by Steve Rice
Remember your first day at a new school?
Maybe it was grade school. Maybe in university. The gut-gnawing uncertainty. People everywhere, yet you feel so alone. You just want to go hide somewhere.
Life can feel like that, can’t it?
Why am I here? Why can’t I seem to get my stuff together? Why does everything seem to fall into place for others and never for me? [Read more...]
Driven
Focused
Goal-oriented
Ambitious
Compassionate
Kind
Sarcastic
Witty
Wise
And in the past, I would have added “passionate” to the list. In reality, I was still searching for my passion in life. [Read more...]
NOTE: Read to the end (or skip there now) for a great opportunity to work with me directly in 2013.
In my riff about 2013, I shared my new and improved mission.
To create a life and business that sustains me and enriches others
Apparently, this resonates with many of you as well. Why?
We all want to make a difference. We want to feel like our life matters.
I have to admit, Results and I have a rocky past. There have been times in my life where I have achieved really great results that I’m very proud of.
And then again, other times–not so much. [Read more...]
You spend all week anticipating the weekend. You count down each day by the hour. You make it to Wednesday and give a cheer that you only have to endure two more days until you get a reprieve.
Then Friday evening arrives. You made it! But you’re so exhausted and drained you can barely do anything but “veg” out.
Then as Sunday evening comes to a close, your stomach starts to tighten and you’re filled with anxiety when you realize that you have to go to bed because Monday morning is coming on and facing the start of a new week is the one thing you dread most in your life. [Read more...]
Think of the kindest person you know.
What made you think of them? Was it their attitude? Their disposition? Their actions?
How do you define or identify kindness, personally?
This week, some co-workers and I were treated unkindly by a supervisor. The statement he made was so abrupt that it shocked me a bit at first, but it made me really start to think about why we choose unkindness in our interactions with one another. [Read more...]
In 2006, President George W. Bush made the dramatic statement, “I’m the decider, and I decide what’s best.”
This is not a post about politics, but I’m using that quote as a launching point for my assertion that you are the decider in your life.
This is the second part of a 3-part series inspired by insights from my book, An Imperceptible Spark. If you didn’t catch part one yesterday, you can go here to check it out.
You create the meaning of your life. The nature of life is constant change and stimulus, but you decide what each circumstance of your experience means. [Read more...]
We have a dysfunctional GPS in one of our cars.
She (our GPS is a “she”) periodically decides to inform us of the exit we should take right as we’re flying past at 65 or 70 miles per hour.
This is exactly what happened this past weekend as we were leaving town to head to Upper Peninsula, Michigan. [Read more...]
In this episode, I discuss 3 steps I have learned over the past decade as I have searched for meaning and purpose in my own life.
1. Ask for guidance
2. Allow the answer
3. Be ready to take action
Find out how these 3 steps have helped me in facing releasing resistance in my quest.
Also, listen to the story of the insight that I uncovered on a recent sightseeing cruise to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore along Lake Superior in Michigan.
(Find out why the trees at the top of the cliff are so short)
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I almost threw up a little when I wrote that headline and I know your Bullshit-ometer is probably about to blow.
So let me just put you at ease by disappointing your expectations in this post at the beginning.
These steps won’t pay off your student loans magically.
These steps won’t find your soulmate immediately.
These steps most definitely will not fix your life categorically.
(If you seriously need a life fix, I recommend therapy…no, seriously. A good therapist is worth her weight in gold!) [Read more...]
Do you do everything in your power to avoid uncertainty in your life? Most of us do.
Let me tell you a secret: You gotta give it up!
You will never be able to fortify your life against uncertainty.
The only thing you can be certain of is that life is uncertain
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This may seem like a strange assertion in a post about how to bring certainty to the uncertainty, so let me explain.
