Creating a Better Life

Don’t Dig Up Your Bamboo Plant!

While listening to the Zig Ziglar “Inspiring Words of Encouragement” podcast the other day, I came across a story he told about the bamboo plant (listen to “The Power of Self Talk” dated 6/11/07).

Apparently, after it’s planted, a bamboo plant can take years to being to show any signs of growth above ground. It needs to be cared for and watered during these years, but no evidence of it’s growth witll become apparent for a long, long time.

But once it pokes itself above the ground… look out! It soon becomes one of the tallest and strongest plants in existence.

Human beings work in much the same way.

Unfortunately, when a person first learns about and accepts ideas like the Law of Attraction or Deliberate Creation, it seems to them that once they start thinking positively all good things will start to come to them.

But all that’s happened at this point is a seed has been planted.

And for some of us, that seed has been planted in a garden that’s a real mess!

I know it was for me.

And I also know that it may take years for that seed to fully take root before any real evidence begins to poke it’s head above ground.

Or it could be tomorrow.

Either way is OK. I’m not going anywhere, so there’s no reason to go digging up these beliefs that are serving me so well in my daily life just because I’m not seeing the full blown shoots that I’d like to.

Do you want to dig up your goals, your plans, and your dreams because you haven’t yet seen any evidence of their manifestation?

Or do you want to continue to water them, to feed them, to work on them below the surface?

I don’t care if you forgot to water them yesterday, or for a week, or even if it’s been years since you’ve given them any care.

Our dreams don’t die, no matter how long they’ve been neglected.

Start watering them again… now.

And then be patient.

Keep on taking care of them.

The outside evidence will come.

Just remember the bamboo plant when you start thinking that nothing’s going on.

Because there’s one thing I can guarantee:

If you are doing the watering, then your dreams are doing their growing.

Playing with the Blog

I’m working on updating the blog and it’s theme… stuff may not work quite right for a bit…

Listen to this fantastic podcast from Shards of Consciousness while you wait… I’ll be writing about some of it in my next post an upcoming post.