Hot and Cold Seeds…

A few days ago I asked my beautiful Instagram community a few questions:…

What subjects do you like hearing about?

What are some reasons you follow me?

If you could describe me in 3 words what would you say?

It was fun. Actually it made me feel pretty good because the brave souls who responded were honest and encouraging…If you didn’t see those stories, feel free to reply here so that I may continue gathering information. As always, I appreciate your time and thoughts, family.

Gathering feedback on one’s self is a sticky task that requires thick skin and perspective. Growth in my experience often requires 2 truths to exist simulataneously:

a) move into discomfort with patience and/or grace for yourself.

b) consider the source when accepting the critique.

People are primed.

Consciously and unconsciously.

There was a Tony Robbins clip (I’ll find it and link it) where he shares how a study found people were unconsciously primed by their enviornment.

If you didn’t click on the link, the summary is this: In the study, they took 100 actors, had them walk up to strangers, hand them a coffee, look down and say “oh will you please hold this real quick” while they proceed to type something on their phones. As they finish, they look up, take the coffee back, thank them and walk away. Thirty minutes later, these same strangers are approached and asked to read a short story and provide their interpretation of the main character in exchange for $20.

The next part is wild. Apparently 81% of people who held an ICED COFFEE described the main character in the story as cold and uncaring … and 80% of people who held a HOT COFFEE described the main character in the story as warm and genuine.

People are primed. Our thoughts are seeded by something or someone.

What you’ve seen and heard, whether conscious or unconscious, has been downloaded to prime the garden of your mind.

Nurture and Nature, they both play a part.

Consider there are millions of people defying the odds of what you would expect given their life’s experiences. Some incredible humans have manufactured an unbounded life despite being primed by real darkness. Simply put, anything is possible.

Dude, Tony Robbins himself.

His life story is B A N A N A S.

Knowing you can’t control the past and all we are ever truly experiencing is the NOW MOMENT, why not prime yourself each day. Wake up and plant the seeds. If it takes 8 hours of sunlight, a bigger pot, weekly water, and chicken manure to grow a lemon tree then you would make the proper arrangements so that your tree bears fruit, right? Remind me to tell you about the time I accidentally inhaled chicken manure dust because someone was a little too eager to “do it herself”.

Are you bearing fruit?

Do you start the day primed for growth or are you letting old seeds sit?

As my mama always said “know better, do better”.

You just need to know that an alternative potential exists because it most certainly does. Your thoughts may or may not be true - what matters more than that is your willingness to ask the tough questions and plant new seeds.

OKAYILOVEYOUBYEEE,

xx

Nic.

ps. Classes this week:

* Tuesday (today) QUICKIE YOGA 12-12:30pm pst. $10. This is a well rounded, accessible yoga flow paired with music that includes mobility work and a 5 minute savasana. It’s meant to be a community offering at $10 a class and if you need financial assistance, just reach out. Hope to see you soon. Sign up here.

pps. Get ready for a weird month. I’ll be traveling to Tulum and South Africa so July will be hit and miss with classes, weekly emails, and my sleep routine (lol that’s a me problem).

ppps. No JULY FIT monthly program BUT I will hold single strength classes July 8 - July 19th for anyone who wants to drop in, sweat, laugh, build muscle mass, and hear some inappropriate stories. Check my class schedule here and sign up.

pppps. If you’re in a seed planting life chapter, check out this amazing company where I got my gorgeous new lemon tree. www.Territorialseed.com

**Here are some awesome answers from my IG poll…Ask and you shall receive, lol.