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Once Homeless, Youth Seizes Job Opportunity and Gives Back

During his senior year in high school, Dante Wilson started living in Covenant House, a Philadelphia shelter for homeless youth.

One day Colleen Landy, who was Program Director of the shelter, told Dante that he was going to meet with an area CEO coming to interview potential employees.

Colleen had called Nick Bayer, CEO of Saxbys, a Philadelphia-based hospitality company with 30 locations. Colleen asked Nick to get involved with the homeless shelter. She wanted to give young people an...

Positivity — 3 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Happier

Until recently, I had no idea that you could fairly easily teach your brain to be happier. As most of us could have guessed, researchers have found that positivity (having a positive outlook) makes us happier. I didnt know that positivity is also proven to make people more successful.

Luckily for us, there are simple, proven ways researchers have found for us (even pessimists) to be happier by training our brains to think more positively.

Lets start with a quick exercise . . .

Do one quick...

Famous Failures: 23 Stories to Inspire You to Succeed

Dont be afraid to fail. In fact, failures often lead to success. Take inspiration from both the famous failures and the lesser known failures below. All of these failures were followed by perseverance and enormous successes.

I originally compiled this list of famous failures for my entrepreneurship class. The class curriculum consists of each student starting a businesses. These famous failures were meant to give the class some comfort about failures related to their businesses and the...

103 Random Acts of Kindness – Ideas to Inspire Kindness

How great is it that our random acts of kindness and good deeds can make someone elses entire day?

Here are 103 random acts of kindness and good deeds that can help you carry out kindness daily and become an everyday hero.

Some of these are new ideas and feel good stories that I havent seen online before. Others arent as original, but a reminder certainly never hurts.

Heres what inspired this post. . . I know an awesome teenager who was battling cancer. She was hoping to meet Taylor Swift by...