Seeds

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant."
  - Robert Louis Stevenson

What a perfect quote for this beautiful autumn season!

All too often we tend to judge ourselves, our progress on this earth, our development as humans, in fact our entire lives by the results we yield!

On the Harvest!

We tend to use the most prevalent means available to judge and evaluate our value and our meaning here on earth - which are money, wealth, possessions, social status, career, etc.

This is the world in which we live and the preliminary test of our value often falls into these monetary and materialistic categories.

These materialistic things - while necessary in our world and always in our faces - are the "harvest" cited in the quote above.

If we pin all of our value as human beings on having the greatest amount of harvest, boy are we missing the point of our purpose on this planet!

It is the planting of the seeds, the daily actions and interactions that we take that truly matter!

If we were to judge quality of life and true value based solely on material possessions, we would have to eliminate so many amazing and impactful lives from this "list".

Last I checked, Mother Theresa, all of the Saints, and a carpenter from Galilee never obtained a spot on the Forbes 500 Wealthiest People edition.
There is nothing wrong with striving for a comfortable life and working hard in your vocation. This is not the point I am trying to make.

The point is that if we use the standard worldly measure of a person's true value here on earth, and we allow that measure to drive our throughts, emotions, and our happiness and peace, then 99% of us are setting ourselves up for failure!

It is not the "harvest" alone that makes us the special people we are - it is the planting of the seeds - our kindness, our compassion,  our willingness to help others and to insure other people find peace and joy - that truly matter!!!

Lighten up on yourself and adjust your parameters!

Choose and guard closely your measuring stick and judgement criteria because this will drive your happiness and joy!!

Keep planting these seeds daily, continue to tend to your daily work with the right focus, and I assure you there is zero doubt you will experience an immeasurable and irreplaceable HARVEST in your life!!

Stay Strong!