Growing or dying?

While she numbs, I confront.

While she avoids, I pursue.

While she dies, I grow.

While she resists, I surrender.

While she consumes, I learn.

While she accepts, I question.

While she complies, I stand.

While she is stagnant, I move.

While she gets sick, I heal.

While she holds on, I let go.

While she is blind, I can see.

While she stays in the past, I look to the future.

While she is being hypnotized, I awaken.

While she lies, I seek and speak Truth.

While she creates chaos, I create calm.

While she gets complacent, I'm being inspired.

While she gets sucked in, I go to nature.

While she moves backwards, I move forwards.

While she puts on the happy face sticker, I get to the cause.

While she's being distracted, I learn to focus.

While she blames, I take responsibility.

While she gets weaker, I get stronger.

While she chooses to lose, I'm learning to win.

While she settles for mediocrity, I'm pursuing excellence.

My greatest teachers are often those who I learn what not to do and how not to be.

Clarity through contrast.

It's often easier to see what I don't want in others than to face the mirror.

Witnessing their lives inspires me to get better each and every day - to choose growth - and want to be more.

I will no longer settle for what I have been creating and who I've been.

I use their example to serve me, so I can see my own blind spots - ideally choose differently - and be who I am truly meant to be.

I am grateful for my teachers.

I am grateful for the inspiration.

I am grateful for this day.

I am grateful for this life.