What Size Is YOUR "Clay Pot"?
- Patsy Goins

Can you relate your personal growth to the growth of a
plant for a moment.

What does it take for a plant to grow? Soil, light,
water, and some fertilizer, right?

You take a seed and plant it in a small clay pot. You
water it, place it in the sun and it should grow.
There is always the chance the seed is no grand. As
long as you take care of the new plant, it will
continue to grow. What do you have to do in
order to keep the plant growing? Give it light, water
and fertilize it. When the plant is big enough, the
roots will be contained by the small clay pot. It will
have no more room to grow. The plant quits getting
bigger. You may transplant it into a larger clay pot,
with proper care, it will again increase in size.

Your mind works much the same way. How you take
care of your mind determines the growing you do. You
might read and expand the mind. How almost always , how much
and what you read determines how your mind grows.
You, unlike a plant, have choices and can read what you
want when you want to read. (Your mind like a plant is
dependant on you.) There are tapes you can listen to
and expand your mind. Again, you decide what you want to
feed your mind through listening. Will it be motivational,
instructional, self help, music, comedy - You get the idea
of your choices in feeding your mind. This would be like
giving the plant water and fertilizer.

Experiences shape your mind and your thought process.
You build a choice where you will be, and therefore,
determine the type experiences youre feeding yourself.
Youd set yourself up for much different experiences
say, by going to a church function going to a
tavern/pub. This might relate to the light youd give a plant.
The sun always pulls a plant toward itself.

OK, youve read a book. Will you chose to read
another book? Listened to a tape, and have some
experiences that have determined your growth until now.
Your growth until this point in your life is the size
of your "clay pot" right now. You can choose
to learn and knowledge more which will cause self
growth. When you build that choice you will increase
the size of your "clay pot".

2002 -P.Goins

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