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The Ripple Effect

Never underestimate the effect of small efforts made consistently. We can move mountains that way.

I approach the idea of changing the world for the better one day at a time, one mind at a time. If I do not chunk it down in my own mind, it becomes too daunting, seemingly impossible. Changing one other mind about what is possible sounds like a small accomplishment in day, but is it?

Not really. I count on the ripple effect. If I can affect one mind, and they go out and affect someone else, who changes someone else, and on it goes, that’s huge.

I never know where it goes, or how far it goes in any given day, but I count on the ripple effect.

What ripple will you create today?

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Risk Opens New Doors

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Risk opens new doors... is a snippet from a longer poem, published a few years ago in an anthology of work written by seven women. This was my piece on the theme of risk.

Dare to Risk

Why have you chosen
a life that you say you hate?
You are chained by fear.

Risk opens new doors,
the guard at the prison gate
is really just you.

When your box gets small,
and you cannot breathe at all,
Alice says, “Stretch your mind”.

Click the Ruby Shoes!
You’ve always had the power
to claim your true Self.

Release from your past,
imagine a new future,
choose your happiness!

And an excerpt on risk from my ebook Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small:

“We humans have a tendency to stay within our familiar routines and patterns. After all, that’s our safe zone, right? Change can be a very uncomfortable proposition, but the comfort zone inevitably becomes a boring prison. When we feel antsy and our hearts are screaming to break down the walls, this is a signal that it’s time for change. Our souls want to learn and grow. It’s a deep drive within each of us, but fear of change tends to hold us back. To become unstuck, we must have courage to let go of the old and try something new…“

Your beautiful soul was not meant to be caged. What risk will you take, what wall are you going to break down, what new door will you walk through today, to claim your happiness? Carpe diem.

Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small is free for subscribers here. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday. 🙂

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Yes You Can

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So many people believe they have no power as an individual to change the world, but yes we do. It is simply the thought that we have no power that disempowers us, nothing else. (And the matrix of society intentionally feeds us the idea that we don’t, consequently when we accept it, we don’t.)

When we each embrace our own inner power to create the world WE want, we will be come the collective that does.

The image is a quote from my fiction story, The Turquoise Heart.

© Susan L Hart, HartInspirations.com

Speak Your Inner Truth

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Speak, whether it is simply using your voice, or through the written word. Try as much as possible to make your words positive ones, because words are seeds.

Speak about life, its essence, its beauty, your loves, your passion for it all, your ideas and inventions. Our world needs more creativity, and when we share it with others, we inspire each other. It builds.

Speak about the values that you believe lend integrity to life, that build the moral fiber of society, the higher ideals of philosophers. No dream is too lofty. We really need more big lofty dreams right now, because dreams when embraced passionately have this curious way of manifesting.

Speak to protect the innocent, for they do not have the experience to know when they are being preyed upon, or the wherewithal to protect themselves. We who do know better have a responsibility to protect them.

Most of all, simply speak your inner truth. Give yourself time to really get in touch with it. You know more than you think you do.

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
~ Coco Chanel

Melding

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Everything fades to dust
eventually,
the wheels of progress turn
inevitably.

The elders of the tribe
woefully,
remember times not lived
respectfully.

History hides secrets
illicitly,
of the big lessons doled
cruelly.

The past is only known
truthfully,
by the ones who lived it
successfully.

If young people listened
graciously,
to the old wisdom learned
painfully,

together they could build
splendidly,
a new vision that’s forged
lovingly.

Melding is an excerpt from Humanity’s Lament: Poetry for Our Times. It’s free here.

Melding builds on yesterday’s post about Great-Aunt Nelly and her gumption. There was advice she gave me many years ago, and through my arrogant youthful eyes, I assumed she was a lady (although very nice) that could not know a whole lot about the subject we were discussing. After all, she had never married, so how could she? A whole lot, as it turns out. I should have listened better!

Although I grew up in an era where we were taught to respect our elders (and I did), we weren’t necessarily good at appreciating their wisdom. Perhaps given the state of our world, we should be embracing the wisdom of our elders. Real change, I believe, could be better accomplished with a broader inter-generational perspective, accomplished through conversation, cooperation, and intentional action.