Grow Yourself a Life - Plant Seeds

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By Jerrico Usher

Cultivate wealth, Success, Love, and even a Social life with Seeding Technology

Planting seeds is a metaphor for putting yourself out there and stimulating your world
Planting seeds is a metaphor for putting yourself out there and stimulating your world

Somebody planted seeds
Somebody planted seeds
Somebody else didnt plant seeds!
Somebody else didnt plant seeds!
This is what a well seeded life will feel like..
This is what a well seeded life will feel like..

Introduction

Why Plant Seeds?

Why not? The thing is some people have great front lawns, full of beautiful plush green grass, gorgeous flowers and shrubs meticulously trimmed, sometimes into intriguing shapes. People come from/for miles around to see some of these amazing yards.

Others have dead lawns with weeds growing, patchy yellow grass, and ugly dirt mostly. Not only does nobody come even from next door to see it but it is an eyesore and upsets your neighbors to the point of thinking your a slob and a loser.

Life is the same way. It's not hard to plant seeds in your life, no more than it is to plant seeds in your front lawn along with fertilizer and plants for a beautiful lawn. But planting seeds in your life is even easier than that and it will get people from all over the world to want to talk to you, and to offer you valuable things like information on a job you want, love you need, or money you desire!

Planting seeds in your life is the fastest way to do anything too. Although nothing comes to you automatically, you have to go get what you want in life or stagnate in your filth of excuses of why your life sucks, the truth is their is a way to get things to come to you, happen to you almost as if by some magical force of luck. That way is Seeding. Planting seeds is a verb, its an action and a proactivity, but its the easiest way to expend the smallest effort for the biggest impact.

Planting seeds will yield back trees, flowers, and incredibly valuable happenstances in your life. Plant a seed today and it could yield something today, but most likely it will yield a happenstance days, weeks or years from now when you need it most and least expect it.

Plant seeds every day and your future is set.. By your own "admission" since you got the wheels churning (not turning churning because seeds are like worker bees that invest in your future).

We actually plant seeds every day and often don't realize that's what we're doing. When you want a job you plant the job application seed. When you like someone you plant the conversational seed. When you write a hub or blog you plant the "understanding" seed which magnetizes like minds to comment and reciprocate knowledge. These are the more understood seeds, but I'm going to let you in on a seed that most don't use or realize is so powerful.

We live in a magical age for seed planting because thanks to the permanent retention of the internet planting a seed today such as a blog or hub article for example can yeild continued growth into a large tree with many branches of opportunities from millions of locations at once of potential..

In this article/hub I will show you the importance of "planting seeds" every day and how truly easy it can be. I will show you tricks to use to bring wealth, happiness, love, fortune, and anything else you could ever desire, just by taking a few moments a day to plant seeds.

I will also explain what seeds are exactly, give you amazingly simple tricks for doing it that yield powerful results. I will show you that this if done correctly can drastically improve the Quality of your life. It is so easy and intuitive in fact that you will quickly do it out of habit and you will find out that you always held all the cards to the winning game of life.. You just didn't play them!

Life is what you make it.

Painting by Louie Petterson
Painting by Louie Petterson


Why plant seeds?

Life is a lot like a great garden. If you don't plant seeds you are not going to get anything but dirt. Worms will slither through your life and consume your "minerals" leaving you whatever is left.. I hope I didn't lose you in the metaphores there..

Don't live passively, live proactively. You don't have to be outgoing to do this either. You do this with planting seeds and life will come to you, stimulating you, but you have to plant those seeds to assure you get the ball rolling!

Planting seeds is the only way to assure your life continues to grow new fruit, and it also assures you that your life grows the environment you currently want, not weeds that you don't. Your environment is the result of what you've put out there, what you've done and how you've reacted to the world. You are fully in control of your life, unless you stop planting seeds. Planting seeds can be as simple as choosing to do things different, or as complex as going out and meeting people, starting a company, or networking a group of people.

Every day I plant seeds. No matter what my goals are, or if I don't think I want anything I sit down and decide what I could have in my life that would make it better, more fulfilled. We never reach that zenith to where we have everything we want. As we get what we want we find new things to want.


Money is just one way to seed!

