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How do

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How do you plan your goals?

I plan my goals?

I usually write down what I want to accomplish and then list deadlines to meet it or plan it out step by step because I can’t try to do it all in one day.

I’ve learned that if I take it slow, I’m more likely to get it done.

I like to finish tasks now, but sometimes, planning doesn’t go to plan. If I can see and focus on the goal, I can get it done.

Planning it out is the only way I accomplish goals and desires to do something, or else nothing will get done for me.

Poetry

Hanging on

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To hope like a loss thread that everything will work out.

But then my true desire pulls me forward and there’s no going back now.

As the feeling is so strong, I can’t ignore it, and once I face it, it feels so right.

And all along, what was I thinking when this is what I was meant to do?

It’s like my plans were not suitable, and now I’m back where I was a month ago, doing the thing I love.

And I know now my plans weren’t God’s, and so on a wild goose tale I went.

Not looking around or about because I thought I was right, and life just laughed at me, and now I see how silly I was.

Oh, how I laugh as I open my eyes and enjoy the beauty of a new day. And I know I will never forget what a lesson I learned today.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

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The word I feel

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What is a word you feel that too many people use?

That people use too much is?

I don’t know, or I’m so tired, or I know

Mostly, I’m guilty of saying I’m so tired which is true when I’m working.

But I once had a co-worker who would say I know all the time when she didn’t know the answer.

But I guess we get set in our ways of life, and these words are easily the first thing that comes to mind when we say them.

Maybe we will stop saying them or at least be more aware of how much we use them from now on.

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What brings

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What brings you peace?

Me peace?

Praying to my Lord and reading my Bible

Listening to music

Reading and writing

Also, when I play video games in those moments, I focus on the moment, and no stress can break my peaceful time.

Poetry

I went seeking

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The letters that would tell me about you

The one person I never got to know before I was born.

When my eyes opened for the first time, you were already gone.

But all my life, they said I looked and acted just like you.

So, on a bright sunny morning, I found the dresser filled with your words, and I read them until I could see out my eyes from all the tears I cried.

But as the sun shined through and I got through half of your letters, I am so grateful you wrote to me and about your life.

So now, as I walk through this life, I have pieces of you with me no matter where I go.

And I hope one day to write as beautifully as you once did, grandmother.

Because of you, I love to write and sing, and one day, everyone will know me for me and as your granddaughter, too.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

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What

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What profession do you admire most and why?

What profession do you admire the most and why?

I’m not going to say just one because I feel if you work in the medical field and are a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, CNA, or even pharmacy technician.

In the hospital, you may not be thinking about a pharmacist or their techs, but we answer and help doctors and nurses just as much as a team. We work together to make sure patients and their families are taken care of.

We are all trying to help make them better, and even if we are not at the front all the time, we are there, and for that, I appreciate everyone who cares and acts to their best abilities.

We all have a job, and I, for one, have been working in a hospital pharmacy overnight. I know we all work together to get it done and get meds on time, and we all understand when the urgency is there, and we throw up prayers just as if they were our loved ones, for we want the best outcome, too.

So, I admire all those in the medical field. Wherever you are, I hope you are blessed and safe, for we will continue putting others first. But I hope you take time for yourself, too, for it is needed and deserved!

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If I were

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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

To open up a shop what would I sell.

Um, books and journals and art supplies.

Those are the things I have a lot of and love to do.

But take it farther I feel like it be in a space where you can eat and drink and like do live work.

Like sit down and read the book you brought, and if you came in and had a spark of inspiration, you can go to the ease section and start painting away, or you just got one of my customized journals and want to sit down and write.

It would be a store of creative and positive vibes and makes you feel at home.

Poetry

Oh when will

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Summer end so I curl up in front of the fireplace with a good book.

I get so lost in the pages that the cold doesn’t bother me anymore.

Only in between chapters will I look up and admire the fire.

For it’s the little things, I look forward to and know what adds up in my life.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

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This one

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What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

It got me because the first thing that popped into my mind was my phone and wallet for identification and money.

But then I saw someone say the Lord, and I realized why wasn’t that the first thing for me.

Because when I know things will be wrong, I reach out to him.

When I pray for a good night and protection before I get to where I must go, I don’t think about anything else, for I want to lean on him.

I wouldn’t be who I am without him, so why do material things pop up before him? The answer is I am flawed, and I am human, and sometimes I don’t realize how lucky I am because of my faith, which is the most important thing to me.