I am frugal. I am not cheap. I am frugal. One thing I love is flowers. Not cut flowers but more so ones that pop up in my yard each year. At the end of each season, I go to the discount table at my local hardware store. I look for the close to dead perennials that look like they should go into the trash rather than go into the ground. I can usually purchase them for about 10 cents. I have no idea what I am putting in my garden but the next year when its time for the plants to sprout again I have 2 results 1. I have wasted my 10 cents. 2. I am blessed with a beautiful flowering plant that makes me smile. I am willing to take that chance. I do not feel as if I am wasting money, because I could find a dime lying on the ground.
Have you ever thought of your actions as an investment toward your future? If you are kind, warm, forgiving and generous with your intentions you may not necessarily see the change in those around you immediately but do you not see that positive actions are going to bring the reaction that is more desirable?
You make many choices each day, always choose to do the act of kindness. Not because of what you will receive from it or because of how you will be perceived but just because it is the right thing to do.
Imagine that with each act of kindness you are planting seeds that will some day mature in to a beautiful garden, whereas if you are going around planting seeds of ill will and hatred your garden, the world around you, will have a much more dire appearance.
Try imagining every thing you do as if you are on a team, working well with others to accomplish a common goal of everyone being happy. Stop imagining life as a competition that you have to win, to be the best.
Be the light, be the love, be the joy.
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