Many poor people think once they have a gazillion dollars they will be able to get everything just by buying it. Although money does provide a lucrative resource it can't buy everything you want. It can however be used to plant seeds! You don't need money to plant seeds but most people don't realize any other way to do it.

You do it when you don't realize your doing it but this is not efficient, because you can plant good seeds and bad seeds. If you're rude to someone you plant a bad seed that may later sprout revenge from them, or they may not help you when you need them, or they could proactively cause you problems.

You never know how your actions on someone will cause them to react to you. You may be rude to someone in traffic only to find out this is the very person interviewing you for the job you're late to and were rude to them because they were in your way or moving too slowly!

Seeding can become a habit that improves the quality of your life substantially!

When you're in the habit of planting seeds all the time you start to become acutely aware of how those seeds sprout into opportunities. You also become aware of how everything you do causes some reaction. You're less likely to be rude to someone because you realize this is a bad seed, a weed that could kill your oak tree later by choking the roots!

Many people don't realize their planting a potentially harmful seed when they let someone take a picture of them, or record a movie of them drunk or otherwise. Then when their on YouTube they realize they planted a bad seed.


Meetup.com is not a dating site its an offline meetup social circle site
Meetup.com is not a dating site its an offline meetup social circle site

Love Seeds and Meetup.com

If you want love in your life but are too shy to go out and meet people, you can use the internet to plant seeds. One way is to join a group like meetup.com and hook up with some social groups. Don't go in looking for a date, but plant the seeds of joining the group and go out to meet people.

You could actually meet some nice people this way. If you go out looking for a date you may push a would be date away because you put out a desperate and focused vibe. By planting the seed, joining the group, you get out and you naturally meet someone nice. What this does is gives you a reason to get out of the house to meet people, which may be why your having a hard time dating. Learning to socialize again will put you in the position to meet someone.

Dating occurs naturally the more people you go out and meet. Make it a point to go to several meet ups scheduled. If you join enough you could find a full calendar of events to go to. You are not forced to go to every one, but you can check every day and find great events planned you can attend.

You're automatically invited to attend just by being in that group! You may find that you wanted to date so badly because you were simply lonely but may not be ready for a relationship. By socializing you find that your fine just going out and being around people, then when you do meet someone your more likely to date them for real reasons not artificial ones like you feel lonely.


Social Seeding

Planting this kind of sees does a few things for your life. You will always know that you have somewhere to go if you choose. You may have no clue how to go out and socialize or where to go to do so, and most people don't want to go out alone when they don't know anyone. With these social groups you're in their click, even the first meet will be easy because their expecting you and you don't have to try to meet people, they will want to meet YOU!

It's a great way to meet new friends especially if you have social anxiety disorder. For most people they just need to interact with people for a few months then they find they open up more easily to meeting people. This instant social grouping I call it (meetup's site or any site like it) is like a safe environment. People welcome you in and you have a great time!

You can meet several groups and pick and choose people to hang out with exclusively. Many use this type of situation to meet friends and generate their own social circle. It's as easy as going to church or school, work or wherever else you're used to meeting people in a non bar like climate. Personally I hate bars, and I find it hard to just go meet people, but this is a great way to go.

These meets are amazing too because you have groups of hundreds of people who contribute ideas of meet up spots to go to and they do all the work to find the most interesting places in town to go to! This seed sprouts beautiful social flowers and fruitful fun! Their are hiking meets, camping meets, social mixer meets, I even found a cuddling meet *Smiles*!


My hubpages account.. click to enlarge pictures

Writing hub pages can make you alittle money but it plants seeds for better offers!
Writing hub pages can make you alittle money but it plants seeds for better offers!
Fans can become valuable resources and could lead you to resources.. fans are the result of this seed too!
Fans can become valuable resources and could lead you to resources.. fans are the result of this seed too!

Hub Pages Seeding

Other ways to plant seeds is to forge new relationships by networking. Going out and writing a blog is one way. If your blogs/seeds intrigue people you may find people seeking you out (the fruit)! One brilliant way to network is using hubpages.com as a seed planting method.

You write a hub about things you're interested in like say "Making money online". You, over time build up a following of fans and you can go out and befriend people too becoming their fan (planting seeds again!) whom usually will join your fan club.

