Personal Meditation no. 182

"I am only the choices I make. My past, my present, and my future depend on what character I choose to embrace and what narrative I choose to tell."

Embrace the Within.

Back to a regular routine today and working out and writing. Really accomplished a lot yesterday including planting all the garden boxes, moving around plants in the greenhouses, and choosing another group of eggs to allow to hatch in a month. So, today looks like a good day to go chick shopping and locate some more brahmas. That appears to be the one fun chore for the day on the horizon.

So, I embraced the suck of coming home to a lot of my flock missing and I get to move forward. When you raise good food there will always be something or someone looking to eat it. And that’s just the way things go. No need to think more deeply about it than that. I just have to make some changes and improve my methods. And I do that with perspective of where I was three years ago today and where I am currently. I can’t even fathom what I was trying and where I was back then. Not when I look at where that journey has led me today.

And I think that is a valuable lesson about your journey. You can make all the plans you want in life BUT you never truly know where those plans are going to take you. Three years ago there was no way I was going to have a rooster let alone two. Three years ago I was operating out of one raised bed. Three years ago I didn’t own a greenhouse or have any plans for continual crops. Three years ago I didn’t have a fence to keep out the things that wanted to eat my crops. Three years ago I failed a lot. BUT without the lessons over those three years, I wouldn’t be where I am three years later. There is a lot of value in making mistakes, changing your plan, and moving forward. Sometimes those lessons are uplifting and bring you joy while sometimes those lessons suck and bring you sorrow. No matter how the lessons make me feel, I get to choose to learn from those lessons and move forward. I get the opportunity to do things better even when things are already going well.

So, today I will try to add some more chicks to my flock. Today I am going to plant some more seeds and transplant some things already growing into new pots. And today I am going to keep moving forward with the plantation. I can’t wait to see what is growing in the greenhouse today and what continues to grow in the weeks to come. I can already see some spinach breaking out of the grown in one of my garden boxes and more things are in the future.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin