We worked like crazy people preparing the yard for our daughter's wedding. It looked amazing and was perfect for the event. But now, though it's grown and flourished, it looks uncared for, because my heart has left it.
My garden is not your normal size yard. It is approximately an 1.5 -2 acre peice. Just about the time one side gets done, another garden needs attention.
Life is like gardening . . . it not finished until your are. Constant work, pruning, hoeing, weeding, changing, tweeking, it's never finished. Motivation to work in the yard, is not unlike the motivation to change behaviors. One must move in the direction of the pain. Right now my garden is painful to look at.
Action steps need to be taken to change that, but until the pain of seeing my garden in such disarray is greater than the pain of weeding, it will remain a mess.
I recently subscribed to a nurition site call Precision Nutrition and the coach said something very profound for me. When asked, "How confident are you that you can do this "thing" I have asked you to do on a scale of 1-10" He says if the answer is anything less than a 9, reduce the request to a smaller action step and keep doing that until the answer to the question is a 9 or 10.
Today, I will prune the roses outside my patio door.
Gardening one day at at a time, just like recovery and life.
Happy planting . . ..
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