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Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
I got to squeeze in two haikus for the price of one 🙂 Great prompt Ronovan.
They say less is more
My chance of getting slim and less
is becoming a fat chance
Opportunities are slim these days
Grab every chance you’ve got
Hold onto them real tight
©
Jacqueline
Haiku challenge – Slim & Chance
If you don’t promote your craft, no one else will!
No matter how cheesy this might sound, it’s the truth.
Artists are the first to put themselves down and don’t place value on their own worth.
I guess that’s where the phrase ‘hungry artist’ came from.
Brilliant set of people who choose to stay hungry 😉
There’s a difference between blowing your trumpet – which by the way is allowed, so long as you are not too noisy with it – and managing your skilled craft.
P.S. Have you checked out this opportunity to get paid for your creations?
TODAY is bright and the beginning of the rest of my life. Each day is an opportunity to improve on yesterday and I must make myself accountable for each day.
The fragility of human life has grown even more tenuous these days that I wonder if at the hurried rate hatred and violence is eating into the fabric of humanity if people will grow to ripe old age anymore even with the fact that we seem to be more scientifically aware than ever before? I don’t think so! For it does seem that the more we know, the more tenuous life becomes and it brings it home to me that I have to endeavour to live better each day.
I am a firm believer that God inhabits the praise of his people and I see the pep in my steps when I wake each morning and face the rising Sun in thanksgiving. I have compared my grateful heart to my heart that has often sojourned in a labyrinth of dark emotions and I know the better difference.
I have no crystal ball to show me all that may transpire around me before the day is over, all that I am in a position to do, is to accept the Grace and Mercy given and the Will Power to equip myself with mindful, positive truths and reflections to live my life for each day like a prayer.
I am grateful for a conscious heart, mind, good health and the simple things of life because every other thing is just an addition.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
P.S: There are several gratitude/thankful platforms in the blogosphere that you can tune into and get your ithankful going on. I can’t express in words the enormity of Joy and fulfilment that comes from having a heart of gratitude. Please check out Maria’s blog, Colline’s blog and Bernadette’s for thankful/gratitude challenges.
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
‘A Richly Layered and Passionate Read.’ Jan Cliff
If you enjoy my works, you can fuel my creativity with a cup of coffee or a slice of cake
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” Brian Herbert
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At whatever age we find ourselves, we must continue to learn. Growing older does not equate to not living life as full and as enriched as you possibly can as long as your faculties and health are still functioning, in other words, as long as you are alive.
Keep LEARNING!
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
Wonderful, evocative poetry by a talented writer. Left me hungry for more. Jacqueline can write! Linda Bethea
If you enjoy my works and would like to do so, you can fuel my creativity with a slice of cake or coffee
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Regards
Jacqueline.
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
Never leave me lonely
With words left unsaid
You walk away into the dark
Like a mist, that melts away.
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We spend valuable time waiting for the best opportunities, the best time, the best scenario and creating a million and one reasons why we are unqualified to create our own opportunities.
What if that expected opportunity never comes our way? What if no one else believes in us sufficiently to want to hand us such chances?
What would you do? Will you just curl up and watch the time pass or would you take a good look around you and see the little openings that surround you?
Like the saying goes, that opportunity comes but once, however, it has to find you willing and ready.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
Dance to your heart’s delight my African child, until echoes of your stamping feet, beating heart; bright eyes, smiling lips; and waving hands, resonates over and over like thunder claps, reverberating throughout the Universe.
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At no age does the learning of the mind stop except the strictures that we place on ourselves.
Most times the term being set in our ways that we loosely use is actually a self-imposed and nice way of saying, I don’t want to be bothered to change.
For as long as we can keep our minds open to assimilate knowledge, our inner core is rejuvenated, constantly growing and the perspectives of our horizons remains broad.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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We make plans about all that we want in life, but life makes its plans for us as well.
We have a good idea of the structure of how we want it to turn out, but something derails us along the way.
At times, these curve balls actually end up helping to straighten and put us on the right path.
It all depends on how we respond to the challenges and detours that we are offered.
Do we choose to see every strike and fall with a jaundiced eye?
Such an approach bodes chances that we could become embittered and probably lose sight of the little openings and apertures that these lessons offer.
We should focus on other possible alternatives that may be available to us.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Opportunity is taking the situation that you are in and turning it around on its head to make some sense out of it. Opportunity is not going to traipse lazily and knock on your door begging you to pick it up.
Opportunity is not going to traipse lazily and knock on your door begging you to pick it up and it’s not everyone that will have a Cinderella story to tell. Some will have to work their way out of the grate of cinders with all the smoke and never a pair of dainty slippers to lose or Prince galloping to the rescue.
Some will have to work their way out of the grate of cinders with all the smoke and never a pair of dainty slippers to lose or Prince galloping to the rescue.
Adapting to the situation that life presents us is the first key to getting ahead.
Finding the positives that such a situation has to offer and tailoring it to serve some worthwhile purpose in your life is turning an ordinary occasion into a great and well-optimized opportunity.
Your story is an opportunity. Your life is an opportunity. Your art is an opportunity. Your photos are opportunities. Your speaking strength could be an opportunity. Your baking is an opportunity. Your cooking is an opportunity. Your parenting is an opportunity.
Opportunity abounds. Use them as well as you can.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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