January 09, 2010

Leave it Better Than You Found It

Through a seminar on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility I was asked to describe my personal social responsibility (PSR) strategy. I explored my own core competencies, core objectives, and life goals and came up with this poem to express it all creatively:

Leave it better than you found it

Live BIG.
Bigger than you ever dreamed…
…with smaller footprints in your wake.
Footprints shaped by your actions,
and inactions.
Act WISELY.
With wisdom to rescue what we once had,
the natural beauty and bounty of this earth.
Act NOT on false wants,
society's pressure to have more and be more.
Be but who you are.
Through you we can all be different.
Affect CHANGE.
Change that shakes others
to their very core.
Change that challenges the very ideals
on which we base our existence.
Do not OBEY.
Do not SETTLE FOR LESS.
We have but one life.
One opportunity.
One earth.
She is more delicate
and resilient
than we all give her credit for.

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