The Social Seed Podcast

Welcome Back

Hello and thank you for reading today’s podcast. My name is Tom, I am the host and creator of The Social Seed.

Every week I read a piece of literature I feel will inspire your mind, feed your soul and elevate – your life!

This is a poem I was inspired to create after I started reading The 5 AM Club. I call it “The Legend”.

“Be the Bee buzzing around, pollinating people with knowledge abound, creating fruit for all to feed, curing the world with a social seed.”

This has become my mantra. To inspire individuals with weekly words of wisdom to help create a more happy and productive life. More importantly -a better world!

Current Events

In the last episode I was leaving Bequia and sailed 90 miles overnight to Martinique. For some, night sailing can be daunting, they were for me at first as well. After a little over two years of cruising, I find I enjoy them very much. I’m forced to focus more with my senses in order to sail. I feel the roll of the waves that I can barely see. I feel the wind more vividly which helps me to keep a good wind angle. Also, my attention is zoned in to offshore vessels because my depth perception is not as accurate at night and a ship’s movement can be deceiving. The best of all, is that I am up for the fantastic stars, moon and beautiful sunrise! We arrived sooner than expected, so we eased our sails and slowed down, waiting for enough sunlight to enter the Sainte Anne Anchorage. We checked on our AIS and found Sean and Nicole from S/V New World and gladly dropped our anchor directly behind their catamaran, while yelling “good morning”! Previously they had left Chatham Bay and headed directly to Martinique. With our anchor securely in the sand we rested for a while to rejuvenate our body’s. This is where I will leave off for the week!

Let’s read today’s Words of Wisdom and see if it is the seed that will grow inside of you and inspire – your life!

Words Of Wisdom
Today’s Words of Wisdom are by Corey Buter. Here are steps 3 and 4 of “How to Manifest Anything In 8 Easy Steps“.

Step # 3 Believe
“Wayne Dyer says “Trust in your nature”. Belief and faith are fundamental. The universe is taking care of us. Once you are clear about what you want let it go and trust that it has been taken care of. You won’t be let down – I promise”!

Step#4 Visualize
“Imagine the desire of your outcome already happened. Focus especially on how good it feels, turn up the intensity. There is good scientific reason to do this but for now just know that everytime you do this you are bringing it closer to you”.

The Social Seed Talk
So step #3 is Belief
It may be hard to establish belief in yourself. In the book “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale. He wrote “The blows of life, the accumulation of difficulties, and the multiplication of problems tend to sap energy and leave you spent and discouraged”. When this happens you can use step #2 Gratitude. Write down what you are grateful for to help you establish belief.
What is belief? The Oxford dictionary says “An acceptance that something exist or is true, especially one without proof” and it also says “Trust, faith or confidence in” So you need to trust in yourself and have faith that you can accomplish your goal, even if you don’t have proof that you can. That can be hard to do, but I would rather use my energy trying to accomplish a goal then to waste my time and energy thinking I can’t and be trapped with the thought of never knowing. A way to build ” belief” can be accomplished with the daily use of mental affirmations. An example can be “I can accomplish my goal and I am going to work on it until…” Say it every day until you viscerally believe in yourself. This will help you “believe“.

This leads us to step #4.

Step #4 Visualize
What does it mean to visualize? The dictionary meaning is “form a mental image of; imagine“. For me this is the fun part. I get to relax and let my mind wonder with mysterious thoughts and mental images of how I am going to accomplish my goals or how I see myself working through a situation. Sometimes it takes me a while but eventually I work though my thoughts and figure out what the next best step is going to be. Visualization also gives me an inspirational feeling and a since that I am on my way to achieving my goal. In your visualization world you can be and do anything you want! So – “Visualize“!

Find Your Inspiration
I thank you for listening today. I encourage you to find your inspiration in life and be – the best you!
I want to also thank Corey Buter for his research and development of “How to Manifest Anything In 8 Easy Steps” and our social seed for this week.

Be A Participant
Please feel free to write me and let me know how I make you feel. If you have a favorite inspirational literature you would like me to read with the name of the author. Or maybe how this podcast has changed your life!

My wife came up with a brilliant idea if you would like to use it “to write the qoute down in a journal and write how it makes you feel”.

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