Poem- Don’t bit off more than you can chew

Debjeet Das
2 min readFeb 10, 2022

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Overshooting your capabilities to prove your worth is not required.

Dragging your feet through swampy land where you can get drowned is not desired.

Brazen confrontation with mighty force without knowing your true strength.

Taking the bull by the horn with no support while riding it over entire length.

Resolving to solve mountains of problems and crumbling under their weight.

Unfavourably stretching yourself beyond your circle of competence to meet bad fate.

Trying to be present everywhere as a problem solver is not needed.

Imposing your solution by force when it does not serve the need can make situation quickly overheated.

Taking a flying arrow to the chest due to pointless adventure is needless.

Trying to find a way out of this predicament makes your nights sleepless.

Picking an impossible task only to be left undone.

Standing at the edge while being squeezed by false hope will make you unfit for the long run.

In our quest to solve multiple challenges simultaneously, we falter miserably.

Not keeping track of one thing at a time and getting unnecessarily overloaded makes us miss the bus completely.

The desire to accomplish too much in as little time as possible should be restrained.

Progressing with a gradual pace in step-up fashion should be embraced.

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Debjeet Das
Debjeet Das

Written by Debjeet Das

former Banker in SBI, author of 9 books

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