“It’s kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that’s the way to success.” ~ Buddy Guy
Month: March 2021
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Dig Down and Drive Upward
The only person you have to compete with is yourself. Challenge yourself to reach higher. You can do it. You have a reservoir of untapped potential. Dig down and drive upward.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ The Waking
The Waking
Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I asked my psychologist if driving my car one-hundred miles an hour was an emotional problem.”
Pete: “What did your psychologist say?”
Joe: “She asked me to pay two weeks in advance.”
💡 Something to Think About
You will have doubters. You’ll have people who want you to play it safe. You’ll have people who’ll tell it’s not your time, wait. You can listen to these folks or you can listen to your heart.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I think my girlfriend is going to break up with me.”
Pete: “What makes you think she is going to split?”
Joe: “She text me and asked if I knew a good Netflix movie she could watch with her date.”
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Shine, Shine, and Shine On
““I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
~ Jack London
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Laugh and be Merry
Laugh and be Merry
John Masefield
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of
His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth.
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord.
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,
Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,
Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends.
Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.
🤗 A Better Life ~ The Treasure is Within You
Do you recognize the treasure within you? You have within you a wealth of wisdom, knowledge, and experience. Each day you add to this treasure. Discover the best of your wisdom, knowledge, and experience. Use it to take you places and accomplish great tasks.
