Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life. I'm your host Kory Miskara and in today's episode I'm going to share some thoughts on developing patience as we plant the seeds for the life we're trying to create. More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bells. So I'd like to share a quote with you to begin by Tipton Children.

It says, when you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet.

You simply water them and clear away the weeds.

You know that the seeds will grow in time.

Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate mindfulness,

abandon impatience, and instead be content creating the causes for goodness, the results will come when

they're ready.

There's something about this philosophy that I find liberating.

I don't know about you, but I know my tendency tends to be to try to make something grow faster than it can.

And while I do believe certain things can be accelerated,

there are a lot of things in life that just need space to develop, to grow,

and all we can do is offer them care. Light, water, fertilizer, good soil.

And I think the thing that's liberating to me about this idea

is that I'm almost forced to step back and just allow things to unfold as they will.

I do my best.

I show up.

I plant the seeds I'm trying to plant in my life

cultivating gratitude

kindness, presence or even a work project

and you know showing up for an hour and doing the work that I need to do

and then just trusting the process from there. There's something to me that's freeing about letting go of the outcome and just

focusing on the things that I can influence just focusing on taking care of the task, the moment at hand.

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