Daily Motivator for September 28 – Powerful combination

Powerful combination

Be thankful for what you’ve done, learn from it, and use what you now know to  move forward. Regretting and second-guessing your past actions will just hold  you back, so quit beating yourself up and start pushing yourself ahead.

Though your past hasn’t been perfect, it has been successful in many ways.  For what you’ve done in the past has provided you with the opportunities you now  have in the present.

In a very real sense, you are more knowledgeable, more capable, more  experienced and more inspired right now than ever before. You are now here,  ready to make good, meaningful use of all that.

Now, you have the opportunity to transform past disappointments into future  successes. Take whatever has happened, and choose for it to serve you well going  forward.

This is not the time to rest on your previous achievements or to be  demoralized by your past mistakes. This is the time to gather it all into a  positive forward momentum.

This is a new moment and you are the best you’ve ever been. Transform that  powerful combination into truly valuable results.

— Ralph Marston

Daily Motivator

I Am Called Woman

I Am Called Woman

I am called WOMAN
Not because I’m feminine but
For who I am, have been thru, and aspire to be

Not because I’ve failed or lost but
Because I’ve tried, persevered, endured
Kept trying, cried…
Sometimes bitterly!

When the future seemed bare and fallow
The path under my feet
Rough, dry, empty, scorched
Hollow

I dug deep, very deep… far deep
Where rabbits and moles live
Hide, play, escape
Retreat

I have tasted the earth
Mud, sand, dryness, moisture
Manure, drought, death, haa-aah
Birth

I plunge downwards like a seabird
Grabbing what’s left of hope,
Gripping it tightly, remembering my bond
My word

Then like an eagle I rise
Clutching the unreachable,
Beholding yesterday from my loft
The skies

Finally… battle won!
Now I own the dream, enjoy the grandeur
For this reason I proudly stand
And am called WOMAN!

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