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It's Not About If You Can - It's About If You Do: 100 Poems of Action and Becoming
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It's Not About If You Can - It's About If You Do
100 Poems of Action and Becoming
By Di Tran
What if the only thing standing between you and your greatest life was movement?
In this beautifully raw and inspiring collection, It's Not About If You Can - It's About If You Do, entrepreneur, immigrant, father, and lifelong action-taker Di Tran takes you on a journey through 100 years of life - from birth to age 100 - in 100 poems and reflections. Each year speaks directly to the reader, revealing the inner excuses, doubts, and fears that try to hold us back at every age - and answering them with one universal truth: Move anyway.
This book is not just poetry. It's a manual for action, growth, and courage, designed to break the cycle of overthinking and replace it with bold movement forward, no matter your age or circumstance.
Each poem is paired with a reflection - a personal, spiritual, and practical conversation from Di Tran's own life experience, growing from a poor Vietnamese immigrant with no English skills to a thriving entrepreneur who leads with love, action, and faith. These reflections remind you that action is not just movement - action is prayer, action is love, action is purpose alive.
Who should read this book?
✅ Anyone stuck between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
✅ Anyone who feels too young or too old to start something new.
✅ Anyone who believes success comes from talent or luck (and is ready to discover the power of simple action).
✅ Anyone who needs a reminder that life is short - and only what you do with your hands, feet, and heart truly matters.
This is more than a book - it's a movement.
Let every page push you to do the thing you've been delaying. Let every poem remind you that movement is meaning. And let every reflection show you that action is love in motion - the only legacy that lasts.
Your future is not waiting for perfect conditions - it's waiting for your next step.
Read this book and move.
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