Shifting Gears
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Photo by ParkeHarrison
When things aren’t breaking quite your way
and this world leaves you stuck,
crank it up.
When boredom eats up every day
as you slog through the muck,
crank it up.
When troubles quite confound you,
when the view turns grey around you,
when no marvel can astound you,
crank it up.
Seek no tropical vacation.
Rise above inane flirtation.
Drink no mind-numbing libation.
Crank it up.
Spout no multiple causation.
Amplify the expectation.
Ramp up your (i)machination.
Crank it up.
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“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm…in the real world, all rests on perseverance.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill
Tags: adversity, courage, goals, overcoming
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.