Know your worth !

A well known speaker, me, started off many lectures and seminars by holding up a $50 bill.

In the room of a few hundred people, asked, “Who wants this $50 bill?”
Hands started going up. “I am going to give this $50 bill to one of you - but first, let me do this.”

Proceeded to crumple the 50 dollar bill up. asked again “who still wants it”?” Hands were up in the air.
“Well, what if I do this?” dropped it on the ground and started to stomp it into the floor. Picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. “Now, who still wants it?”
Still the hands went in the air.
“You have all just learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to this bill, you still wanted it ! Why ? Because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $50.”

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of your lives come not in what we do or who we know, but by… WHO WE ARE!”