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Planting Dreams [Poem]

The day you plant the seed
Is not the day the seed grows

The month after you plant the seed
Is not the day the fruit shows

It isn't until many years later
That seed turns to tree
And tree bears its fruit

Which will never happen of course
If you fail to help that seed
Firmly take root

Water, soil, sun
Energy, attention, love
This is the way to fruition

Any attempt to manipulate
Nature's already perfect pace
Is to misunderstand the mission

Forcing fruit from seed
Removing essentials for growth
Is to put Mother herself, arrogantly underneath

Bring yourself down
To the level of your seeds
And commit to the process of helping them breathe

Otherwise why go through the trouble
Of rushing, yelling, planning
And doing the extreme

When all of that rash action
Forces holes into gravesites
Rather than the foundation of dreams.

Modern Day Alchemy

Somebody give you a dirty look? Give somebody else a smile.

Somebody cut you off in traffic? Let somebody else skip you in line at the store.

Somebody sent you a hateful message? Send somebody else a loving one.

In a world where “more of the same” can make things so much worse—choose to do modern day alchemy instead.

And become an alchemist of human emotion.

Skills Pretending To Be Attitudes

  • Creative / Un-creative
  • Courageous / Shy
  • Disciplined / Undisciplined
  • Trustworthy / Deceitful
  • Open-minded / Closed-minded
  • Vulnerable / Invulnerable

Don’t get it twisted.

What most people think of as innate attitudes are very much so learned skills.

Big Battles

Fight the big battles on the inside
And the big battles on the outside
Suddenly won’t feel so big anymore

Making Time For Each Of Your Dimensions

We are a mind, a body, and a spirit.

We cannot perform at peak capacity with just one and not the others.

Train the body to improve the mind; train the mind to improve the body.

Train the mind to improve the spirit; train the spirit to improve the mind.

Train the spirit to improve the body; train the body to improve the spirit.

Order doesn’t matter.

Spending time on EACH is what matters.