Tag Archives: Adapt

Thought For the Day: Intelligence Is the Ability To Adapt To Change

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

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Through the Years

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading →

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Social Justice Fallacies

Posted on April 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Social Justice Fallaciesby Michael DoyleThere is something to be saidThough I have a given explanationIt’s been rolling around in my headAnd must be spoken for the good of this nationThere is no sense in pursuing ‘equity’It only serves to put … Continue reading →

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On Hearing Without Listening

Posted on May 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Hearing Without Listening: In the modern age, we are constantly in a state of ‘hearing’. The best adapted of us have learned to listen to what is important and tune out the rest of the aural bombardment we live in. … Continue reading →

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Bucket List Cools

Posted on August 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

During this time of limited travel and doing what we can to get through while making history simply by living as well as possible as we adapt to Covid, it’s maybe time to look at bucket lists. Bucket List Cools … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aces, Adapt, Beginning, Bloom, Bring Me, Bucket List, Burning Hot, Checking My List Off, Coming Up, Conspire, Cool, Covid, Crossed Off, Determine, Done, Dreaming, Dreams, Every Day, Everything, Feel, Flames, Forgot, Full Life, Get My Living In, Global, Golden, Growing Room, Heart, High Fever, History, Inside, Know the Way, Last Chance, Living, Lock Down, Making History, Making the Best, Mind, Move, Mystery, Need, Once Again, One By One, Opportunity, Passionate, Photograph, Photos, Planted, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Pushing Too Hard, Remains, Roads, Rules, Running, Seed, Shake, Shimmy, Sown, Travel, Universe, Victor's Crown, Wild Card, Wire | Leave a comment

Adapt, Survive and Overcome

Posted on December 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Life is filled with challenges and adversities to meet and hopefully overcome. That came to mind as I was watching Mowgli. From those thoughts: Adapt, Survive and Overcome by Michael Romani Adapt, survive And overcome Run, boy, run Adapt, feel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt, Adversity, Again, All, Belong, Better, Brass Ring, Challenge, Choser, Decision, Fail, Faith, Found, Frustration, Learn, Lessons, Life, Loser, Mired, Monkey, Mowgli, Overcome, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Prostration, Refuse, Run, Seek, Stay Strong, Strength, Survive, Tears, Together, Up, Win, Winner's Cup | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo 5: To Be me, Not You

Posted on April 6, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Day 5 arrived yesterday about the same time that I upped my running (albeit at a very slow pace) to an hour of running. There’s my excuse and I’m keeping with it. It’s hard to write a new poem when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt, Challenges, Complexity, Crisis, Disease, God, Heaven, Identity, Life, Lithuania, Love, Overcome, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Simplicity, Survive, The Greatest Artist, Thrive | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Look Up to the Stars, Not Down At Your Feet

Posted on March 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always … Continue reading →

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Grasp

Posted on March 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Looking in from the confused but not so distant outside It must have seemed I was grasping from the riptide Flailing around while drowning on apparent dry land That’s what a deep lack of oxygen will command One minute I … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Adapt, Annoying, Daily Prompt, Daughters, Drowning, Form, God, Grasp, Gratitude, ICU, Mental Confusion, New Norm, Outside, Overcome, Oxygen, Pain, Remission, Riptide, Survive, Toxic Exposure, Vagal Nerve, Wordpress | Leave a comment

First Principles: Change Is the Only Constant; Adapt and Thrive

Posted on January 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Change is the only constant in life, one’s ability to adapt to that change determines success in life.” – Benjamin Franklin What were your goals this year? I am running so far behind. I think after I post a poem … Continue reading →

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