STEEMIT VIRUS CONTEST #2 MY FAVOURITE QUOTE

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THE STEEMIT VIRUS CONTEST #2 BY @gbenga

Hello fellow steemians! It's a brand new week with favours. Now I'd love to ask, Do we allow people's thoughts to determine our next line of actions? Do you dream big then you tell people about your Aspirations in life and they criticize it? Making you believe your dreams are unattainable?
BELOW IS MY FAVORITE QUOTE AND I HOPE IT WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO YOU WHO DREAM BIG.

Your mind is a garden , your thoughts are the seeds, you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.Anonymous

The mind, as the 'brain' as it is mostly referred to because of it's ability to multitask with vast functions is like a playground of sorts to thoughts. Thoughts, as we know it, most times cannot be controlled or contained! you can't really control what you think about, but you can control HOW you think about things. This brings about the concept of the mind being a garden.

A garden is home to a lot of things, beautiful flowers, fruits, thorns, weeds and of course insects that help pollinate the flowers. The mind itself is this garden! In a garden, you get to decide what seeds to plant and what not to plant but you don't get to decide the weeds that grow, how ironic!

No one plants weeds in their gardens, but like it or not, weeds will definitely sprout out. What you can do is get rid of the weeds that grow and tend to your germinated seeds or flowers. In relation to how the mind works, same way you don't plant weeds (unwanted plants), that's how unwanted thoughts come into the human mind, you can either decide to focus on the weeds (unwanted thoughts, negative thoughts) or focus on the good seeds/flowers (fruitful and positive thoughts), whichever one you decide to focus on determines what you, as a person turns out to be, because you can't think like a slave and be a king in reality.

The beauty of our minds is, there are always two sides, whichever thoughts you decide to focus on and nurture, the other gradually tends to die off. That is, when you have both positive and negative thoughts and you focus on the negatives (weeds), the positives (flowers) begin to die off slowly as the weeds/negative thoughts feed off the flowers/positive thoughts in our minds

As the good book rightly pointed out 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he', you can't be better than your thoughts, your thoughts make you, you are a physical representation of your imaginary thoughts.

As a realist and lovers of nature, we all love to see a beautiful landscape with beautiful flowers carefully nurtured devoid of weeds, it's pleasing to the eyes and mind. That's the exact same picture we get when we tune our thoughts to focus on being good and doing good, the world becomes a better place for us. It's left for us to answer to ourselves: Are we cultivating weeds and letting them feed off the beautiful flowers in our minds? or are we going to focus on the flowers and make them blossom?

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