Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 13: Plant the Seeds for Positive Change
Spring brings new life into the world. On our 13th day of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge, we’ll plant seeds of optimism.
Making the world a better place than you found it involves makes small but meaningful acts. In fact, some of the plans you set into motion may not even be realized by you. It takes time, and it can also take many people, to initiate positive change.
The important thing is to take the initiative and get something going.
This is the time of year that we tend the soil and plant the seeds that will bear tomorrow’s nourishing food. When you plant a garden, you get to benefit from your hard work by enjoying the fruits and vegetables of your labor. But also remember that gardening begins with one and benefits many. They call it PRODUCE for a reason.
A single fruit or flower bears hundreds of seeds. So each time you put just one seed into the ground that becomes a thriving plant, you’re also planting the seeds for potentially many more plants over the coming years.
Today, ask yourself what positive actions you’d like to take to help make a difference in the world around you. One small gesture can have far-reaching ripple effects. Just like that garden seed, generations from now, the effort you made might still be affecting lives to come.
- What good things do you want to see happen in the world?
- Do you wish for everyone to have nourishing food in their bellies?
- Or do you long for more kindness and understanding between people?
- Do you hope that animals can know better living conditions and care?
- Do you wish for better caregiving for the old, the infirm, and those people of any age who have special needs?
Journal Exercise: What Seeds of Change Will You Plant?
For today’s journaling exercise, write down the following:
- Five small gestures you can offer your fellow humans that will make a positive effect on their day today.
- Two bigger ideas for solving the world’s problems, to help make life on our planet a better place.
Set Your Intention
Now that you’ve journaled through the planting of your positive seeds, how can you make sure that you will reap what you sow?
Set a realistic, tangible and timely goal around a positive change that you can make in your own life. It could be with your family, child’s school, work, or your community.
What will you do? Commit to one small act.
Loving Life — The Reboot!
Dominique
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Kuntala
I love that you used seeds as the comparison here. Just like seeds, our new habits and outlooks take time to grow and produce fruit, but if we take care of them, we’ll see great things.
CA
Love the metaphor of planting seeds of positivity that you’d like to grow in your life moving forward. Very inspirational.
Ivan M. Jose
I love the idea of spring cleaning for the soul. We all need to unload all the negative emotions in order to attain peace. I also like the idea of planting seeds because it just means that we have to nurture it to grow.
Rosey
Committing to one single act can make a big difference if so many do it. I’m all for positive change.
Eileen M Loya
I think the seeds of change I would want to “plant” is to have more patience. It is difficult to be calm and cool when there is uncertainty especially during a pandemic. I will try my best to change this. Thanks for the journal prompt.
Patricia Chamberlain
I love this idea! Setting intensions and goals is such an important process!
Anosa+Malanga
Just like seeds, we can start small, helping with our own little ways is a good start. Thanks for the questionnaire. It helps me meditate about how my month was.
Nish
I love how you compare this process to growing a plant. You have given me lots to think about regarding how I want to grow and change for the better.
Emman+Damian
I love this idea of spring cleaning. It gives us some avenue to release negative things in our life. It’s time for a fresh and clean slate.