You can go into forums and get to know people or you can email those hub authors you like. When you write hubs on your passion others will comment and often you can start a friendship if you get into an exchange of information. These people can become valuable resources for finding others who are also passionate about what you do.

Back to the dating thing, on myspace you can find actually a lot of decent people... The stigma of how myspace was a place to meet weirdoes is going away as its becoming the world's most popular social networking site. You can go out and look for people like you and befriend them, talking to them in emails, bulletins and so forth.

Many people on myspace and other social networks actually build meet up groups, and online social groups whereby they trade valuable insights and information. Whole companies have been formed this way, starting online then sprouting offline.

Many people have been offered jobs just by what they've written on a blog site, hub site, or even artwork they've made. Writing a hub can be a great way to put your skill sets out there! Someone may want a site built and may ask you to do it for them because their impressed with your skills.


Planting seeds is easy and can be a lot of fun.

It's a form of socializing really! Its like "working a room" only you're "working your life", writing your script and generating stimulations/seeds that make life happen to you. It's a rubber ball that bounces back to you by stimulating others to come to you. Others do the same and get you to come to them.

Planting seeds is nothing more than spending a few moments a day to start something. The seeds are just stimulations in your world. Going out to get coffee can be a great way to plant seeds with people whom work at your coffee shop.

If you go out to the same Starbucks every day you build a rapport with people whom work their and you'd be surprised how much you can learn from people just getting your morning cup of Joe! You may run into them at the grocery store or an event and because you planted the seed of talking to them when you get your coffee, building some rapport you now have a friend, and valuable resource of information..

An event you attended alone which felt uncomfortable is now eased with this person's presence. What if you just said hi, and by getting your coffee, planting no seed? This person would be nothing more than another person at this event that you may have recognized.


Planting Forums Seeds

Writing forum posts can be an amazing way to network and plant seeds. Writing a forum post on most sites (not this one though as noted below) is a permanent fixture and when you write about your passions, opinions and so forth (in many ways your hub becomes like a forum as it has a way for your page visitors to communicate to you and others who read it, some hubs become threads of forum conversations surrounding your hubs topic this is the power of web 2.0 in action) so people could read your post/hub/blog years after you "plant the seed" online and you could find yourself making a valuable friend and interesting connection.

Everything you do is planting a seed. Saying thank you to someone for doing something for you plants a seed and they appreciate it, they may later do something for you because they were grateful you were grateful for what they did before for you.


Not Planting seeds forces you to stagnate

If you stagnate and don't plant seeds you will not enjoy the fruits later. Planting seeds often doesn't do much at the time but it does grow and become a tree of benefits to you later.

You may not realize it but if no one planted seeds you'd find no great information on the web, all seeds, you would not meet anyone new, and life as you know it would suck. Planting seeds in this new information age is more powerful than ever and allows you to truly take control of your life by forming your environment, and inviting things you want to happen to you as if by magic!

Planting Seeds on Myspace and other social networks is fun, easy and powerful

I used to go out on myspace and add people to my friends list that I thought would be potential dates, and most of them became friends (not dates) that connected me to information and people I'd of never knew about without them. When they added me and I could see their page I learned a lot about things through links and other things on their page.

Some seeds sprout grandiose trees that give you a life time of fruitation, others don't grow at all, some grow for a while and offer you value in the form of friendships that are short lived but valuable while they last, others don't even sprout at all.


Planting seeds is another form of wishing, or asking the universe for something In fact this is the fastest way to get an answer to your prayers!

Planting seeds is not about goals so much that you want to achieve, it's more about putting your request out to the universe at large and the universe sends people, situations and resources to you from it. It is powerful to ask the universe for things, but this takes that power a step further by putting it physically out there and offering the universe a very easy and real way to help you achieve the things you want.

I ask the universe for what I need, but I don't just wait for an answer in the form of resources. The universe doesn't just give you anything. It will give you the tools to go get it yourself every time, you have to act on those resources. When I ask for something I then take the time to meditate on what exactly I want and what it would take to have it, I then use this information to plant seeds. I may write a hub/article on it, or go out looking for people I know could lead me to it. The point is I take actions to help the universe bring me the resources and this makes it come faster!

