Life choices…

Aiming for wellness.

Just some ideas:
“Choosing” beliefs impacts our wellness and our understanding of the world. Boiling our beliefs down to truth can help us achieve in life. Patience and gratitude pay off.

Lots of choices
Many voices
We each decide what to believe
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Truth is always
How we take it
Play it right and we will achieve
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Develop a better understanding
After first impressions
That could be bang on
And improve our life
Or at least maintain it
We have to work it
To be feeling fine
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Patience rejoices
Steady choices
When we decide what to believe
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Choose our always
How we make it
If we take our time
We will achieve
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Much more understanding
Or open expression
If we are thankful
It improves our life
With how we explain it
We have to work it
So we feel alright

What is next?
Pass the test
Another challenge
So complex
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What is next?
Please no hex
Don’t need more chaos
So hard-pressed
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To get through with no stress
is always best
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What is next?
Just the best
We have good balance
We are blessed
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What is next?
Heaven’s quest
To get more days off
God confessed
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We only get through with enough rest
Plan each project
For the best
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We often work through anything
And treasure whatever is left
Some projects may have no warning
Keeping our senses is always best
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Top projects involve working
With crafts and tunes and rights
Projects can be all morning
some afternoons and nights
Projects can be a sure thing
More heavy duty
Or light
We use all of our balance
To help our sun and moon stay bright
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What is next?
All the rest
For much more pay-off
Good moods protect

The poem reminds me of award-winning research that I helped with.

In 2016 our multi-University team published on “Effective self-management strategies” (in mental health).

Qualitative research.

Delphi consensus, a panel of experts, (doctors, nurses, counsellors, caregivers, people with lived experience, etc.) rate stategies across multiple surveys to develop consensus on effectiveness of strategies, (drawn from exhaustive literature review, interviews and multi-media research).

We determined the top strategies. We also did a thematic analysis. Many conclusions could be drawn.

Relative to this poem, and a relatively unique finding, to be statistically measured, is that one of the top strategies to achieve mental health is to maintain HOPE. Of course, maintaining physical health and other strategies are also key to mental health, but it was somewhat groundbreaking to statistically identify the value of hope.

Open the door
Never close it
We have the presence of mind
To stay more focussed
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Sometimes it’s hard work
Just to show up
We have to get through the grind
So that they know us
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Status quo
Seems so robust
Change is constant
The future grows up
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Maintaining a vision can be a challenge
Developing a system
Helps us balance
If we put more thought
into our choices
We can improve perspectives
Share our voices
*
Answer the door
Please don’t close it
Just keep the presence of mind
Because we chose it
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Sometimes ideas
Seem to blow up
But there are some that we find
That always show up
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Steady flow
Never throws us
Stage that’s current
Each day is hopeful

Just prove our life
When they refuse to believe it
There is so much to do
When they just will not see it
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We all have our occupations
Some do work harder
Some work smarter
Some might be on a bright
Well-deserved
extended vacation
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We deserve to retire
Or be newly hired
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We are all occupied
in some way
In this big equation
Every single day
Some concentration
To make our way
Without hesitation
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Improve our life
So they will have to believe it
There is so much to do
We can learn to achieve it
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We all have our occupations
For some it’s harder
Some get farther
Some always have to fight
To be served
By our most fair nation
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We can serve the up-higher
Not be unduly fired
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We are all occupied
in some way
To avoid frustration
Every single day
Practice meditation
It can be great
To avoid escalation
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We choose a calm way
To embrace
The hard day
The physical labour
And Mental distress
We work though it with calm angles
To pass the test
Then charge through with energy
that works out for the best
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Find proof of life
When we all start to believe it

Following our heart
Can mean following leaders

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I follow my own gut instinct
Sometimes I follow the script

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We may face a world of challenges
That no one else knows about

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When we follow life to the brink
Our hearts can keep us equipped

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There is nothing that we should skip
Being ourselves
keeps us hip

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Mistakes and setbacks
Experience of leaders
Each day makes our own lives distinct
Sometimes we follow the script

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We may face a world of challenges
Build confidence
Get past doubt

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When we take time to stop and think
Our hearts help us to get a grip

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There is no way that we can trip
Being ourselves
Makes us hip

So much going on for all of us.

