Spring is a beautiful time of year when the plants around us come to life.   It's a rebirth of everything beautiful.  Spring is when we plant our gardens, carefully choosing the plants, the soil and the location.  Once planted we nurture it until we harvest the fruit of our labor of love.

As we approach this Spring and start to prepare our gardens, I can't help but think about spending some time planting the seeds of Prosperity.  These are challenging economic times.    Many of us are still in Winter when to comes to our prosperity.  This spring, how about spending a little time planting the seeds or prosperity. garden.

    Dictionary.com defines prosperity as a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, esp. in financial respects; good fortune.

So how does one go about planting seeds of prosperity?  To start, think about how you would go about planting a garden.

Step One:  Planning

  • Decide what seeds you are going to plant and when you want to harvest those plants. 
  • Will you be planting vegetables or fruit.  
  • When do you plan to harvest what you plant?   Summer or Fall?

When you are planting for prosperity this means setting financial goals. 

  • Where do you want your financial future to take you?     
  • What does financial prosperity look like to you? 
  • Does it mean more clients, less debt, more savings? 
  • Draw a picture of what your prosperity will look like?    

Step Two:  Ammending the Soil

  • What do you need to amend the soil of your garden with to get the desired results?
  • Is it rich organic mushroom soil for healthy and big vegetables or is a soil designed to grow beautiful roses in?  Or will you plant a tree that will provide shade for years to come?

When amending the soil for prosperity you need to choose how to enrich yourself so that you can reach the goals you set in Step One. 

  • Will you take classes to further your education?  
  • How will you stretch yourself so that you gain the skills needed to reach the prosperity you desire?
  • Will you tackle your debt and set yourself up for long term financial health,
  • How about adding adding another profit center to increase income?
  • Most important in this phase is developing a prosperity state of mind.

Step 3:  Planting 

  • This is where you get your hands dirty.
  • Dig the holes, and plant those seeds.
  • Water them in.

Planting for Prosperity means taking action every day to reach that prosperity goal.  

  • Take the step to enroll in that social networking class
  • How about making an appointment with a financial consultant to plan for the future
  • Talk to a debt consultant about strategies for managing debt.

Step 4:  Nurturing

  • Water your garden daily or as appropriate.
  • Pull the weeds, stake the plants and watch them grow.

Nurturing your Financial Prosperity will entail:

  • spending a few minutes each day focusing on your prosperity
  • defining 1 or 2 actions that you'll take that day towards your prosperity goal.
  • Spend a few minutes each day focusing on a prosperity mindset and focusing on abundance.

Step 5:  Harvesting

  • Here is the fun part, harvesting those beautiful plants that you grew.

Imagine right now what your prosperity harvest will look like?  Draw a picture and see yourself harvesting your plans. 

The beautiful prosperity garden will provide great joy for years to come in the form of financial freedom.

 

                       

 

 What seeds of prosperity will you plant this spring? 

 

Kate Bourland is a Debt and Credit Specialist who creates customized Debt Solutions and wealth plans fore every client. Got Debt? I can help!  Call today - 1- 530-419-3967.

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12 Comments on Planting the Seeds of Prosperity - Spring Fresh

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Kate, What a lovely post and I do believe those seeds sprout and GROW!  Wonderful blog and good luck with the contest!

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Thank you Carole - it was fun writing this post.  Funny how the end product is sometimes so different from the orignial plan. 

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Kate--I love the fresh way to promote prosperity.  I was trying to read all the contest entries, but I see that you posted just before the deadline.  Thanks for visiting my puddle yesterday.  That led me here.  Love the flowering trees.  Your area is about a month ahead of Lake Erie area.  See you again.  Mary

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Kate..I really like your post spring fresh..Good Luck!

HelpfulHannah your friend in Philadelphiasmile

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Kate - loved your post!  What a wonderful way of getting the message out about how important it is for us to nurture our business.  Best of luck in the contest.

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Hi Kate—More people need to read this as it's so important for us to not just focus on earning a living, but of equal importance is how we plan to use these earnings to improve our lives today, tomorrow and in the future. Thanks for participating in the Spring Fresh contest. Good luck!

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Mary, I love you puddle, I just played in it again.  I'm trying to read all the entries too - some are fabulous.

Hannah - thanks for dropping by.  It was fun writing this post.

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Hey Donne, thanks for the kind words, it was a fun post to write. 

Linda, you got it.  Sometimes we need to ask ourselves why we are here.

Renee - hmmmm - is interesting good or bad?  Thanks for dropping by.

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Kate,

Loved your post; good analogy. Good luck on the contest.

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I love the garden analogy, and the picture composition is absolutely excellent. Great post!

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