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At your best, you choose love. You feel fear Or anxiety Or selfishness Or anger Or hate But you choose love. You choose love Because you’ve chosen fear…
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It happens to the best of us We misstep Miscalculate Misjudge Miss angles Or just plain mess up. When we do There’s a temptation To berate and admonish…
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Sometimes A good mood Is nothing more Than a bad mood Interrupted. An annoyance Acknowledged But not followed. A frustration Felt And maybe voiced But…
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Our stories. Filled wrong turns And laughter And ache And triumph And connection And struggle Are compelling. Without neat bows. All the loose ends…
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Genius distilled Is being willing and able To see extraordinary things Before they exist. It's being willing and able To believe in those things And…
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Mostly We don’t listen. Mostly We wait to talk. In a world full of people Waiting to talk Listening is defiance. A remarkable act of love. Listening is…
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Employees enter the work world With enthusiasm and hope. Great leadership Fans that flame. It creates conditions That encourage it to burn more…
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You jump in. Things get Intense Quickly. Acutely aware of risks You’re not sure You can Pull it off. Keep making decisions. Equal parts Confidence And…
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Like fire Worry is useful When controlled. But destructive When fed too much fuel. In every situation One of two things Happens. Things work out Or They…
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Dialed in We sense Everything. Angles appear In the shadows. The next step beckons Before we know why. Muscles Don’t ask permission They just move Honed…
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Questions open options Answers focus energy. Questions make us pause Answers help us move. Questions deepen thinking Answers deliver results. Too much…
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Your eye Catches light That others don’t see. Things come alive When you trust Where it leads. Don’t lose yourself In too many questions.
Doug Sundheim
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