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Bryan Golden

Dare to Live Without Limits: Overcoming Toxic Emotions

You’ve experienced one or more toxic emotions. Anger, frustration, fear, guilt, bitterness, resentment, and sadness negatively impact you. Toxic emotions cause you mental and physical harm.
Anger leads you to do or say things you’ll regret later. Frustration causes you to consider giving up. Fear holds you back by inhibiting action. Guilt makes you ashamed about what you’ve done. Bitterness and resentment cause you to feel sick both mentally and physically. Sadness can be all consuming.

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Jim Bradshaw

Fortune still awaiting a brave soul?

Fabacher Road, which runs west for several miles from Hwy. 91 near Iota is one of the few reminders of the settlement founded in 1871 by the man some claim to be the pioneer of the modern rice industry.
Little remains to mark just where the Fabacher community was, which will make it difficult if you want to look for the fortune supposedly buried there.
The monstrous ghost guarding it may also cause a problem.

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Bryan Golden

Dare to Live Without Limits: Competence vs. Confidence

Your competence is based on what you can do, along with how well you can do it. Your confidence is what you think you can do. Does competence lead to confidence, or does confidence lead to competence? Both can be true because the concepts are interconnected.
Confidence gives you the willpower to acquire new skills. With practice, your competence grows. Increased competence increases your confidence. Realizing you are capable of learning leads to a desire to learn more. Confidence grows with the acquisition of knowledge.

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