Gymnasts: Plant the Right Seeds

PLANT THE RIGHT SEEDS

The human mind has been said to be as fertile as the best kept garden. It has amazing capacity to abundantly grow and flourish in magnificent fashion. All it takes is a passionate gardener and the right seeds.

Being fertile and ready for input (seeds) the mind will grow whatever it is you care to plant. It does not care as it only wants to grow something. For instance if we have 2 seeds, one of hybrid petunias carrying a legacy of beauty and the other of your ordinary yet overwhelming dandelion weed, and we plant them both, both will grow. The weed seed requires less attention, yet will grow and multiply until it dominates the flower seed. The flower seed requires a little more attention, water, nutrients, and sunshine but has the potential to be captivatingly impressive. Your mind works the same way.

As hard as we try to keep the weeds out of our garden, they are relentless in their attempts to invade and dominate. As hard as we try to plant positive seeds in the mind, there will always be the negative seed trying to sprout roots. In the perfect world we would simply not allow the weed seeds (the negative self talk, defeatist attitudes, doubt, frustration, anxiety and worry) into our beautiful gardens. This should be goal one but will inevitably need assistance from the gardener (you). You will from time to time have to meticulously weed your garden and the sooner you get at it the better (ever try to pull a weed that has established roots for a significant period of time?). Get those weeds while they are in their infancy.

The garden soil also does not care who plants the seeds. An unsuspecting gardener can have his prideful display sabotaged by an outsider. Coaches, parents and teammates must be conscious of the fact that they too can plant weed seeds into even the most well maintained and cared for garden. Be on the lookout for these influences.

Comparing the human mind to that of soil may seen somewhat simplistic. We obviously realize that the mind is far more fertile, mysterious and complex than that of mother earth. But in reality if we plant the right seeds, (a well conceived and worthwhile goal or thought), the harvest will in turn be rich and spectacular.

This entire concept puts you the gardener in complete control of the product that is produced. No longer can you blame your circumstances for what you are or what you have become. I can not buy into the idea that circumstances dictate our path. The main message here is for you to take complete control of your garden. Those that do will find themselves seeking the circumstances they want, and if they don’t find any, they create their own. This is all a result of planting the right seeds.

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