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Until I Succeed
I’ll persist to my goal
no matter the speed
I will brave through each failure
until I succeed
Do it
The fastest way around it
…is through it…
dodge the doubt
and just do it
Keep on going
How long will it take
There’s no way of knowing
Commit to completing
…and just keep on going
The experience
Life is not a problem to be solved
or an answer to be shown
but an experience to be felt
and an aching to be known
Stillness and Slow
Beneath the drive to succeed
and the hustle to grow
there’s a power in stillness
and a magic in the slow
Being
From a different level
of being
comes a different level
of seeing
Fire
Let the fire of your failure
fuel the furnace of your soul
obliterate what binds you
and alight you to your whole
Less
The most valuable action to take
might not be something new
yet something your forsake
and something you choose not to do
Rephrase
With a simple rephrase of a question
You can alter the path of a plan
From the victim approach of “why did…?”
To the hero approach of “how can…?”
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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
The Artist
Allow yourself to live in the discomfort
Embrace the tension you’ve been running from
Wrestle with the silence of not knowing
Then marvel at the artist you’ve become
Together we rise
With solo ambition
the path can become
a blind competition
Yet, what if instead…
I shrink, I stretch, I grow
I try, I fail,
I know,
I shrink, I stretch,
I grow
Chains of reaction
These chains of reaction
Hold heavy their bond
Yet, unravel and fall
When we pause…
…then respond
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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