by Steve Rice
Mineral deposits on Pictured Rocks, MI (USA)
The dramatic colors on the surface of the rock face in this image are created by water springs which push the minerals out of the rock through openings on the surface.
Once the minerals reach the outside, they oxidize and create beautiful markings on the rock face (I believe the white streaks in the pic are calcium).
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Your Value Lies in YOU!Your value doesn’t lie in how well you measure up to someone else’s expectations.
Your value doesn’t lie in how many check marks you hit on someone else’s evaluation.
Your value lies in YOU.
The part of you that is a unique expression of divine love on earth. The part of you that is perfect and complete. [Read more...]
Trudging from the theater, my mind was foggy. I was completely disoriented by what I’d just witnessed.
It was like I had been there.
The skies were gray and angry. The seas churned and spat.
The doors fell open. Wave after wave, young men rolled up on the shore, welcomed by the barrage of the machine gun fire.
Some ducked and dodged. Others didn’t have the chance.
Normandy.
D-Day.
June 4, 1944
The opening moments of Saving Private Ryan changed me. It has been 14 years since I saw that footage, but I will never forget it.
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The only way to produce confidence is to be courageous enough to face your fears and step into them. Taking action, produces results and creates momentum.
Results + Momentum = Confidence
Often we get sidetracked evaluating our options. Make a decision, take action, then evaluate. The time to evaluate is after you’ve begun to produce results.
This episode will teach you how to build courage in trusting your intuition. You will learn several ways to identify that you are on the “right track”.
You’ll also learn why it is so essential that you begin to create results in order to build confidence.
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You experience criticism. I experience criticism. We all experience criticism. Perhaps you try to avoid it all costs. If so, it may seem difficult to see the gift in criticism.
I want to show you how because it will transform the way you live and will help strengthen your sense of confidence and personal power.
Over the next 3 weeks, I’m going to be covering 3 areas that many of us struggle with when following our dreams–criticism, building confidence, and setting boundaries. [Read more...]
The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain!
Uncertainty is essential to us or we would become bored with our lives. In fact, sometimes when our lives are too certain, we consciously (or unconsciously) create uncertainty.
If you know that life flows with uncertainty, then you are ahead of the game because most people live as if uncertainty is totally unexpected. They are shocked, hurt or even traumatized when it happens.
You become powerful when you bring the a confident knowing to the uncertainty of life. If you learn to bring certainty to the uncertainty, you’ll stand head and shoulders above the rest!
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I suck at conventional job interviews! I’m too honest.
I show up as myself and not as a caricature of who the interviewer wishes I were.
Often an interviewer doesn’t know what she really wants. Worse than that, I think most interviewers want to be fed a line. Honest.
That’s why you get a question like, “what would your friends say is your greatest challenge/achievement?”
She really means: Tell me if you can follow the rules, play nice with others and not rock the boat.
Like most people in life, interviewers want (fake) you to show up and convince them why (fake) you fits the image they’ve already created in their head of who they want you to be.
Okay…maybe you do want to get hired, but you have to admit that you want to make your mark. You want to have an impact. The job is just the game board you play on, right?
So I’m going to tell you the best way to stand out, and you can thank me later…or send candy/booze/money (not necessarily in that order!) [Read more...]
Photo Credit: David Martyn Hunt
Hey! You. Standing in the corner…
I see you.
Hugging the shadows with your eyes half-open, completely consumed by the music, you are hiding in a room full of people.
Strange…because the only person I noticed is you. [Read more...]
