes and bodybuilders plan and schedule time to workout and prep meals. Without a calendar, none of that can be done properly. It's probably safe to believe that people setting such goals for their bodies invest in their diet and exercise. An example of a diet investment might be quality ingredients that result in a higher grocery bill. An example of investing in exercise might be committing to deliberately exercising regularly. The reason why a professional athlete or bodybuilder might use a calendar to achieve success is to add consistency to the recipe for success. Law firms rely on calendars and calendaring systems to achieve success. To better understand the role of a calendaring system in the lives of top performers, we asked Ada K. Wong about the role of a calendar in the success of her law firm, AKW Law, P.C. Wong has been named "Women in the Law - Top Peer-Nominated Lawyers," "Top 40 Under 40" by The National Trial Lawyers, and "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers. Wong was also named AVVO Top Personal Injury Attorney, Top Employment Law Attorney, Top Civil Rights Attorney, and awarded the Client's Choice Award in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. When asked what attributed to her success, she answered, "It is an understatement that all successful people, including lawyers, are highly organized; and the key to organization is having an effective and efficient calendaring system. Law firms operate on deadlines imposed by the court, statue of limitations, and our clients' needs and expectations. Missing deadlines or forgetting to complete tasks can negatively impact one's reputation -- quickly. We are simply not able to remember everything that we must do and all deadlines. Having a calendaring system for a law firm is a must, there is simply no shortcut." Moms are the project managers of their households and the underrated heroes of the world. In households where children are in multiple extracurricular activities and the adults manage to make progress towards individual ambitions, there is usually a “project momager” managing and juggling the individual schedules that come with each individual ambition, so that they can all coexist in harmony. Without a phone calendar, a mom with the purest intentions, can still forget her first grader’s jog-a-thon. Calendars make the world of success go round. When we power use calendars by creating our own calendaring systems, we design an automated lifestyle for success. Napolean Hill said it best in Think and Grow Rich when he said, “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Do your dreams have a deadline? Trish PerezTrish Perez is the senior editor, content curator, intern, web designer, chef, custodian, and proof reader at Storm Praise Publishing. She also serves as lead in the creation of the children's series, The Adventures of Josie and Bud, which makes its debut in December 2017.  How many of us have ambitiously set out to achieve a big goal, only to find ourselves derailed, on the couch, phone in hand, scrolling our lives away? Or maybe it is more like, in bed, remote in hand, binge-watching our lives away? If that hits close to home for you, know that you’re in good company. Staying on track to reach our goals is challenging and that is the truth. That truth lead us to wonder what it takes to stay on track. What does it take to stay on track? Staying on track requires us to manage a machine with a lot of moving parts. Like any mechanical machine, often times if one part of the machine is not working properly, all parts will not work at full potential. To help ourselves and our readers stay on track, we have highlighted three important actions we take that assist us in staying on the track to self-defined success. Have goals to review quarterly or monthly. To have goals to review, one must set goals. Setting goals is preparation. That preparation dictates what actions need to be taken to accomplish a goal. The deadline tied to the goal dictates the pace at which the actions are to be taken. This information is the core ingredient to staying on track, because without it, there’s no plumb line to compare our progress to. Assess current progress. Once goals are set, assessment must be scheduled. Assessing progress tells us if we have strayed from the set plan for success. Think of how a GPS reroutes drivers when they make a wrong turn. Prior to navigation systems, we knew we were lost when we didn’t see the next turn for an uncomfortable amount of time. Now, thanks to navigation systems, we can know when we have strayed from the planned route right away, saving us time, money, and frustration. Setting out to accomplish goals without scheduling assessments is like driving with the reroute feature turned off. Adjust plans and/or actions as necessary. We are the doctors to our own success. We have the power to treat and medicate our state of success any way we find necessary. When we stray from our planned route to success, we will need to either adjust our plan or our actions to make our likelihood of success stronger. Our goals are the vehicles to a life full of big picture days. Are your goals in good health? Trish PerezTrish Perez is the senior editor, content curator, intern, web designer, chef, custodian, and proof reader at Storm Praise Publishing. She also serves as lead in the creation of the children's series, The Adventures of Josie and Bud, which makes its debut in December 2017.  A Study on HANGRY Judges An experiment done in Israel proves the power in mental fatigue to change a person’s fate. The article was first published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America website on April 11, 2011. Researchers analyzed data from criminal cases to “test the effect of the ordinal position of a case on the judge’s decision and the effect of the judge having taken a break to eat.” From data collected from 1,112 judicial rulings, the study found “that when judges make repeated rulings, they show an increased tendency to rule in favor of the status quo.” In simpler words, making rulings repeatedly can increase the likelihood of judges simplifying their decision-making process. The judges are becoming tired of making decisions and as a result, simplifying their mental processes. You can find the study here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Extraneous+factors+in+judicial+decisions This study displays the power of a single decision and our responsibility to prepare for the long game in terms of decision-making. To portray this idea, consider a hypothetical judge that has a reputation of deciding justly 80 percent of the time and unjustly 20 percent of the time. Our society has built a reputation of commonly focusing on that imperfect 20 percent. This reason is good enough to respect and value decision-making and the energy we must exert to make one. How do we combat decision fatigue? Simply put, we prepare what we can, when we can, and as often as we can. Sufficient preparation might not always be an option in our everyday lives, but when it is, it is wise for us to choose it. Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg is known for wearing the same outfit every, single day. Many people ask him about his fashion choices and everyone comes back with the same answer, to give more energy to Facebook. It seems that Mark Zuckerberg embraces a preparatory lifestyle to achieve greatness. If I am to judge a tree be it’s fruit, the fruit being Facebook, I might say he may know a little something about greatness. Barack Obama Barack Obama wore the same tuxedo for his two-terms as president. This might not be as extreme as Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to wear the same outfit every day, but it is a perfect display of someone that values the power of a decision and the amount of energy we must exert to make one. Bodybuilders Successful bodybuilders often times prepare their meals a week in advance. Planning meals entails choosing meals for the week that fit a set budget, making a grocery list, buying all of the ingredients, cooking the meals, and then storing each meal. Respecting the power of a decision about a meal is clearly a key to success in bodybuilding. Bodybuilders put in work in the gym and in the kitchen, while maintaining a professional and personal life. Success is a lifestyle, not an act. A prep lifestyle is a foundation put in place to keep us on the path to self-defined success. By living a preparatory lifestyle we preventatively combat decision fatigue, increasing our likelihood of success. What are you doing to create a prep lifestyle? Trish PerezTrish Perez is the senior editor, content curator, intern, web designer, chef, custodian, and proof reader at Storm Praise Publishing. Trish also serves as lead in the creation of the children's series, The Adventures of Josie and Bud, which makes its debut in December 2017. |
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