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Daily Dose #41

Want to know the best way to tend your mind garden? Add some Miracle Grow. 

And by that I mean create and establish positive affirmations.

This simple practice guarantees growth, because affirmations are intentional thought seeds you plant when you want specific fruit in your life. 

But to affirm something to yourself is not a one and done type thing. 

Repetition is key. 

At first you may not even believe the words you speak. But that’s ok. Remember you are simply planting thought seeds in your mind garden. The seeds will take root and grow. They want to grow.

Here are few examples (but go crazy and make up your own):

• I am blessed beyond measure
• Everything I touch turns to gold
• I am always in the right place at the right time
• By Day and By Night I am being prospered in all my interests
  (Affirmation by Dr. Joseph Murphy)
• I find favor with all those I meet

By repeating affirmations over and over again, you are watering these thought seeds– coaxing and calling those things that are not, into reality. 

I think it is easy to be fooled into thinking that great things just “happen” to successful people. 

It’s also easy to look at their current success and think that somehow they got lucky, fell into something, or were ‘born with it’. 

But this just isn’t true. 

Thinking this way exhibits a failure to acknowledge the fundamental truth of slow, organic growth. The way God / Life / Nature intends.

Successful people develop and cultivate a positive mindset long before they ever experience the fruit of success. 

If you are already doing this and want to share yours with me please feel free to do so. I’m always looking for new, delicious, Life-bearing seeds to plant in my mind garden!