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141. Vibrant Garden · Your Enriched Self

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  I often come out here to remind you to be grateful, to have moments
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  of gratitude, and today I want to remind you to be grateful and have
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  a gratitude moment for yourself. I think you need to pause and take a
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  moment and thank yourself, thank yourself for not giving up. Because all of
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  the work that you're pushing yourself to do right now, it's going to pay
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  off for your future self. So take a moment today to thank your current
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  self, the person you have become to stay in this fight, stay in
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  this race, stay on this stride, to the person that you are becoming.
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  It is because of your discernment that you were able to realize that you
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  are not in the right situation, and you made some tough decisions. You
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  made some decisions that in a previous season you probably would not have made.
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  But you have matriculated, you have graduated, you have elevated to this self,
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  this self awareness, this self maturity, and that's why today it's important
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  to give yourself some kudos and thank yourself for trusting yourself in this season,
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  for being your best supporter. Because of what you've done, the work you've
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  done, you have more clarity you have more understanding, not just for yourself,
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  but you have understanding for others, even the ones that wronged you.
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  I have to believe that your growth. As you are grown, you are
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  learning to look out differently. I mean, that's what growth is all about.
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  It's about your perception windows opening up and you're not just looking out of
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  this one frame. You're not seeing things from multiple perspectives. And that is
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  because you are still in this thing. And so if you haven't given yourself
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  kudos, and you haven't given yourself a thank you, and you haven't been
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  grateful for all the experiences that you've had, good, bad, and indifferent,
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  I want you to take a pause for those small things, the big
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  things, and all the little bits in between. Hello, my friends from
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  all across the globe, and welcome to the You're in Yourself Podcast. I
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  am your host, mike Le Noir. I am a mindset coach and your
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  mindset advocate. And what that means is I have curated this space each and
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  every week so that you can become more of your enrich self because I know,
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  if you are listening to this podcast, you are so busy, and
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  unfortunately, when you are as busy as you've been, you are probably the
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  last thing on your list of what is priority, and so this podcast is
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  putting you on top of the list and making you priority because I think we
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  all know that you cannot pour from an empty cup, and it's time for
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  you to have that full cup so that you are able to infact pour into
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  others. And so that's what this is all about. On this podcast,
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  we talk about self care, We talk about soul care and intentional thinking because
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  your thoughts, because your thoughts create your reality. Your thoughts create your reality.
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  Think about that, and so I want you to work on managing those
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  thoughts because those thoughts then become words, and those words then are declarations to
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  the world, declarations about who you are. And those declarations then become the
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  actions and the activities. And that's how you show up in the world.
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  And if you're listening to this podcast, I believe that you want to be
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  and you want to show up as your best self. And so it all
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  starts in the mind, and that's what we talk about here on the podcast.
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  So if you are new, welcome to your Enriched Self family. Thank
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  you for being here. I know the podcast streets are busy, but you
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  chose to be here, and you were brought here on purpose for a purpose.
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  And if you are a repeat listener, we are on episode one hundred
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  and forty one, and that means for one hundred and forty one weeks,
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  you have come to this space for enrichment and nourishment and you're back for more.
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  And I just want to thank you for your continuous support, your questions,
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  your feedback on this podcast, because that's why we are still here.
