Stephen R Covey often shared a story at conferences about teaching his son “Clean and Green”, as it was a good metaphor for teaching delegation, co-operation and leadership. It also was very effective at getting his leadership principals across. People got it.

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In a nutshell; the cliff notes version is tell someone the objective you want,
in Mr Covey’s case, his back yard was a mess under his own stewardship. He could not prioritize it’s care with his demanding schedule, and his objective for his yard was “clean and green”, just like his neighbors yard.
He made an agreement with his eight year old son, to give “stewardship” of the yard to him, and hold him accountable in a very fair, transparent and loving way.
If you google the audio, it’s very humorous yet very profound, the way the boy was persuaded into the father/son backyard clean up and maintenance deal agreement.
It’s a great metaphor for being mindful and disciplined in “gardening our minds”
We are the gardeners of our minds; we must pull out the weeds, the bad thoughts,
that get rooted by negative memes. This allows space for our good thoughts; our intentions, our life value principals, our abundant thoughts and filters of reality.
We create our own reality, being it positive or negative, prosperous or impoverished, abundant or scarcity based, holy or indifferent.
The green and clean metaphor would be an abundant mind; a clean wholesome, robust mind full of rich ideas!
It’s our priviledge and right to do so, as no other creatures on earth can do this, and we’re reaching and expanding our potential when we do so.
We can intend perfect health and never reach it. Yet we become stronger, healthier, more prosperous as our consciousness expands.
Ideas are centers of consciousness, what’s at the core of your mind and beliefs?
Are you challenging yourself everyday with new thoughts, new ideas, new belief systems that work well for you?
How are you doing with the gardening of your mind?
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