Encouraging Others

Yards measure what matter; acres do likewise for farmers.

The ability to encourage others isn’t a gift but a choice. All of us are capable when we are compassionate. If so, words flow and wisdom follows, answering their issues and easing their consciences. Contemporarily, however, we relinquish this role to counselors and life coaches. Yet sufficiently touched each of us could erupt and encourage accordingly, incredibly even.

Our Grip

When grief grips grit fails.

We lose our grip when we lose our grit. Nothing then makes sense. We tell our stories to ease our miseries. Yet nothing consoles until we reclaim ourselves.

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PURSUING GREATNESS

Wisdom is buried within the problem.

Close your eyes lest you stumble, and close your mouth lest you grumble. Solve the problem by perservering, rejecting the doubt that you are hearing. You can never gain wisdom without fixing the problem. Moreover no one ever became great without being engulfed. If they did, they didn't last.

THE CHORUS

You have to be porous to hear the chorus that calls some to greatness. Those who can't ignore its chant, being deaf to music.

SIGNS

SIGNS SEVER SOME FROM THEMSELVES.

Signs are deceiving, especially when they are lacking. Then we believe that our dreams will never happen. Desire waters but barrenness follows. We can't imagine why because we followed the recipe exactly. We forget, however, the law of reciprocity, which promises that we will reap in due season. But even this helps, provided we harness doubt's power. In failing, we cease believing that our season is coming. We trust more in signs than we do in ourselves. Achievers endure though signs fail.

REQUIRING SUCCESS

The timid die intestate.

Success requires that we be kind and considerate, open and inventive, surrendering to nothing but what aids our aims.