Party at my home for 4th of july 08: Volley pool game (no net)

Invite people over for a pool party is a great way to get to know them!
Invite people over for a pool party is a great way to get to know them!

Planting seeds is only a first step.. You then need to nourish those seeds so they grow faster.

You also have to realize planting seeds is a great start but watering those seeds makes all the difference. I've planted seeds I never watered (metaphorically speaking of course) and they grew into amazing things, but others I had to water to get to grow. You water them by acting on them.

For example if you go out and plant "add me" seeds on myspace to forge some friendships or potential dates and they add you to their friends list and you to theirs, you will want to shoot them an email to jump start conversations. It really does little good to add a bunch of people whom may like your profile so they add you but if you don't talk to them they just become people on your friends list.

Although sometimes you'll put out a bulletin that is of great interest to them and all of a sudden that seed sprouts a root as they contact you for more information or to relate.. But it's better to only add people you intend to talk to.

If I add someone and I try to talk to them but they don't return emails, or rarely talk to me.. and nothing jumps off, friendship or otherwise

(I have many friends I just know online and have forged more powerful friends I've never met than those I've met in some cases; these people change my life in many great ways so it doesn't matter if you never meet them in person)

If nothing jumps off and the seed goes dead I remove them from my myspace account because what good is it to have them there if after several months to a year we never talk.

It's like having that sweater in your closet you keep only because you "may" one day wear it but after three years not one thing has come up that made you decide to wear it. I have a lot of clothes like this and they just take up space.

The beauty of myspace seeding is that many people will not directly email you but they do communicate in bulletins of valuable links, great videos and more.

People don't have to directly communicate with you to be valuable

I have a few people on my friends list that I never talk to but they are of great value to me because they write blogs that just blow me away, they link to sites that change how I do something, they bring me inspiration. I always attempt to talk to them and they will email me back, but these are more like distant friends I network with because they have something to say that I enjoy and use.


Frequency of seeding is important

If you plant seeds all the time, any chance you get, you will find that you don't have to water them all, but they will offer you all sorts of opportunities and when you see one you like take it by watering it. Contact that person; send an email or a yahoo message and so on. Truth is on myspace and such sending a bulletin is like watering them all!

Keeps the garden growing fruit. Keep Seeding out, and figure 80% of your seeds will sprout others won't but that's ok. This is why you seed out every day to keep the numbers in your favor. This way you get at least some stimulation back and don't worry about everyone responding. It's not about that, its about putting the word out and getting reactions.

You may have had an impact on them that you don't realize so seeding is not just a one way thing. I post a lot on myspace bulletins and blogs because I know some of those people I don't talk to but are valuable do read my stuff.

They only respond if they were affected which is nice. I make an effort to email everyone on my myspace friends list at least once a month. I maintain a moderated friends list so there are no "dead ends" in their. This keeps my friends list valuable and not just taking up space and when I write the email I actually can talk to them personally not like whom are you again?


An Example of Seeding in Action. From seed to fruitation.

Copywriter Seed

To give you an example of how seed planting has brought me what I've always wanted let me tell you a quick story. I had a dream to become a copywriter.

Two years ago I decided I wanted to get paid to write. I had absolutely no clue how to go about that. I had ideas like magazine writers, writing a book, and other things like that could work but I didn't know how to arrive at my dream goal of where I am now.

I planted seeds by going online and studying, then writing blogs about what I learned to help others. My blogs helped others see things and many showed me sites to read to learn more, and to escalate what I knew. My seeds prompted them to leave me a seed in exchange!

As I started to write blogs for fun, and education I became a writer, not a paid writer but I knew eventually the universe would take care of that. I just had to put myself out there. I found HubPages and started to write hubs for pennies a month (I'm up to a whopping 71.01 in adsense revenue now after almost a year, well 7 months) but my writing on HubPages made me a better writer.

Now that I was making money writing hubs.. How much was of no consequence, just the fact that I planted the adsense seed and the hub-seed was enough. Later a friend of mine in New York turned me onto a backlink generation company that was hiring writers to write blogs and articles for websites and backlinks respectively, and here I am now after 2 years the seeds I've planted along the way have sprouted into my current career.

