Posts Tagged ‘Choosing what you love’

Personally—Richard Geller

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Personally

Personally I don’t entertain beliefs
Any more than is absolutely necessary—
The problem with them being
They rarely perform as advertised
And may in fact more often
Blind us to the truth than reveal it

Today I’m told a story about brothers—
About how when one tried to introduce
The new love who’d come into his life
The other brother’s wife barred her
From ever crossing their threshold—
Living as they were “in sin”

After a lifetime with her and two grown sons
The brothers themselves are barely reconciled.
We visit the one now grown desperately
Lonely for she whose passing
At the mere mention of her name
Brings tears for his shunned beloved

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Re: Success & Failure—Richard Geller

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

I love Seth Godin’s blog; today’s is a brief one about an aspect of success and failure. It’s worth reading, and it’s worth subscribing to. Anyhow, I sent him this note on the subject of success and failure.

Periodically, I noodled about whether I was a success or failure…for years…without ever first defining what precisely I meant by success and failure. Bad idea. Without a clear definition, there’s no real possibility for an answer one way or the other. Guaranteed ambiguity!

One day I decided to define success. My friends (writers by the way) tried to discourage me. “What! Are you still thinking about that old whore?”

But, to me, success was a legitimate word and required a definition. Images of what success Iooked like in the media just didn’t feel like success to me.

It took about a year. But about six months after I started building aSiteAboutSomething, it came to me:

Success was doing what I came here to do.

Failure was not doing what I came here to do.

I was doing what I came here to do.

I was a success. And that felt right to me.

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Thinking About You—Richard Geller

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I’ve been thinking about you—the people who enjoy my stories and songs, and who will enjoy Living On The Outskirts Of Heaven, a collection of poems about achieving peace of mind that I’ll be releasing shortly.

I’m thinking about you, because I’m choosing to spend more time marketing and promoting http://www.aSiteAboutSomething.com and less time doing corporate work. I’m choosing what I love and find challenging and personally meaningful over what I still need to do but don’t especially love.

I’m thinking about you because I don’t know where to look for you online.

As a group, you tend to be self-reflective, curious about life and highly intelligent. You’re filled with wonder and optimism. And you’re also a bit alienated or skeptical of the world’s values. You may have been trusting of authority and found it wanting. You are seekers in all the various senses of that word. And if this was thirty or forty years ago, I’d know exactly where to look for you.

So I ask myself what are you doing today? What are you most interested in now? What still interests some of you after many years? I think you must be just about everywhere—in every field. I ask myself what do you find especially interesting right now? What causes and issues are most important to you? Where is the future happening? Because I’m sure you’re busy checking that out online too. I’ll keep looking for you; I hope you’ll tell the others.

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