Paul Keefer

Lots of people are looking for that golden nugget of information that help us make a breakthrough. But the truth about what makes us win in life is often simpler than you think.

“You’re always so happy,” a student told me as he walked into class last year and I greeted him at the door. That student would also be nicknamed “honey bun” for once eating three honeybuns for breakfast. But what he and others noticed is something I had worked on intentionally throughout my career as a teacher, which is being more emotionally consistent. It is enough that many of these students have to deal with their own parents and friends who may be all over the place emo