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  It is all because of you, So thank you for that. Now,
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  before we get into this week's episode, if you know, you know,
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  one of the things that I do each and every week is I I make
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  a deposit into the bank of you, and I do that by way of
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  affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start your day and to command your
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  mourning. And this week's affirmation is and this week's affirmation is I am grateful
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  for the opportunity to embark on this journey of personal growth. I am grateful
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  for the opportunity to embark on this journey of personal growth. I am grateful
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  for the opportunity to embark on this journey of personal growth. Now let's get
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  ready for this week's episode. Of the Your Enriched Self podcast. Everything I
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  know about gardening I learned from my mother. If I were to take a
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  lesson from that, so many lessons by the way, from watching her garden
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  and helping her garden and watching her garden grow, that lesson would be that
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  the soil is probably the most important aspect of gardening. I mean, when
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  you think about it, that's where you're putting down the roots, the seed
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  of what you want to grow and mature and potentially come fruit that you can
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  partake in in the future. And when I think about my mother's garden,
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  I think about our life in general as a garden. Everything about a garden
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  is representative in our lives. I want you to think of yourself today as
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  a vibrant garden. In a garden, there's so much areas and opportunities for
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  growth. But just like the gardens we see with our eyes, you too
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  are a vibrant garden. Just like the garden and the plants in the garden,
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  requiring nourishment to thrive your soul, You, in fact, yearn for
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  the sustenance of this life to flourish, to become, to grow into the
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  best version of yourself. When I think about growth. I think about the
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  fact that we all want to have that potential for extraordinary expansion. And if
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  you're gonna have that potential, you need to have miracle growth. You need
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  to include miracle growth in your process. And I want to make sure that
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  you are not in fact standing in the way of your miracle, because some
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  of you tend to do that. And it starts with your mind. It
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  starts with your thoughts running ahead of you and giving you all these set limitations,
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  some of which you've brought in from past relationships, you brought in from
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  how you grew up you and from your last experience out in the world.
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  And I'm going to caution you to not stand in the way of your miracle
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  by bringing in this baggage, bringing in these weeds that often prevent your soil,
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  prevent your flowers, prevent your plants from blooming and growing at their best
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  potential. These things could in fact be limiting your potential. Just as you
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  want to have that external growth, you need to work on cultivating the inner
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  soil of your being. That's the foundation of your life, that's the foundation
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  of the experiences that you will have in the future. It's all about the
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  foundation you have today. Some of you came into this year, maybe last
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  year or years past with faulty foundations, and that might not be any fault
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  of your own, that might be generational or hereditary or whatever it is is.
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  But now that you know what you have in front of you, now
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  that you know your foundation is in fact faulty, it's time to move with
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  love. It's time to move with compassion and understanding. And now it's time
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  to remove those weeds, remove the fear and the doubt. Those are the
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  things that have taken root. Those are the things you carried over, and
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  those are the things that aren't going to be healthy and helpful for you.
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  To fertilize your environment, your environment for growth, your aspirations, your dreams,
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  your goals, all the things that you want to blossom and grow in
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  this year. This is the perfect time of year to look at your garden,
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  to look at yourself in fact, as a vibrant garden. The thing
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  about a garden is no two gardens are the same. And that's why I
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  say that you are a vibrant garden because in your garden are flowers. There
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  are seasons when you bloomed where you were planted, you bloomed in ways that
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  prized yourself, and people started looking from all over the place. And that's
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  what you've done. You've captivated audiences, individuals, relationships based on that external
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  beauty. But as we got closer, we noticed that there were things that
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  were planted that were deeply rooted into your foundation, some of it good and
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  some of it not so good. Whatever you bring into your environment are the
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  things that live in the garden of your life. And I want you to
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  have a vibrant, healthy garden. And so how do you do that.
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  You got to enrich the soil. It kind of goes back to what I
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  recognize as the most important part of gardening, enriching your soil. Enriching the
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  soil of your life is your work. That's going to require you to spend
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  time meditating. I always call that finding quiet time or finding times of solitude.
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  And I know that's hard in a world where everything is busy and bustling,
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  and sometimes it's hard in your own house to find quiet time. But
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  that's where you've got to be intentional. You have to be intentional about carving
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  out time to do that meditation. You also have to spend time in prayer.
