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Want Direction? Just Move!

Donna HighfillBlogAugust 1, 2014

Changing direction in life requires a lot of power, and I have changed direction enough to know. If I were a windsock you’d have no idea what direction the wind is actually blowing.

But my journey through so many changes has helped me deduce where to draw power, even when you want to put on your bunny slippers, grab some chocolate, turn on House Hunters and never get off the couch.

Once, while I was sitting on my couch in bunny slippers, I read a biography of the talented Dick Van Dyke. Towards the end of the book he was asked about his secret to longevity. His answer?

 

Just Move!

Sometimes my head says, “move!”

While the brain refuses.

My thoughts say “go!”

While my feet are useless.

I ask for direction

Is the universe is lazy?

I wait for sanity

But the gods must be crazy.

The fears pile up

Along with the bills.

My heart and brain

In a battle of wills.

So what do I do now?

Do I wait for a sign?

Or do I sit on the couch

And groan and malign?

Perhaps I need to stop

The dream analysis

And take one step

To unfreeze my paralysis.

It’s in the movement

that answers arrive.

It’s in the doing

that I feel alive.

So I’ll stop the waiting

And start moving my feet,

For I have found it’s the journey,

That makes me complete.

— Donna Highfill

 

 

Tags: Change, donna highfill, motivation, Power

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