By choice... We're always waiting for something. The big break at work. The house getting cleaned. Paying the bills on time. Waiting. So how do we break the habit?

We should constantly be planting seeds. It's that growth that helps to feed the entire community and not just a feeling.

Putting ourselves in the right frame of mind requires compartmentalizing. Not an easy walk. I envision it being like the computer folders where we store data. The first step is always giving the folder a name. I've always treated them like book titles. The items in the computer folder should be connected to the information stored. I believe we do it mentally. We store our emotions and dreams inside folders with book title names and can never relocate them. Putting ourselves in the right frame of mind means taking the secrecy out of the reason why a folder was made. Call out your folder for what it is.

Mood swings and mind sets are a choice. Just like winning is a choice. But how do you react when a whistleblower calls you out? That positive up tempo presentation is actually a well disciplined action to a reaction.

How is the world supposed to react? By protest? Is this really how it's going to be? The missing link is accountability. Nobody wants confrontation. Our hearts need to be reminded of disciplines being met.

Thanks for being part of the conversation I am the Poet In The Forest. A children series I penned out in the 1990s. None of it would be possible if it wasn’t for this forest in South Charlotte, NC. I talk about it so much that I thought maybe it’s time you get to meet all that inspires me. Thanks for being part of the conversation

We all admit to it. We're addicted to reality tv and the shows that play off their energy. But what is it doing to us? It starts with why we are doing it then we can help the mindset when having to cope with the reasons behind the addiction.

Show up. Do your part. Not a simple task. The calling isn't always a well educated understanding of expectation. Learn as you go. The school of hard knocks.