The Daily Drive for Teens

In today's episode on the DDT...I'll discuss why it is so important for teenagers to be creative and to create. One of the quickest solutions for discouragement and depression I've found in both teenagers and adults, is to engage in creation! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share with you the reason it is so important to keep a mind open to learning in any situation you might be in. No matter how much you think you already know or think you have already heard...you can always learn more if you are open to learn. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share one of the most important principles and measurement by which to manage your time and prioritize those things that are a part of your life...both of which will help you get the most out of both. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few principles to help you better face and overcome those influences which can rob you of your power and in many ways enslave you to them. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a key principle to help you as young people to make more decision correctly in your life. Especially the big ones! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode I'll give you some examples of boundaries that are available to you, as well as the kinds of things boundaries are meant to protect. The hope is as you start to see how boundaries are everywhere in life, that you will understand how to make them more a part of your life. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode I will help you to begin to see what boundaries are and what they look like. Boundaries are one of the most important things you are learning to develop right now...and that development will either lead to some of the greatest joys in your life or some of the greatest sorrows...so listen up! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode, I'll share a sign of a true friend and how to recognize those that care the most about you! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode I'll share a thought about the best way love can be expressed to anyone in your life that you love. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share an experience to help you understand the importance of all the rules and restrictions that I know as teenagers you hate...while you think many of these rules are limiting your freedoms, you might be surprised to find out they are actually protecting it. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a thought to help with some of the most difficult times in your life...times when we are left feeling broken and discouraged and there is only one thing that you can do to move forward. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a thought to help you work through the fear of trying new things. As teenagers new things can be scary...auditions, tryouts, making new friends, asking someone to dances, even trying new food. It's important to accept that getting burned will always be a part of trying something new! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few principles to help when you are feeling depressed. Depression is a part of life, and everyone will experience it in some form or another, while some forms of depression may require professional help, these principles are principles that are universal to any type of depression and can help! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few principles and thoughts to help you deal with anxiety in your life. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT I'll share a couple principles to help you deal the pressures that are put on you to look a certain way physically and to accept the truth that you are not your body...you are so much more. Who you are will always be found on the inside, not the outside. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few thoughts for those teenagers that are looking to create their own "Liquid Luck" or that struggle feeling unlucky in life. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT I'll share one of the most important lessons you young people can learn to help you to become the best you can be, the strongest you can be, and the most successful you can be.  Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode of the DDT, I'll share a principle to help, when you find yourself in some of the dark periods in life...and it is the principle of contrast. Sometimes it's in the dark, that we can best see the light! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'm going to share a little bit about my new program and initiative that I am hoping I can bring to schools called LYFT, which stands for (lift your fellow teens). We all can make a difference in the world by making a difference in the lives of those around us! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few thoughts about forgiving yourself when you make mistakes. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a few thoughts and principles to help you forgive those people that have and will hurt you in your life.  Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode of the DDT, I'll share a few thoughts about the power of positivity and how to work through those negative thoughts and feelings that always eventually find us. The mind is the most powerful muscle that we have, but instead of having to lift weights to strengthen it, we get to lift thoughts. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a quick story and experience to help when life doesn't go the way you want it to. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode of the DDT I'll share a little bit about the principle of self care. What it is and what it looks like for a teenager. I'm convinced it is as important to understand and practice as teenagers as much as it is for adults. Maybe even more so, with all the anxiety that teens are experiencing today. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today's message on the DDT is about the formula you need to understand to help you to feel like enough...to help you feel safe. There are two elements that must be in their proper alignment in order for you to feel the most confident and secure with who you are...and the sooner you learn this the sooner you'll stop chasing those things that will always lead to you feeling insecure with yourself.

