My learning today

The road we travel,

The pain, misfortune and misery,

Along the way; will never be witnessed.

Yet in meeting our fellow travellers,

Many a moment we will be judged,

And whether the sweat dripping from our brow,

or the dust discolouring our tunic;

always stand up proud and straight,

with decorum and faith.

Hold up your head proud,

Never in anger; bite your lip,

Wipe the tear,

But banish the fear.

For if you look or squint carefully,

You will see across the divide,

Staring back at you a face,

With more pain and fear or anger to hide...

Smile, reach out and clasp the hand in friendship,

Whether real or pretence, let civility descend,

And your humanity rule (supreme).

theMarketSoul © 2010

An unfinished Poem...

Don’t Hurry

The world will still be turning

And time will run your emotions

And we will still be living.

The struggle is in knowing

And wisdom still eludes us,

Like the sands of time

Its flowing

Should we catch it now or just keep it going?

theMarketSoul ©2010

A Quote of Note

"So let me fill my children's hearts, 
With heroes tales and hope it starts, 
A fire in them so deeds are done, 
With no vain sighs for moments gone."


Stuart Adamson (Big Country - Eiledon)

Solitude (or social networking)

Where do I seek solitude
In crowds of desperate magnitude?
In a corner of the room
Or plunging headlong in everyone else’s gloom?

Reflection is but a potential key
To unlock our frantic flee
Is that our or should it be me?

Speeding, speeding speeding
What am I to ping?
Clicker, Flikr or Zing?
Where is my home for networking?

Questions of late
How do we continue to create?
Is it a distracted seeking?
Or hiding behind the bling, bling?

Where do I take theMarketSoul?
Is it a process or a goal?

Is the gaol
Merely a symbol of my fail?
..(ure) to drive me on to moor
or fall victim to the lure
of the empty seeking
for the map
or is it space
I seek to hold up my poker Ace?
Where are we off to in this age?
Running to or from our rage?
And that is where I stop
Or tempt the lure to flop

?

theMarketSoul ©2008

Charisma!

I was inspired by a question asked by one of my connections on LinkedIn:

The question was:

Charisma!
Some people have 'it' and some people are charistmatically challenged.

Is this something that can be learnt, and what would we need to do to become more charistmatic?

My answer:

Character
Humour
Aptitude
Rigour
Identiy
Self-belief
Manner
Attitude

Which leads to this little poem:

CHARISMA!

Someday I met this character

Who had great charm and humour

With great poise and aptitude

He framed the argument with rigour

Knowing himself with solid identity

Good grace, and full of self-belief

He had a style and manner

Rounded off by an excellent attitude

!


© theMarketSoul 2008

FiscalDesigners (Tax Planning)

Fiscal Minimisation Designers are we,
Identifying your jurisdiction
Could be a precarious prediction
Depending on the argument
Leads to our predicament

And loop hole designers are we
Depending on the size of your fee
Will keep us discreet
And you on your feet

Cranking the adding machine
Might keep us slightly keen
But like everything
We live on a prayer and a wing
And you shiny bling
Keeps us from a dishonest fling

So where should we go
And mind you not too slow
Our vehicle of Trust
Is the main thrust
So watch out for the blast ,
it might not be the last

So off he runs,
With all your ones
And a penny to spare, if you and I dare!
[work in progress]

© theMarketSoul 2008

Funky New Jobs Titles

In this new, new world of work

What titles are there yet to lurk?

The new MD

He or she or it could be:

Maverick Director;

Not your average reflector!

The IM is the person

Where intuition is the key

Or are they the Ideas Merchants

or just another fee?

IT stands for Interesting Thing

Technology drives the process

And we are told that knowledge

Must definitely be better than porridge!

The SD drives the sales

Or Sets Deception

Yet revenue collection

their fortunate projection

The HR director,

You’d better respect ‘er

Yet Human Potential

Sounds much more consequential?

Or politically correct,

You OLD cynical fool!

Now even that word

We must reject!

Where am I heading?

With this you ask

Must there be an end?

Or just another bend?

Charisma, inspiration

Or just hyper inflation?

Inspired Profit Mechanic

just more rats running manic?

But to get to the point

I forgot my route

Just tinkering

Under this hood.

I look forward

For backwards is hard

Because of this strain

And a lot of neck pain

Yes, its true!

In the race of life

Looking over my shoulder

I had it all misconstrued

No matter what you call yourself

As long as you with hand on heart

Can jump and not worry, off that shelf

Look out below!!! I’ve made my start!

© 2008 - theMarketSoul