Bobby L. Villarreal

This week's topic, "The Significance of 10,000" Most of you are probably wondering why in the heck am I talking about the number 10,000, while a few of you may have a slight idea as to where I am going with this. There is a best-selling book titled, "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell. I highly recommend this book to those of you who have not read it. Gladwell provides a wealth of information in regards to being successful and argues if we are born with luck or does hard work really pave the road to success for you. He introduces the 10,000 hour rule throughout the book and after intensive research he discovered that it takes about 10,000 hours before you are to become an expert in your desired field. Sounds crazy, but when you actually analyze it, it makes sense. Most of us want to be successful but do not want to have to put any work in, most importantly we do not want to sacrifice. In our culture today, we live in a world of entitlement...

This week we dive into a very intriguing topic, "Why Change Is Good." We all have experienced some type of change throughout our entire lives. For some of us it may have been a bad or good experience but regardless it had an impact on your life whether it was minor or major. I was having a conversation the other day with a friend of mine that I hadn't spoken to in months. We were catching up and both of us had complimented each other on how much we had changed since the last time we seen each other. He had told me that becoming a father had changed his life and that his child meant the world to him. As he was telling me this I could just feel his emotion through his expressions. I began to realize how much his character had developed. During graduate school, a topic we had discussed in a course was adapting to change in an organizational culture. The workplace has to be one of the most difficult settings to adapt to change. Most of us have either gone through...

For this week's topic I thought it would be a great idea to do a special one for Valentine's Day. Wait a second you are probably wondering but Bobby your topic mentions 'haters". Yeah it does and it obviously got your attention to get you here to read this. Well that's because I truly believe we should celebrate love with each other every day regardless of what day of the year it is. So let's dive right into this week's topic. Haters, what is a hater? The true definition of a hater is someone who dislikes intensely or passionately. Although, we all might have our own definition of a hater, especially in today's culture, but all in all they all correlate with the each other. Regardless, of what it means to you we all have had our own experience with haters and have learned to deal with them as well. Most notably, what we have learned from those experiences we have learned to apply them to our life. (Remember last week's topic.) We all have once in ...

Happy First Friday y'all! Hope you have been enjoying my blog thus far, I appreciate all the feedback and responses I've been receiving. This week's topic is "The Importance of Education and Why It Should Matter To You." First off, when we hear the word education the first thing we immediately think is school. Although, they both correspond with each other yet the both are quite different let's take a closer look at their meaning. Education means a) the act or process of educating; instruction; b) the science of teaching; pedagogy. Meanwhile, school is an organization that provides instruction. After knowing this we can agree that education is the process of learning and school is the setting of where learning takes place. Today, the education system has changed and the learning experience has gone from the classroom to outside the classroom. So what I want for you to do for now is to distinguish education and school. Education exists in every ...