02/07/2026
RISE Beyond [ SEEDTIME ]
"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad redsults; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles." —As A Man Thinketh
Did you know that our minds are most impressionable immediately upon rising in the morning and just before falling asleep at night?
It's true. And what do most people expose their minds to first thing in the morning and last thing at night? Call it entertainment, call it news, call it doom scrolling. But for most people, you may as well call it spoiled seed.
Fresh from consuming and thinking about the day's murders, indictments, crime, fraud, corruption, divisive politics, gossip, and all manner of "news", it shouldn't come as a surprise that by sowing these thoughts you will surely reap a negative, suspicious, or adversarial feelings toward drivers in traffic, coworkers, or even your own family and friends.
Give up those negative, unhealthy, and unproductive content consuming rituals!
Replace them with time invested in reading personal development and leadership books, prayer and meditation, practice of gratitude, skill development, exercise, or productive work toward advancing your side hustle. Try it for just a week and tell me you don't feel better!
There's a lot of neuroscience behind this, and the practice of neurolinguistic modeling has become more and more mainstream in high performing individuals.
You can even go all the way back to the Apostle Paul who wrote: "Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right; think upon things that are pure and lovely; dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you have that you can praise God and be grateful for."
It's a core law of life. The harvest you receive is directly related to the seeds you sow, and that's also true with our thoughts.
The secret then is to control our mental, emotional, psychological states; to program and model the focus of our thinking.
While we are a product of our environment, our environment is a product of us. YOU CAN CREATE and dwell and soak in the environment that will create a stronger, healthier, happier product that is YOU. That's something worth thinking about.
I accept responsibility for sowing the proper seed to receive the harvest God has prepared for me.
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