As I seek greatness
I look for something richer
Than mere dominance
Tag: growth
Pursuing Excellence
Believe in God’s light
Become the best I can be
Pursue excellence
Ownership is Empowerment
Ownership gives strength
The problems of someone else
Will never get solved
A haiku which considers the importance of owning our problems, and empowering ourselves to find solutions.
Forward Motion
It’s always time
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Always seek to grow
Always seeking growth
And to manage all my fears
Become what I want
It’s frightening, at times, to always seek growth. It requires constant reminders to watch for fear, the temptation to be comfortable. As a writer and artist, I see how critical it is to push boundaries. Mine as well as others. Perhaps mine are the most important boundaries to smash through. Destroying that which holds me back, which robs me of joy.
The Growth Mindset
Seeking out purpose
And positive energy
For I long to grow
I focus on a growth mindset. Always pushing back on fears and challenging my limiting believes. It’s not easy, but always worth it.
A Haiku About Change
Out of darkness: light
Our souls evolving forwards
Dawn coming out of night
Change, changes: babies become children, children grow tall, dawns become days, winter becomes spring. As we learn, we grow. Experiences grant us wisdom and insight. Often hard won wisdom. Every day we’re different.
I’m exploring new ideas as a blogger. What interests me right now? Positivity.
I’ve been thinking for some time that our culture focuses too much on outrage, anger and despair. Everything from our news foci to our political selections get made based upon such. We’ve become deeply divided, deeply distrustful of each other. We’ve come to a point of gridlock. Which is blamed upon the other side’s idiocy (at best) or evil intent.
I want to focus on a different path. The current mindset has no way forward. At best, one side will temporarily gain enough if an advantage to steamroll through an agenda, fueling outrage on the opposite side. I believe there’s a better way.
I believe we can seek out inspiration instead of outrage. That we can be motivated by this inspiration to move in a common direction. That we don’t need to gorge at the trough of outrage.
We can embrace the power of the individual, of our ability to adapt and grow. Yet we can do so without a Pollyannaish disconnect from reality. Nor do we need to divorce the reality of societal systems dysfunctionality.
I believe there’s a path where we can embrace humility and accept our incomplete understandings. That we can learn to love those different.
I haven’t developed a clear vision of what that works looks like, for its quite alien from mine. We can explore it together. Shall we?
Growth Requires Focus
Greatness comes from work
Passion needs to be nurtured
Always seek to grow
Daily Striving: A Haiku
Every day I strive
To gain wisdom and to grow
Leave this world better
Seeking Boldness
I seek the boldness
To ask critical questions
Even the hard ones
Still an aspiration. As I thrive in consensus and harmony, this is particularly hard. Pushing into discomfort for the sake of growth will always be challenging.