DON’T LET YOURSELF STAGNATE

Think about water in a backyard pond
When you first put water in a pond
It’s healthy and vibrant
It’ll support fish and plant life

But if you keep the same old water
In the pond week after week
Pretty soon it gets stagnant
The fish and plant life in the pond
Become poisoned 

With waste and eventually die

For the pond to support life
You have to recirculate the water
Or better yet add new water frequently
When you do that the fish and plants
Will thrive for a long time

Like a pond each of us has a certain
Amount of mental, emotional and physical water
Meaning our thoughts, our actions 

Our history and so on at any given time
That water does a pretty good job

Of supporting our lives at their current levels
But unless we add fresh water all the time
In the form of new experiences
New ways of thinking, new beliefs and new ideas
Then we too become stagnant

The last time you were faced 

With a new idea or a different way 

Of looking at something
How difficult did you find it to
Open up to opportunities?
All too often we get stuck in our prejudices
And old ideas because we feel they’re right

Closing yourself to opportunities
Keeps you stagnant and in today’s
Accelerated world of life and business
Stagnant means never growing or learning
As we were born to do