Effort - Do Not Attempt, Achieve - Do Not Endeavor, Succeed

Change and action need effort. How will anything get done otherwise?

What we need to do takes commitment, energy, dedication - a bit of us really.

So be wise and thoughtful where you put your energies. You (probably) don't have an inexhaustible supply - so use it well.

Change takes application on our part. Both physical and psychological. Think before you act. Feel and use your instincts, that is what they are there for.

We can view our efforts as a chore, but does that not depend upon what we are doing, the path we are taking and the direction our life is going in?

If we associate our endeavors as trouble, hard graft, toil, stress, blood, sweat and tears - then that may well be what we experience. If we associate our applying ourselves as achieving, being productive, creating, attaining, accomplishing - what a turn around in feeling and fortune we may have. We decide . . .

So as ever we have choices - do we put the effort in or not? And how or why.

We can get into things and over think and not make (any) progress. At times we can question and wonder. Are we doing the right thing - and not only for ourselves but our family and loved ones.

We can sit around and think or we can act. Sure we can have reservations and doubts but if we need to act then we should.

We can question our motives and try to find some meaning in what we are doing.

At times like these words can be very powerful - healing, soothing, comforting, relaxing . . .

The power of words . . .

If we let them filter through and allow the words their power to move and rejuvenate.

I hope this page will do this and more. I hope this example will help to express life in an insightful, penetrating but easy to read manner. And help us to question the lives we lead and the manner in which we live them.

Oh I wish life would not be the effort it seems
that tests my resolve and my regimes
for I really want to manage change
but would for an easy life exchange

This hard work for something much easier
but would it, I ask, be such an anchor
for me to engage with myself and my action
not just leave them alone and avoid the application

Of my talents and strengths in the ways that they require
to be used and made available that does not backfire
and blow up in my face at the least little thing
I'd love it if only the rest of my life with truth did ring

Are you not glad the attempt you made
was really such a success
no need to worry about making the grade
you're just happy to express
your value system you happily obeyed
boy did it help your process
of mastering change leaving you unswayed
no need your mind to suppress
happy with your effort and admirably repaid
life is great you're happy to profess

All best,
Martin