Challenges and victories.

Tough moments and comfort.

Most of the time, I maintain reasonable content and acceptance… gratitude.

By maintaining this attitude, I get through with solutions and answers.

Most of the day
I feel okay
At least okay
Making my way
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Other times
I still feel fine
Most always fine
Deep in my mind
*
The world out there
Stays out there
Until we care
We hope it’s fair
*
We have to care
*
Most of my life
I feel alright
Most times alright
Finding insight
*
Other hours
I use those powers
Most of my powers
Current views tower
*
The stars up there
Are always there
Sometimes we care
When we are aware
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Truth be known
We are on our own
With patient views
That consider the angles
Build webs that don’t tangle
Holding tight
We feel fine
Most surely fine
All of the time

I can hear the birds
Waking up the day
They welcome us excitedly
In a magical kind of way
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I work through the day
Sometimes through the night
I can’t stop yet
I can’t stop the fight
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In the morning I find courage
A new start is all I need
Moments without worry
A new day takes the lead
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I can see the sun
making up the day
It connects to us infinitely
In a transcendent type of way
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I work for my pay
Sometimes we are tight
I can’t stop yet
I can’t stop the fight
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Raging through time
Calm is vital
A reset is what we need
For moments engines idle
A recharge helps us breathe
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Fresh breeze is in the air

Save all of the day

Now is an eternity

Time can always go our way
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I work just to stay
More times in the light
I can’t stop it
I can’t stop the fight

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I work all the way

And I gain insight

I can’t stop

I can’t stop the fight

In idle moments
Many perspectives
Seem so contrasting
Feeling different from
Everywhere we are standing
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Optimism and courage
Can derive from creativity
Just like our pure certainty
Emerge and see
What we have planned so carefully for
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Options that encourage
Our whole life every single day
Just like the most winning way
Begin a stage
That we have waited faithfully for
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We are free to believe in more versions
We think and work and heal
We aim to succeed so wellness burgeons
Nothing could be as real
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No idle moments
Share our perspectives?
We should be asking
Feeling way better when
We develop understanding

The grease in the fees
Seems to be increasing
So I am not
Releasing
Any more
than I have to
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The score at the store
Won’t fill our core more now
We should share more support paying forward and be glad to
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We work to live
Convey what we give
For our hard work
We should
All receive
Fair wages and
It can’t be about
Fear and doubt
How can they be allowed
To keep stealing our change?
It is beyond strange
It is always something new
*
Life is expanding
Connection outstanding
Modern day
We make our way
Events in our intense lives
And media understanding
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Belief in our needs
Should now be increasing
So that we can
Achieve them
Don’t ignore
That point of view
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The core social world
Still needs us for more now
We only get support being
forward when there’s chance to
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We live to work
Find play and rest first
In our hard life
We should
All receive
Good days here and
It should be about
Care devout
So we can work it out
And improve as we change
It is not out of range
It is always something new

Chaos surrounds us like a cardboard box
We can break through it
any time that we want
But if it gets toxic
The best way to unlock it
Is with the weight we have
as we carry on
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Stand alone
on the road
at the show
Now back at home
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Join together
Share the weather
We do the best we can
To feel much better
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Chaos lashes out like electric shocks
We can ground ourselves
with more chances to talk
About all the causes
Plugging words in the socket
With all that we say
So we can carry on
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Strong like stone
Granite bones
More than shown
Forever known
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Join together
New endeavour
We do the best we can
To make things better

Build a world
Packaged by chaos
Shocking until we are as heavy as stone
We may stand alone
As we make our home
Find peace beyond chaos
With all that is known