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Make change last
While shortcuts
can make changes fast
It’s habits
that make changes last
Surely Seeking You
Be what you can be
and do what you can do
For what you surely seek
is surely seeking you
The “now”
The “now”
Is like a peacock in flight
A million tiny miracles
suspended alight…
The Invisible
We are far more
Than what can be seen
Forever and now
And all in between
Remember your triumphs
Remember your triumphs
In challenging times
History replays in a
Spiral that rhymes
Unstoppable You in 2022
This New Year…
Releasing the old
Inviting the new
Say “yes” to the brave
Unstoppable You
Decision & Change
How many times
Have I intended to change
Yet stopped with the words
“I tried…”
The Hero
“And then the hero walked in…”
A classic story
Where a winner with glory
Shows up for saving the day…
The Quest
The quest is yours
As long as you’re alive
Success is how you live it
Not how you arrive
Letting go is investing
Letting go
is investing
in the new
you’ll come to know
Shine
I will toil if I must
As I shake off the rust
I will polish
This silver to shine
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Life’s guitar
I’m a string on life’s guitar
tuned with the tension to ring
Too loose and I flap
too tight and I snap…
Sprouts
Our garden now is filled
with many tiny sprouts
gently set amongst
the flowers we know…
Fast
Hurrying forward
with tension and fear
The meaning in life slips past
In taking the time…
Creator and Curator
The Creator plants the seeds,
grows the trees and gives them root
The Curator pulls the weeds,
prunes the limbs and picks the fruit…
Compare
Beware of the thoughts that compare
Like quicksand they trick us
to sink in despair
Persistence & perfection
When facing creative resistance
And freezing with thoughts of rejection
Step into the path of persistence
And out of the trap of perfection
Beneath the stories
Beneath
the inner stories we allow
Await
the inner glories of the now
We prevailed
Built upon the losses
of all we tried and failed
The loss turned into learning
and that’s how we prevailed
Twice
I’ve made the mistake
and suffered the price
Now let the guilt go
or pay for it twice
Dry desert
Persist through the droughts
Move forward and know
Where dry desert ends
Green grasses grow
No Double Jeopardy
Has a book ever stopped you in your tracks and changed the direction of your thoughts thereafter? One mind-changing moment for me came from the book…
Built upon the losses
of all we tried and failed
The loss turned into learning
and that’s how we prevailed
I’ve made the mistake
and suffered the price
Now let the guilt go
or pay for it twice
Persist through the droughts
Move forward and know
Where dry desert ends
Green grasses grow
Has a book ever stopped you in your tracks and changed the direction of your thoughts thereafter? One mind-changing moment for me came from the book…
Looking back at the loss
While wearing the bruise
Am I victim or hero
…with my actions I choose
Either conform
into what you can see
Or transform
into what you can be
Feedback is a diamond
freshly from the earth
Hard to see the sparkle
in that state
Yet polish off the edges…
Grasping for love
propels it away
Giving with love
attracts it to stay
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