Your Garden

A Facebook friend of mine put up a post today that really made me think. He started by saying "Every thought, intention, and action is a seed." He then went on to say that it is our job, our responsibility to plant each seed and tend to our garden. Sometimes we plant good seeds, sometimes half seeds, sometimes bad. Whatever we plant will grow.

This post just really inspired me today because I have been struggling with staying positive the past week and a half. I've been lacking motivation and I've been allowing certain things weigh on me. I'd happily blame it on the continuous triple digit heat or the fiasco in Washington but I know this is not true. I've planted a couple not-so-great seeds and tended them with not-so-great water too. And I've done this with full awareness.

But I've also learned some great lessons by doing this. When negativity creeps up on me, I feel like I've developed some great tools to help me work through it and I've put those tools to good use this week to pick myself up. For example, I've been starting each day with the positive passages in my Daily Word, which is a spiritual magazine. I try to read at least one or two entries from the "Crazy Sexy Life" blog each day. I've surrounded myself with positive friends and made plans with them to give myself something to look forward to. I've reminded myself that I don't have to eat 100% healthy, 100% of the time. These are the good seeds. These are the seeds I will tend to with all my energy.

There is no time to wallow. Pick out the weeds and work on your beautiful garden.