I make 2,000.00+ a month doing what I love working 100% out of my home. I'm making more money than I did busting my rump at a thankless job and my income is based on how much I can write. I have potential to make up to 5,000 dollars in my current employment . I can make more but I can't humanly possibly write more than 5,000 blogs a month!!!


Think of every branch on this tree as a seed you planted.. Collectively even small successes are synergistic of great accomplishments!
Think of every branch on this tree as a seed you planted.. Collectively even small successes are synergistic of great accomplishments!
In this picture money is not money, its a means to an end, seeds generate means you can use to reach a goal
In this picture money is not money, its a means to an end, seeds generate means you can use to reach a goal

A tree build from a "seed" branches out and becomes much more valuable

Finally its MY Limitations limiting my income not the job or boss!!!). But it's not over yet. I found out my boss knows a lot about other ways to make money using my writing as well such as writing my own adsense pages and driving traffic to it using backlinks and Google, that will generate even more money.

I'm planting seeds all the time now by joining lists that put out great information on what I need to learn. Sure they will send out a bunch of emails about purchasing something but their is still valuable insight in each email, and often what their selling is what I need as well!

The seeds I planted by joining their lists keeps me thinking about what I need. The constant emails for the list making programs, and the constant offers for blogging, all keep my mind affirmating (actively seeing affirmations (is that a word?)) the key terms until I feel compelled to continue down the path to my new liberating career.

I will always do what I'm doing now but this additional income opportunity will help me find financial freedom. If you continue to plant seeds in areas that you know will push you towards your dreams you will continue to get insight, and growth.

I learned psychology using "Seeding" "Technology"!

Joining a forum you can get posts emailed to you as they come in, this is a great way to keep in the flow of information on your passion. If you lose the passion for it you unsubscribe and subscribe to new things.

To learn psychology for example at first I just joined 100 psychology forums and got all the information I could need in my email. I didn't have to go out and seek this data it came to me. I picked and chose what I wanted to read and discarded the rest. I got a wealth of information in my box. The beauty of this was I often got stimulated with new information and I now had "fruit" from my seeds of what to look for next.

You can do this powerful trick with anything you want to learn. If you want to learn how to make money online go to yahoo forums or any other, and do a search for keywords "make money online" then click in and read what each forum is about.. Join as many as you want, the more the better, and you will start to receive lots of information about making money online.

Forum Posts are often moderated to keep commercial posts out

I'm not talking commercial stuff either as most forums don't allow soliciting in their forums and are moderated to remove posts like this, the exception is if your post is valuable enough to give information as well as very little self promotion on your product. People are their for information not commercials.

So you're essentially getting pure information into your box every day on this realm, and many people offer tips on where to look to learn more without spending money on courses. I found lots of valuable free resources through forum posts I read on psychology! This one seed(s) generates jumping off points into your box. Information comes to you unsolicited but invited; joining a forum is like opting into a non commercial information ezine!

Learning that body language was the key to effective communication helped me in my psychology studies

An example of taking good tips and information from posts I read and using it as a jumping off point towards my goal

I learned long ago in one post that body language was 80% of our in person communication not what we say, and body language cancels out what we say if the two contradict! From this information I knew I wanted to learn body language.. And so on.. It keeps going because I keep planting seeds. If your life gets boring and mundane it just means you have no seeds planted and stimulating you with fruit!


I love the tag line on this "Not from concentrate" because when you get emailed forum posts with fresh inforamtion you don't have to "concentrate" to get this data it comes to you from others minds!
I love the tag line on this "Not from concentrate" because when you get emailed forum posts with fresh inforamtion you don't have to "concentrate" to get this data it comes to you from others minds!
Planting seeds to get information pumped into your email box helps you find directions you didnt even think about!
Planting seeds to get information pumped into your email box helps you find directions you didnt even think about!

Plant Seeds for any kind of information, especially fresh ongoing ideas!

Great example for people wanting the romance in their relationship to return

One great way to use this technology is in relationships. I hear women complaining their men aren't romantic enough, they are becoming boring and have no clue. The men are lost because they don't know how to be romantic, and are not sure where to find ideas.

