Our Future STRONG

Here's how millennials and GenZ are applying for jobs:  University Grad: *applies to job posting  Recruiter: "You have the right skills, we're just looking for someone with a bit more experience... University Grad: *downloads Face App age filter and syncs to their Linkedin picture  Recruiter: "Wait a minute, I think we can make this work. When can you start?" Read more HERE: https:/...

Make Focus Sustainable: Focus sustainable is focus achievable. Before your sit down for deep work, go to the bathroom, don’t be hungry and run from your smartphone. It’s really that simple. Time box your essential tasks and leave some unstructured time for yourself for unforeseen emergencies. Simplify: The first step is to simplify your surroundings. Simplify the signals you are sending to your br...

Kinds Of Digital Parenting: There are three kinds of Digital-age parents. Digital Enablers are those parents that live and let their children live. They love their technology and as a result their children are blessed with plenty of screen time. Their argument – this is the iGeneration, they have a different childhood than our own. We have to evolve with time or else we’ll be left in the dust. Dig...

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What To Tell Our Children:    What we remember about the Covid might be drastically different than what our children will hold in their memories. While our schools are closing, we have no money and work, while we’re constantly running out of cleaning supplies and toilet paper, and almost dying a few times each day of burnout, our children are busy living each day as it unfolds. So, let’s...

Staying Relevant In A Volatile Landscape:   Without personal accountability and a deep-rooted interest in human connections, our work cannot drive the positive and global impact we intend for it to have. Without the right intentions and ethics, even the best tools in our hands can become weapons of mass destruction. In this digital age of information overload, there is a greater need to teach...

Foster Problem Solving: If Covid has taught us an important lesson, it is that the world will always keep changing and we will always have problems. That’s the only constant in our lives. Let’s teach our children how to design solutions to problems. We must teach them how to face obstacles and find the self-motivation to keep going. We must expose them to adversity and not hide them from it. How l...

February is the month of love and when a lot of us who're looking for love feel the most vulnerable. In our search for the right partner, we expend our self esteem and our decision making muscle.  It doesn't have to be that way if we remember how Big Tech and the App industry is exploiting our weaknesses and making us hooked.  Ghosting, benching, and gas lighting knows no gender differen...

What is Character: Character is the predictable disposition of a human being. It is what makes a man compassionate and considerate for others. Character is the ability to know how to act in a crowd under the public eye and also the ability to be your true-self when no one is looking. It is the characteristics of trustworthiness, equanimity and fairness. What is Character Education Intervention: Ed...

Our story of life gets lost in the clutter of our day-to-day activities. We lose ourselves in the broadcast of how others are living their life. We follow their directions, their advice, and start to lose the flavor of who we truly are.  Whether it is the next Netflix recommendation or the next hike you want to go on, don't stop your exploration just because someone said so.  Seize back...

How To Bring An Education Revolution: Let's start by educating them in the ethics of computing language. Let's engage them in open ended questions to improve their meta cognition and meta learning. We must help them understand the importance of people management, and the power of conflict resolution, negotiation and persuasion. How can they convert all this knowledge they have at their finger tips...

The Teen Life Skills Checklist:    * Confidence: Developing self awareness about their strengths. * Divergent Thinking: Encouraging their problem solving skills using open ended questions. * Secrets Of Leadership: Teaching them that by taking initiative, anyone can be a leader. * Resilience: Understanding the courage to take risks within reasonable limits and trying again after failure....

Parenting During A Pandemic:   Two people have the most important jobs in the world. Parents. And Teachers. More than a billion school age kids are out of school at this moment. Teachers are busy figuring out the digital learning landscape. So its important that they stay connect, keep curriculum and teaching methods relevant to the need of the day. Parents are acting as double agents, naviga...

We’ve more in common than we don’t: Take a look around you, and you’ll see that we’re all driven by the same needs as humans. The feeling of belonging, the need to matter, and a cause to impact and give. But, we’re also starting to live more fragmented and lonely lives. The feeling of being accepted is very important for our mental wellbeing. It can shape how we value ourselves and our strengths....

You can build a personal brand for yourself effectively only when you understand what you are passionate about and what your strongest attributes are.  In the end, people associate with any brand because of the emotion they attach to it.  So if you're interested in establishing a personal brand for yourself so you can increase your network and your networth, start by understanding who yo...

I don't know a whole lot about Putin, except for the memes I see on the internet of his bare-chested ride on a horse in the Russian winters and wilderness. Don’t know what I am talking about, google “shirtless Putin” and you’ll find out more. Let me warn you, you will scrolling for hours. But, this is not about Putin, this is about the future of Russia. For pictures, visit. https://futurestrongaca...

Robots vs. Humans: Now:  If robots and animals had superior cognitive abilities than us humans, we would not be running the world today. Only humans have the power of imagination, intense curiosity, and can understand the cause and effect scenarios. Only we can contemplate deeply on the meaning of life and understand our ability that we can change our mind if we want to. Only we know what it...

What Life Skills?   Many parents ask what we teach at FutureSTRONG Academy, and when we say “21st Century Life Skills”, they say, “Oh yeah, OK, my child is fine, thank you.” But, here’s the deal. Machines that we’re building using our spectacular Science, Math and Engineering skills are dictating how we must think, feel and act. But, thinking, planning and imagining are our unique value propo...

Our Habit to Ruminate:    Most of us, not including those who’re lucky to be enlightened, don’t want to live in the present moment. We simply don’t want to accept life as it manifests itself. We begin to over think our past or over analyze our options for the future. Sometimes, letting go of the past is just not that easy especially when we feel we’ve wronged ourselves or others because...

First term Georgia congresswoman Ms. Green has been removed from her assignments on the Education and Budget committee. A woman, in the 21stcentury, who believes in alternative facts and reality, believes that 911 attacks didn’t happen, instigates everyone to “flood the Capitol” and wonders if the Parkland, Florida shootings were staged, needs to get her head checked.

We want to manage everything outside and want everyone else to understand us, we try our best to keep explaining ourselves, but we don't do a whole lot to understand ourselves.  Listen to how we often sabotage our mind and its equanimity by engaging in skeptical thoughts, unmade decisions and restlessness.

How can we generate Optimism? Imagine if we were building a career with a single minded goal. We might feel productive at the end of the day but our uni-dimensional life will not be fun at all. Without incorporating leisure and creativity and pursuing what we enjoy, and creating a well rounded life, we will not be truly happy. That’s where we can leverage the power of connection. By connecting wit...

Know What Truly Nurtures You DISCLAIMER: I am not a vegan. I am a vegetarian. I have family members, and close friends who eat meat. I have no problem with that. Food preferences are a personal topic, and I would like to leave it at that. There’s so much to talk about in the world of food manufacturing. Bu, what’s there to talk about and why is it important to create awareness? Products and packag...

From Authenticity To Personal Freedom:  We can train as much and as long as we want, but unless we test it in real life, we are not turning our learning into action. When our training and testing coincide, we’re living our truth. When we speak and act our personal truth and values, we’re living in an authentic way. We begin to live in a “No conflict” zone, where our thoughts, words and our ac...

In January of 2020, if anyone would tell me that I would have to go on this self-imposed isolation for months on end, I would have laughed. As it turns out, not only did we go on isolation, we have stayed and managed to survive it. But imagine this type of a phenomenon that has been prevalent since the late 1990’s in Japan where people were retreating inwards and hiding out in their homes for deca...