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Erik Rivera

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About Me

I achieve to the degree that I overcome the negative. I am willing to pay the price of achievment. I sacrifice, struggle, and work, sometimes alone, weary, and discouraged and yet I always overcome. The fact about the negative feeling is often overlooked. It is caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not the things themselves. I believe that we all can do something great. It is the inner feeling that we undertake and accomplish. For the most part, all of us have the ability to look at something and to know whether or not we can do it. So in belief there is power: our eyes are opened; our opportunities become plain; our visions-my visions, become reality. The greatest power that we have in belief is choice. We decide where we want to be, who we are and what we think. No one can take this from us. It is ours alone. Now the secret to me is my Faith in God. That faith gives me confidence. There can be no great courage where this is no confidence or assurance. Half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake- Finally. Truth. It is my biggest asset. Truth is what is. It is neither good nor bad, ugly nor beautiful. Truth is just what exists- it is reality. The successful are realists. They are not mislead by false appearances. I see the world for what it is.code: do not remove modify this line or below layout=9034595

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My Interests

Faith, Politics, Environment, Business, Real Estate Development and re-development, Architecture, Economics, European Automobiles, Europe.

I'd like to meet:

Prince charming, but with edge ;)

Heroes:

Fastest Production Cars in the World - Brabus SV12
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My Blog

why? perhaps habit?

As i read my last blog that I just posted the following thought trotted across my thoughts - how do my habits affect my growth. The force of my habits may be swift and force me to success - or worse -...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:37:00 PST

Growth

Growth is the process or responding positively to change. Grappling with calamity, trouble and hardships; experiencing adversity in the spirit of determination and personal courage; not being crushed ...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:26:00 PST

EMR Investment Group, Inc.

I am in the midst of starting a new corporation. It will include real estate investment, re-development and management. It will also include some retail lines and entertaiment venues. It will be a ted...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:30:00 PST

Confidence within you!

The secret of confidence is to prepare onself. One can arrive to a point of competence through practice. You find yourself accomplishing your goals gracefully and confidently. This is then when you be...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:12:00 PST

dying breed

Even though theres probably a few still out there...To every guy that's said, "Sex CAN wait"To every guy that's said, "You're beautiful."To every guy that was never too busy to drive across town to se...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

Why do we fall in LOVE

In some relationships, arguments always seem one sided - with one partner making all the noise as the other quietly calms the storm. It's possible they both have a problem expressing their feelings, b...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:05:00 PST

FULFILLMENT

Riches lie within us, not in material possessions. Our real riches are riches of the mind and heart. Satisfaction comes from appreciating what we have. Wealth without enjoyment is little consolation. ...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST

WISDOM

Wisdom comes from the experience of living. To travel the road of wisdom requires knowledge of ourselves and others-in love and hatred, in joy and sorrow, in victory and defeat. To experience life, an...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:51:00 PST

Commitment

    The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating- in work, play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself ...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:37:00 PST

Trapped in a riptide

A strong pull or attraction feels like swimming againts a strom curretn, trapped in a riptide, and the only thing that you know intuitively is to surrender to it so that you can swim out of it, not kn...
Posted by Erik Rivera on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:33:00 PST