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  You need to spend time in prayer. What I've learned over the years
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  in terms of how I pray now is it is a practice. Meditation is
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  a practice. Prayer is a practice. I also want to add in their
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  journaling it's a practice. People will say I'm not good at praying or I'm
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  not good at meditating. I remember my first meditation experience. I think I
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  talked about it in one of the podcast episodes in the past, But I
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  couldn't meditate. Why because I hadn't spent time doing this activity. And as
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  a matter of fact, every time I went into this quiet space in my
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  mind, I started racing through my thoughts again, and I started thinking about
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  the next moment and the next thing, and the next day and all the
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  things that I have to do on my to do list. Meditation is just
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  a way to quiet your mind, and that is an active practice. You're
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  not just gonna wake up and say you're gonna meditate and do it perfectly the
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  first time. You're gonna have to keep practicing at this same thing with prayer.
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  Prayer is not just about asking, right, It's about thinking, It's
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  about acknowledging, it's about coming forward and breaking open your heart about the things
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  you've done that haven't been great, that you trespass against someone else. So
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  again it is a practice to learn how to do that. And journaling,
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  again, it's a great exercise to leave it all out there, to get
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  your vision out on paper, to talk about the things that you know you
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  need to work on so that you can become the best version of yourself,
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  so you can start to enrich the soil of your life. I will also
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  encourage you to read reading inspirational books, inspirational quotes. When you are cultivating
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  and enriching your life, all of your senses need to be fired up.
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  Seeing, you're hearing, you're reading, and sometimes you're listening to what are
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  you listening to? All of these parts and pieces are going to help you
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  create that vibrant garden, because what you're doing ultimately is you are developing,
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  cultivating a deeper connection with yourself and with your creator, with God. So
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  then my question to you would then be what activities are you engaging in that
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  help you, in fact, enrich the soil of your life. What are
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  the activities that you're doing And if you're not doing anything right now, you've
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  got to change that. You've got to change again. This is your foundation.
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  Whatever you build on this thing, it's going to stand and withstand based
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  on how it is set up. And again, you may have come in
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  on a faulty foundation. But now that you know it is your time to
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  make the changes. It is your time to bring in the right type of
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  soil so that you can enrich your life. So this is going to require
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  you to do a few things. You're going to have to prioritize doing this
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  to maintain and manage your garden of life. So here's one thing I would
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  recommend. You want to examine the plant before you buy it. You want
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  to examine what you're buying, what it needs, the kind of roots it
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  has. You need to know these things about what you're bringing in to your
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  garden. And so it is with your garden of life. If it's relationships,
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  if it's people, if it's community, you need to examine that carefully
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  before you bring it into your garden of life because that can change everything.
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  The people that you associate with can really change how you live, how you
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  see life, and all of the things. They have a significant influence on
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  you. So it's important to examine those relationships carefully, just like you would
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  examine a plant before you brought it home. In that same speech, I
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  want you to keep your eyes on the bugs. Gardens tend to have bugs,
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  and you need to understand what kind of bugs your garden is attracting based
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  on the plants that are there, the vegetation that is there, that type
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  of thing. You need to understand and keep your eye on bugs. And
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  in your garden of life, you need to understand the things that are coming
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  around you that are in fact bugs, those things or people that are distractions,
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  because if you let that go too long without acknowledging it and doing something
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  about it, do you know what those bugs are to do in the garden.
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  They start eating away at your plants, They start eating away at your
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  success, They start eating away at your progress, much like people will do
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  in life. So keep your eye on those bugs. I would say,
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  make time to clean up your garden. Make time to clean up your garden.
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  They're dead leaves, there are there's debris, things that have blown in,
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  flown in whatever that have come into your garden. That's crowding up your
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  space. And just like your garden, your garden of life has the same
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  thing. It's time to let go of some things. It's time to clean
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  up the space that you occupy because you're probably not seeing things seeing things as
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  clearly because there's so much around you. And for some of you, I
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  mean, it's difficult when you are trying to look ahead and move ahead,
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  and it's hard to do that when there's so much mess and debris and confusion
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  around you. So cleaning up is going to be a good exercise to do
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  in your garden. This one is important, and this one can sometimes hurt.
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  It feels like it's going to hurt, but it's actually going to help.
