This is the final installment in the Garden of Life video series. This series is all about The Analogy Of Life To A Garden. We’ll dig into each individual disaster that can happen when trying to build a garden and find out just how each disaster relates to your life – and what you can do to overcome and triumph.
We last left the garden in a complete disaster. What in the blue blazes do you do about all these disasters?
Bad soil
You either find some fertilizier or something to make the soil work – or you flat out move to different soil.
In life, the soil is the environment in which you live. Are you in an environment that promotes your growth and allows you to live your dreams and ideas? Or are you in an environment that is dead, stagnant, and unable to provide for what you want? Sometimes you just need a new environment my friend.
Rocks
Sometimes rocks prevent you from planting. They suck! So you dig in and remove them. Sometimes they are too big to remove.
In life, the rocks are the bad habits preventing you from making a change. Even if you are in the right environment, you are not going to make any change if there are habits preventing you from doing so. Changing habits – like clearing rocks is difficult at first. But once you have changed the habits, that obstacle is generally not a problem. If a rock is too big to overcome, you get help from professionals, plain and simple.
Animals
Sometimes a badger or if you are trying to be amusing as I was, radioactive worms, gnaw at the plant that is growing. Something must be done to deal with these crazy critters.
In real life, when you are in the right environment, and you’ve created good habits, there are external events outside of your control or realization that try and derail you. This can be a law that sidelines your business, or having a surgery (which I’ve experienced), or having some company undercut your prices, or whatever it is. The way you deal with this is to put into place the necessary protections for yourself. Have the surgery, and follow the recovery options. Create a copyright. Hire a lawyer. Add so much value to your products and services that no price undercut is going to make a difference. Do whatever it takes to prevent the animals from coming back!
Sun being blocked out
Sometimes a garden is derailed through a lack of sunlight. This can cause the plants to simply die, not getting the nutrients from the sun they need.
In life, you may have made some progress on creating your dreams and ideas. But you lose the passion and drive to see them through to completion. You may quit before you finish! I did this back in 2004 with a website selling computer games. Just when it was starting to have success, I said, “this is taking too much time.” I sabatoged myself. Don’t let this happen to you. If you truly believe in something, don’t ever give up on it! Nurture it.
Floods
Sometimes a garden can get flooded and water will drown everything that lives. If you are not prepared, there’s not too much you can do about this.
In life, your life can get flooded by stressful and time consuming events, having to work extra hours, getting sick, losing all your money, or feeling stressed out about everything. This can certainly derail everything you are trying to accomplish. Set backs like this are difficult. You generally have to work hard to withstand the events that occur. There is likely lost time and damage done that has to be built up from again – but the effects are not permanent.
Tornado/Disaster
A natural disaster like a tornado will destroy your garden, period.
In life, disasters can occur. You can lose your job, lose all your money, lose your marriage, lose a limb, deal with the death of a loved one, watch your business go under, etc… Whereas the animals and flood in the garden were temporary setbacks, disasters like the tornado represent that absolute worst that can happen. You deal with this as the Friggin Persistent Knight would. You must muster all the courage you have, all your persistence and shout, “I will not be overcome. I will be stronger. I will still create wonderful dreams and ideas. There is no disaster that can stop me.” Your will will certainly be tested by these kinds of events.
The garden of life is the environment, habits, and events which shape your destiny. How is your garden looking? What events have set you back in the past? I hope you enjoyed this simple series and I look forward to speaking with you again!
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I love how you broke down all the components to the garden or the damage of the garden. Isn’t it interesting how the most destroying component, the tornado is the shortest lived component?
Great video by the ways. Thanks for sharing!!
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You make a good point about the most damaging component lasting but a short time. It is amazing how things can turn in an instant from great to awful and those are the times our will is tested to the limits. Thanks for that insight Jarrod.
Good stuff!
Hey, I think your favicon is gone? I cleared my cache, but don’t see it. Tell me I’m crazy.
On your last line, “Your will will certailny be tested by these kinds of events.”
I had to read it twice, but certainly is spelled wrong. Hey, if you catch any of mine, let me know.
Also, feel free to delete this comment once you fix it.
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Hi Scott, thanks for stopping by – and for your good eye.
Hi Jeremy,
I enjoyed this series. I wrote a book entitled My Garden many moons ago — there was quite a war between the flowers and the weeds :) To continue your analogy, I do my best to tend to and nurture my garden. I’m going to do a site re-design soon and I hope you’ll still drop by. Life / the elements gives us experiences to predict occasional storms. A fertile environment allows us to weather the unexpected.
Loved the ‘Friggin Persistent Knight.’ Keep creating Jeremy — watching your growth into an illustrious forest will be a joy!
HI Kim – I would love to buy a copy of your book about the garden with the war between the flowers and weeds. That sounds like such an awesome way to do a story!
You’re right on about life/the elements and the fertile environment. Once we’ve gone through a storm or two, we can start to predict and prepare. I enjoyed making the Knight video. Looking forward to your site redesign and continuing to learn from you.
Hi Jeremy,
The book was done in grade school. So, there is only one tattered copy. I enjoyed the concept. Ha – maybe you could run with it and use it in a video :)
I’m happy to have you in my garden. It’s awesome to learn AND share in the realm of personal growth and development.
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I might have to do a bonus garden video just to use weeds and plants, I think I could come up with some good drawings and sound for that one. Very happy to be in your garden as well, learning and growing with you.
Hi Jeremy,
Great way to tell a story and illustrate it with video. I must check out the other two parts.
Gardening and nature are great ways of learning about life’s ebbs and flows and what can be created. I think that although we have a tendency to try and control the world around us sometimes we have to understand there is a rythym to life and to fight that is more destructive than anything.
Adrian
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Hi Adrian. You’re right about the ‘nature’ and ‘rhythm’ of life. I’ve learned that there is always a storm that comes as well as a time for reaping what was sown. Being prepared for both circumstances is essential.