GROWING

Motivation gets you going, only discipline keeps you GROWING!

Quote by John Maxwell

REFLECTION:

  • What disciplines have you instituted in 2019 that helped you grow?
  • As you prepare to welcome 2020, what habits do you want to commit to so you can GROW in the year ahead?

Pearls of Life

Little by little, and also in great leaps, life happened to me, and how insignificant this business is.
These veins carried my blood, which I scarcely ever saw, I breathed the air of so many places without keeping a sample of any.
In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.
The best thing was learning not to have too much
either of sorrow or of joy, to hope for the chance of a last drop, to ask more from honey and from twilight.

Poem by Pablo Neruda titled:  OCTOBER FULLNESS 

For complete Poem click here:    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1012925-october-fullness-little-by-little-and-also-in-great-leaps

REFLECTION: 

  • What does this poem say to you?
  • What is a learning you can apply now instead of “in the end?”

GROWING DEEP AND STRONG

We start out thin and green, and each time the sky grows dark, we think we will break, but the downpour makes us grow, though never straight, always twisting for the light, and strangely, the more we reach above the earth, the deeper something in us fingers its way down, and it is this – our unseen fingers reaching for the core – that keeps us from blowing away. 
Now, there is no more running and very little swaying, and up until now, there have been many languages, though none that could be heard, just a creak at dawn and a moan at night and sooner or later, we are brought down.  It doesn’t matter how.  We are undone.  But stacked we burn, and here the poetry rises from us, leaving wisdom in the ash.” 

From:  BOOK OF AWAKENING by Mark Nepo

REFLECTION:

  • Did you have a “downpour that made you grow?”  Describe it.

  • You are stronger than you know -having weathered many dark skies.  What have you learned about how strong you really are?  

  • What wisdom do you want to make sure you impart.