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  So in your garden, it's important to prune the damaged limbs and do
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  it at the right time. And here's why. If you don't do that,
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  that damage can spread and by the time you decide to start pruning,
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  you might have lost your whole plant. And I don't believe that's what you
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  want. So it's important to prune things that have been damaged. And in
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  your garden of life, there are relationships that you need to let go of.
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  They are no longer good for you. And when you really look back
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  on it, it's amazing how many things you have allowed in that relationship.
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  You did not contend it. You did not contest it, you did not
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  challenge it, You just allowed it. Some of those relationships busted your boundaries
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  and you did nothing about it. Well, I'm here to tell you it's
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  time to prune those damaged limbs and do it before it's too late. Sometimes
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  you keep people in your life, you keep situations happening in your life longer
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  than they need to, and by the time that situation ends, there's so
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  much collateral damage to you that you have to find time for repair. You
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  have to go find someone who is an expert gardener right to help you cultivate
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  that soil again. Because you've lost your way. You forgot what was important
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  to you. You forgot to put yourself on the priority list, or if
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  you did, you didn't put yourself at the top. That's why this piece
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  is really important, because you can lose yourself in this. This is pretty
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  critical piece of it. And the last thing I will say is to choose
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  where you plant. Where you place your plants appropriately. I talked about this
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  once before. I found this wonderful umbrella plant when I was going through Costco
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  one day. Beautiful plant reasonably priced, and I am determined to be like
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  my mother and one of my sisters who apparently has an amazing green thumb like
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  our mom does. And so I go through Costco and I get this great
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  plant call an umbrella plant. That's probably not the scientific name, but that's
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  the name for it. I bring it home. I'm in love with it,
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  and then I noticed it stopped growing like an umbrella. It was just
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  growing. It's beautiful and green. It still is beautiful and green, but
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  unfortunately it doesn't have that beautiful umbrella shape. Well, what I learned was
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  I wasn't placing it in the right part of my home, so it wasn't
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  getting the sunlight. And then I also wasn't watering this plant appropriately. I
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  didn't read the little informational car that tells you how you water it. This
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  kind of plant just requires it to be sprits. You just spray the plant.
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  It doesn't really require a lot of soil maintenance. I miss those steps.
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  So it's important not only to choose the plant, but know where the
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  plant needs to be to properly grow and nourish. And so you might be
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  in a space right now, speaking on your garden of life, where you're
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  not in the right space to grow. You're not in the right place to
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  be at your best potential. As I mentioned that plant that I have,
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  it's still beautiful, it's still green, it's still growing, but it doesn't
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  look like it should look. It's not giving the umbrella a fact that it
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  should be giving simply because of how I maintained it, how I manage it.
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  And so you've got to manage yourself differently in this season. You can't
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  be in the same spot and expect change. If you're gonna change, it's
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  going to probably require you to move, to go into new spaces, to
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  occupy new spaces so that you can get to your full and your highest and
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  your greatest and your best potential. So doing it from the place you are
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  at, I know it's comfortable, but in order to grow, you're gonna
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  have to get uncomfortable. One of my favorite quotes that I got from a
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  coach was if it doesn't challenge you, it's not going to change you.
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  And so if you're feeling challenge right now, change is coming. But you
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  can't stay in the same place not experience any challenge and expect things to change.
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  I want you to work on your garden this season. This is the
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  springtime. It is the perfect time to start working on your life garden,
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  to start making your garden vibrant again. I know you have a garden,
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  but bring that vibrancy back, bring back the beauty, the abundance, and
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  look for the endless possibilities of ways that you can make this garden unique to
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  who you are, who you're becoming. It's okay to set this space up
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  for you. You have done a lot to ensure that everybody else is good.
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  How about you take time to do that for yourself. How about you
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  take time cultivating your garden, committing yourself to enriching the soil of your life,
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  one plant, one flower, one blossom at a time. I hope
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  I also want you to check out the show notes. In the show
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  notes, we have the affirmation of the week, the quote of the week,
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  episode and do what you must in the next one hundred and sixty eight hours
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  so that you can become more of your enriched self until we meet again.