How Does Your Garden Grow?

What am I planting in my life today? What kinds of thoughts am I allowing to run loose in my mind, taking up valuable space and time and effort? And if I'm allowing negative thoughts to be the predominant thoughts of today, just what kind of reality am I creating for myself?


Gardeners know that if they plant seeds for dandelions, they aren't going to grow roses. But they also know that if they plant seeds for rose bushes, they have to maintain a healthy environment for the bushes to grow in. They have to maintain a constant vigil, getting rid of weeds that steal the water and adding nutrients to the soil that will help the desired bushes to grow.


Our thoughts are very similar. First, we have to plant the seeds for a positive life by focusing on positive elements of life, on positive possibility and potential. Then we need to maintain a positive, healthy environment for those thoughts to grow and develop, getting rid of the "weeds" of negative thoughts and ideas as soon as they present themselves. It's not always easy, but it also isn't as difficult as some make it seem--it takes effort and time, but it's always possible.


Your harvest will come from time to time as you see the benefits of your positive approach to your own thoughts, or the negative results of the negative thoughts in your mind. What will you harvest? What did you plant?


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