You can actually join forums on romance, on romantic ideas, on communications and so forth. Get yourself connected to about 100 of those types of forums and your box will flood with fresh ideas every day you can try!

You can even interact and ask the mailing list usually of 1,000 or more people in those groups for ideas. You tell them what you need, how your wife is (i.e. what she likes) and they will often tell you some amazing ideas that are easy to do but you just didn't think of it. Your wife/girlfriend will love you for it! Seeding is amazing and it can solve any problem!

Getting information this way is brilliant because it allows the other people to think for you. They post when they feel inspired or know something they'd like to share. If your getting romantic ideas posts you know they are going to share ideas, or expeirences they did that worked.. no thinking needed, just reading/researching what they put in the post! You can consolidate the good ideas and generate a database for when you need it!


In conclusion

Remember if you don't put yourself out there nothing will happen, if you do you are taking control of your life and causing reactions from the world based on what you want and need.

Your hubs are not taken for granted. Just because many people read them and don't comment it doesn't mean they didn't enjoy it and get something from it they could use.

If you plant that hub seed and someone does get something from it, realize good karma will come to you for helping them. Seeds are planted every time you proactively do something. This is anything from saying thank you, to asking someone out, to writing a hub, or joining a forum. There are millions of ways to plant seeds; practice will yield ways that are comfortable to you. What's important is that you make your mark on the world each and every day! Planting seeds is a powerful way to generate yourself the perfect life. Plant seeds then react to things that come to you. Makes life much more managable!

Thank you for reading my hub, Have a wonderful day.. Now go plant some seeds!!!

Jerrico

So get your morning fix, then get to planting seeds!
So get your morning fix, then get to planting seeds!

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Wbisbill profile image

Wbisbill  says:
18 months ago

Thumbs up. Great hub. I have no green thumb but I like to plant happiness!

Grace and Peace.

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summer10  says:
17 months ago

Excellent Hub~ Superbly detailed and ripe for bookmarking.

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Jerrico Usher  says:
17 months ago

Thank you I appreciate it!

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Guru-C  says:
17 months ago

Wow! Great hub! I like your planting seeds metaphor and think you're sharing excellent advice. I like your visuals, too.

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Jerrico Usher  says:
17 months ago

Why thank you! I do try :) I love that I can use alot of my artistic skill sets on hubpages :)

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Jewels  says:
17 months ago

Inspiring hub, best I get moving then.

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Rob Jundt  says:
17 months ago

Outstanding hub. They say in the business world it's not what, but who you know. This is called networking. I love your take on the network thing because by planting seeds wherever possible, you're creating potential networks. I too would love to write for a living. I do have a background in entreprenuership and business management. All that's fine, but my real passion is making something out of nothing on a continual basis. I value your opinion here. How difficult is it to find satisfying internet copywriting work? I have the skills. I'm just looking for the nudge over the edge. Good luck on your day(s).

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Jerrico Usher  says:
17 months ago

If you find the right gig, its incredibly satisfying. I earn 3 grand a month sometimes, but generally I've been doing from 1500 to 2500 working completely at home writing blogs and articles that were outsourced from the company I work for. The trick is to not give up the search.. I never did and now I'm in eureka!

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starcatchinfo  says:
17 months ago

HI USHER,

THE PLANTING A SEED HUB IS A VERY SENSIBLE AND PRACTICLE TIPS IN OUR LIFE ALSO.

moss  says:
2 months ago

This is good

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dreamer32  says:
2 months ago

This is an outstanding hub! While reading this, this makes me think of the principles of sowing and reaping. Even for people who are unemployed, they can always do something to be a blessing to other people. What you say here, this is one of my favorite subjects to talk about! Plant seeds because rather if it is good or bad!There is always a period of reaping that will happen in a person's life. Most people don't understand why certain things happen in their life. It's mostly by their sowing seeds whatever it is! Most people get mad at most of the things that happen in their lives, which they have planted and sowed seeds previously. Sometimes, I examine what seeds that I am planting that caused it to come back in my life. This is a very important principle. Do unto others as others would do unto you. I love this article! Thanks for writing it!

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