Clean Your Garden – Uproot, Pluck + Plant Yourself to Grow
A garden is a place where life is cultivated. It’s a safe place for growth – for things to mature and flourish.
A garden is a place of cycles. Everything starts with a seed. Some seeds sprout new life, which either dies or grows to reach maturity. Either way, the cycle of life returns both to dust.
Your life is full of gardens and recurring cycles that act as havens for new experiences. Those gardens are full of people that are hopefully positioned to help you advance, and if they aren’t helping you advance they could be helping you lose in life.
These people can be your family, friends, mentors, leaders, or anyone that’s around you.
- Students – think about your peers.
- Adults – think about your coworkers.
- Leaders – think about your teams.
Every garden has the potential to grow plants and weeds.
Plants are people that help you grow.
Weeds are people that do not – they take more value from you than they add.
Weeds stunt your growth and decrease your visibility, while other plants position you to be pruned (groomed + developed by a cultivator), to progress (empowered + strengthened by utilizing your skills), and finally plucked [proven competent + chosen to complete a single task].
It’s nearly impossible to see the beauty, the value, and the potential of a garden overrun with weeds.
In the same manner, it’s hard for others to look at your beauty, your value, and your potential when it’s overshadowed by the wrong people, energy drainers, and spiritual zombies.
But, when you get around the right group of people, where others are shining and beautiful, it makes your beauty more evident. Other plants that are thriving, flourishing, and full of life, make it easier for others to notice you.
A garden is not a place to compete with others.
Your only competition is you, and because each person [plant] displays its own one of a kind beauty, everyone is free to do their different.
Invest in yourself, because you’re worth it!
So clean up your circle. Clean up your garden. Get around those that desire to do something great.
And if necessary, uproot, pluck, + plant yourself in a garden where you can grow.
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