Thursday, April 2, 2015

Tis The Season

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As warm weather comes in to our lives we begins to see a change in our thought and our energy levels.  This has been a long cold winter for many of us.  While others had to live through record amounts of snowfall.  It is a time of restoration in which nature goes dormant or hibernation. Even though this is been natural to us, we have felt we have outgrown the practice.  We adapt and compensate accordingly  as we need to keep being productive.

Now that warm weather is upon us, the idea of changing to become more productive is appealing. Old idea bringing new habits and lessons.  I would like to introduce a new way of living.  It's innovative and habit changing.  It will bring forth increased productivity while increasing the longevity of all involved in this process.

I wish I could take credit for this, but I can not.  The practice is as old as civilization itself.  The lessons to be modeled and learned are from nature.  Actually it is most learned for our benefit from the garden.
             Here are the steps as listed
                   Step 1  Planning  we need to decide what we want to harvest, how much do we want for size, and when it needs to be planted in order to coordinate for the harvest as we don't want all to come on all at once.
                   Step 2  Preparation Just as the soil must be prepared, we must also.  Have we learned  new skill, set forth manageable goals.  If we fail to plan and prepare for this seasons activity, then all we shall harvest will be an accident.  Good or bad, limited or over abundance.
                    Step 3  Planting  After the preparations have been made, the sowing forth the seeds are now placed with care.  Here all are planning and preparation are coming to a dramatic culmination in the garden. What have you planted in your life for this year?  A new job or career?  A new home or maybe even a big leap in  a new neighborhood or new city?
                    Step 4  Caring & Tending  is the time we have to keep the weeds and other intruders out of our crops.  In our thoughts and dreams we dream stealers and eternal doom sayers  Doing everything to make us give up or quit the changes and improvements we are trying to put in our lives.
                     Step 5 Pre-Harvest is the early rewards or fruits we might get now as we continue to care for our projects.  Its not really time for them but they are welcome rewards and reminders we receive along the way so we can see why we are doing this.
                      Step 6 The Harvest is what we receive for our efforts.  All our planning, preparation, planting of the seed, the caring for and protecting our efforts and now the rewards.  All was made possible and successful due to each of the steps we had taken.  Shortening or skipping any of these steps could have lessened or destroyed the crops of our efforts so we could not have enjoyed our fruits of our labors.
                       Step 7  Hibernation and Restoration - You have now gone full circle, Take this time to relax and enjoy.  Allow yourself to re-energize and re-freshen so when the time comes you can move on to bigger and better crops for the next harvest!

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