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a quick thought about those things that are most real in life and how to tell the difference from the imitations. So pour your bowl of cereal (hopefully Cap n' Crunch) and see if you can tell the difference between what's real and what isn't. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode of the DDT, my goal is to help you understand the difference between shame and guilt...how to use guilt as the gift that it is, while avoiding shame at all costs. YOU ARE NOT YOUR MISTAKES...I know that...but my hope is today, you'll better learn how to know that yourself and what to do about it when you don't. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today on the DDT I'll share 3 simple words for you Be. Do. Have. In the right order these three words can help you find everything you want in life...in the wrong order you'll find yourself chasing what you want, but never really catching it. The sooner you can learn this concept the sooner you'll BE all you hope to BE. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today on the DDT, I'll share a few principles to help you recognize and accept your weaknesses, while also working on turning them into strengths. There's nothing wrong with being weak as a teenager. It's what you do with your weaknesses that matter. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today on the DDT, I'll share four tips on how you can stop comparing yourself with others. How you can better embrace who you are instead of hating who you are not. And especially how to keep social media from making you feel worse about yourself...You have more control than you think! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today on the DDT, I'll share a short principle about how to make the biggest difference wherever you are in life...whether it's at school, in you class, on your team, within your group of friends or at home with your family. Each of you have opportunities each and every day to lift those around you by simply lifting wherever you stand! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

Today, on the DDT, I'll share a quick thought about the destinations that we have for ourselves and how to let them go and better focus on the moment so as to not miss some of the best parts of life...this is especially important for you as teenagers, because of all the pressure that is put on you to succeed and to excel. You will find that if you will focus on the journey over the destination that the destination will take care of itself and you will come to have loved the journey it took to get there! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share with you one of the ways I've seen more young people get trouble during the early years of their life than any other...I know all of you want good things, like grades, recognition, relationships and more, the issues arise not in getting them, but HOW you get them...there's always a right way and a wrong way. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's message on the DDT, I'll share another thought about dating and how to go about eventually finding your person, which is a common phrase used today...and the answer lies not so much in finding the right person, but in being the right person as you'll learn today. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website Email Josh at josh@joshdowns.com

In today's episode on the DDT, we'll discuss how to judge others in the right way...there's no way around it, you will have to judge other people, but there's a right and a wrong to judge...and knowing how to judge will make all the difference in the way you see others and in the way they see you! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In todays episode on the DDT, I'll share a thought for you to hold onto when things don't go your way, when things get hard and you find yourself in a place you never thought you'd be or ever wanted to be. There are reasons that life is meant to be hard and today I'll give you one of the most important to know, remember and hold on to, to see you through them. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

Today's episode on the DDT is all about those things you don't want to do! "I don't want to!" is a pretty common thought for teenagers to have...and today I'll help you see how to work through those thoughts and why those things you don't want to do, may very well be some of the most important things for you to do. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share what will be the most important quality to look for in those you date will be...even more important than attraction! I know that might be hard to believe as a teenager, but trust me, as important as attraction is, if this quality isn't there chances are the attraction won't last...just because people are attracted to each other, doesn't mean they will stay together. This is most important advice on LOVE that I can give you! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In today's episode on he DDT we'll look at one of the most profound life lessons we can learn...which is the ability to be enough despite the losses that we experience in life. As a teenager, there can be some very heavy disappointments, but they can become much lighter when we understand where true worth comes from and where it doesn't come from. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In todays message on the DDT, I'll share a thought about how to overcome the fear of "I can't" and the disappointment of failure. In today's message, you'll better come to understand that failure is actually an important component of success and that you can't succeed, unless you also fail. That growth isn't found in what you can do, but in what you can't do.  Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In todays message on the DDT, I'll share a brief thought about the importance of protecting what you allow into your heart, mind and life...and how to make sure the good wolf that is inside of you is the wolf that wins in the end. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share a quick thought about how to help the opinions and labels from others to keep from sticking to you. I'll share a few thoughts about how to break free of what others think and become more free to be yourself. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

In today's episode on the DDT, I'll share one of my most favorite stories about recognizing your personal worth and the importance that as a teenager you find yourself in places and around people who see it as well. Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website

Today's message on the DDT is all about YOU! And how to stop trying to be something you're not and embrace all that you are. Your uniqueness is a gift, and one easily lost in a world where we are always comparing and being compared to. The greatest gift you can give to yourself in life is to learn to be ok being yourself...to be ok being YOU! Follow Josh on Instagram Follow the Daily Drive on Instagram Sign up for Josh's News Letter Visit the Daily Drive Website