Cliff Wise
Nov 14, 2020
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IMPROVEMENT VS CHANGE

Increments always not enough

Impatience seems to win

More often than not

Everything comes to he who waits

Not for me

Can’t concede to that

I expect more

Want more

Deserve it

After all I’m great

And capable too

Look at all the stuff I can do

Funny how I shine it on

When I fall short

Try again tomorrow

The guy inside keeping score

Doesn’t miss it tho

This time or last

He knows you know

You’re fooling yourself

You don’t really want

To change

It’s just a game

You want to lose

After all

Admit it

There now we’re

Getting someplace

Look around in the

Drawers of your mind

Full of all the musty

Best intentions and resolutions

The big grandiose I’m going to stuff

There it is right on top

The one you really felt bad about

Do one thing

A right now thing

Small doable complete

The guy inside keeping score

Just gave his

Two week notice

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Cliff Wise
Cliff Wise

Written by Cliff Wise

Book series - Anxiety is not Depression ‘Bring Order to the Chaos’, ‘Daily Reader’, ‘Questions and Answers’. The view from the inside about these disorders.

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