Choose Engagement

Choose Engagement

India

A new growth country,

working a new

way of reaching out

with new feelings

and words,

some of them spelled

backwards and upside down.

Scratchy pens-

an array of them-

carbon black ink on paper

from afar,

foreign, everything foreign,

fresh hard work,

failure, loss deep,

beneath some

dark, holy river,

sometimes light, yes,

a new world giving

new color

to the new country,

the chasm

so long felt

I see,

behind me.

To Ponder

            1.   I find myself marveling today over the countless changes

                  a full human life must master.

            2.   We are quick to see this as an infant becomes a child.

            3.   Other changes, though, seem so repugnant or difficult

                  that we’re amazed, looking back, that we mastered them.

            4.   In my work I’ve seen successful culture change in

                  organizations that reclaimed who they are that they’d

                  lost sight of.

            5.   Since change is essential and inevitable in evolved life,

                  astute selection of engagement is the opening step

                  toward consummation.

            6.   Seeing past fear is the dominant imperative to

                  engagement with others and the looming task.

            7.   The sought single choice among a diversity of ideas and

                  options is the one that can lead to distinctive results.

                  Make that your choice!

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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