This is a YouTube video titled "What Are You Watering In Your Life Garden?" containing a recorded conversation from November 15, 2020. The discussion features Ask AI Mark and another speaker exploring the metaphor of "life gardens," emphasizing how individuals allocate their time, energy, and money to different aspects of life such as health, relationships, and career. The conversation highlights the importance of intentional focus and patience in nurturing valued areas of life.
You talk about something called life gardens, which is kind of a novel concept. I never heard of it before and why it's important that we tend our gardens in life and how it affects everything from our careers, our relationships, to our finances and our health. So, what are life gardens and how do we get one?
Here's the thing. The tricky part is we all have one, right? But the question is when you start looking at your life garden, are you watering weeds or plants that you say you value? So, if you took a look at your health, your family, your career, your passions, all these things that are important to you in life that you say are important. And then you look at how much water each of them will take to thrive. And to me, water is kind of the blended currency of time, money, and energy. We'll exchange those three for each other all the time, right? A lot of people trade their time for money. We put our energy into our work. And so you have a finite amount of water at any given point. So you talk about work-life balance. Where's the date night with your wife? Where is, you know, hanging out at the kid's soccer game? Are these things on your calendar? where are the things that you say you value and are you watering them enough? And if you start looking at this landscape of your life as a garden, first off, any good gardener knows you could plant a seed and it takes 90 days to see the harvest. And so it teaches us to be patient and it teaches us to kind of methodically stay focused on what we said we want. I just planted a tomato plant here. Tomorrow I'm planting broccoli right next to it. What's going to happen to the tomato plant? right? That's what we do in life. Oh, I'm on this diet. Now I'm keto. Now I'm this. Now I'm that. It's just like you don't even put the seed in the ground and you stop watering it, right?
Yeah.
And so, looking at the life metaphor of the life garden, then it's on us, right? We get to decide where our water goes.
