Planting a seed

Hi,

I've been a bit slack with blogging for the last week but I'm back.  A quick update of my progress.  So I've had some really great days and some really not-so-great days.  I am still struggling with negative thoughts and find my mind starting down a path that leads me away from my goals and dreams.  Excuses start to pop up and I find myself eating my emotions as a way of dealing with them.  Unlike the past though, I keep dragging myself away from these thoughts and back onto the right path that leads to where I want to be. I've been struggling with the exercise so decided to commit to a bootcamp.  It is totally out of my comfort zone but I'm strangely enjoying it :)  I'm doing 3 mornings a week and each morning is a different sport, kayaking, mountain biking and running.  It is designed to get you ready for an Adventurethon which I'm slowly starting to think I might be able to do. I'll keep you posted on that one.

I've been reading a book by Louise Hay 'You Can Heal Your Life' and I read something today which gave me a bit of a 'light bulb' moment and wanted to share it here.

Planting Seeds (extract from book)

Think for a moment of a tomato plant.  A healthy plant can have over a hundred tomatoes on it.  In order to get this tomato plant with all these tomatoes on it, we need to start with a small dried seed. That seed doesn't look like a tomato plant. It sure doesn't taste like a tomato plant.  If you didn't know for sure, you wouldn't even believe it could be a tomato plant.  However, let's say you plant this seed in fertile soil, and you water it and let the sun shine on it.

When the first little tiny shoot comes up, you don't stomp on it and say, "That's not a tomato plant." Rather, you look at it and say, "Oh boy! Here it comes," and you watch it grow with delight.  In time, if you continue to water it and give it lots of sunshine and pull away any weeds, you might have a tomato plant with more than a hundred luscious tomatoes.  It all began with that one tiny seed.

Wow... this really is what Mish's 12WBT is all about.  If I look at it as the 12WBT being the seed.  My mind being the fertile soil (by getting myself ready by doing the preseason tasks), the water and sunshine are equal to eating well and exercising.  At first you might not get the results you wanted, or the results might not come fast enough but by being patient and pulling away weeds (negative thoughts and destructive behaviour) by doing Mish's mindset lessons weekly and being consistent with watering and sunshine (exercising and eating clean) results will come and you will reap the rewards (and I don't mean tomatoes!!) and they will be amazing (as so many sucessful 12wbters have proven).  I probably haven't explained myself very well but I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying.

All the best till next time,
Kaz :)