Everyone admires the person with confidenceConfidence is so much flashier than ordinary competenceIt gets things done with pizzazz and panacheTaking the risks that to others seem rash Confidence has flamboyance that’s fun to observeIt has flair and style and glamour and verveConfidence confidently pushes the limitsTaking risks not considered by someone more timid And the …
Do you feel like your life is not moving forward?Are you stuck in cool territory and not getting warmer?Do obstacles seem to spring up on the left and the right?Does no one understand your creative plight? Is your project sitting there gathering dustIs your masterpiece as stale as leftover crustIs your novel stalled on about …
The gods I know live in full emptinessWhere nothingness is the only stuff that existsWhere every instant is totally fullOf possibilities for push or pull The gods I know create all they createFrom nothing not even an empty slateThen everything created is returned to fillThe emptiness with nothing that cannot be spilled The gods I …
Choosing one candidate from two shitty choicesIs how power brokers let us think we have voicesWe don’t actually have a vote or a sayOr even get to choose the game that we playWe don’t get to choose who is really electedThose who really chose try to stay undetectedThey just want us to blindly go through …
Branding is knowing for sure where you standIt defines how you influence and create demandFor what you must do as you experience becomingWalking to the beat of the drum that you’re drumming It’s the simplest way, it’s really nothing moreIt’s knowing your principles and who you are at your coreBranding isn’t image, a graphic, or …
Work-life balance is a monumental ruseA marketing ploy, a guilt-ridden excuseAn artificial dichotomy that will only confuseAnd convince you that you like being abusedBy the choices you make when you’re forced to chooseOne thing over all the others You want to do life right, and play it smartDon’t buy-in to the notion that work is …
I look back on the years some people think I wastedWhen each day was a lavish repast to be tastedWhen I struggled while others just cut and pasted I learned how to do things because I was curiousSome of them well reasoned, some of them spuriousBut every bit of it was valuable experience Those wasted …
When we ask who am I, our minds offer a clueYou are without question, The Magnificent YouYou are the master of all you perceiveYou are a winner with cards up your sleeve And that’s such a great answer we’re willing to believeA more realistic description just can’t be conceivedWhy clearly this must be the description …
I thought about giving you advice todayBut I couldn’t find the right words to sayI’m the one who still makes so many mistakesWho am I to say I know what it takes I can tell you about mistakes I have madeI can tell you about advice that I disobeyedI can tell you about the ways …
Forgiveness is free so you can always give itBut only if you are ready to live itOr you can choose to live with the limitationsThe burdens of grudges and continuing frustrationOf carrying the past with you into the futureEvery day you must be your own abuserHanging on to something through force of prideSomething that surrounds …