It’s so easy these days to get caught up in the drama of the outer world, of other people’s opinions, the overwhelm of raising families, wondering where the time is going, and trying to figure out your life in the insane velocity of change none of us are equipped for!
Are we safe? Are we not safe? What about AI, traffic, the weather, Tinder swindlers, ads on your streaming channels now?? Can you actually trust that text that says something about your bank?
AND, then of course there is the anxiety of the aging body that (surprise!) is not an invitation to a picnic. Welcome, overnight flabby arms! Ok, fine, back to gym to lift heavier things.
You’d agree the circus of life is not always so entertaining, is it?
But all of it, the whole catastrophe, can be manageable if we learn to get the hang of “this and that is true” and also a few minutes a day to gently focus on gratitude and choose where our focus grows. It’s a lot easier to do than you think!
So, I’m going to use the analogy of a garden here.
Whatever we focus on—anxiety, comparison, stubborn resistance to life on life’s terms, impatience, self-centered fear, apathy, judgment of others—these are all like seeds. In fact, every feeling we rehearse over and over, regardless of what it is, becomes a seed we scatter across the field of our lives.
We can unconsciously scatter weeds that, by their very nature, will choke the life out of the beautiful flowers we plant alongside them. We all have our individual Field of Dreams where we can consciously tend to the experiences of life we want to create, to tend to that garden to those plants and flowers. But we also need to remove the weeds—those thoughts and feelings that keep returning on rerun, often because they’re familiar or because the media we digest reinforces them.
I used this seed analogy today because of a text I got this morning from my girlfriend Kristin in LA. She had given out copies of The Art of Manifesting at a birthday party, and then another attendee did the same thing at a brunch on Sunday. They drew their AM Method drawings on seed paper!
I had never heard of this botanical paper before—it’s recycled and made with wildflower seeds that sprout when you plant the paper. How magical is that? So I found out that all these cool women are doing this with their friends—planting their destiny doodles!
So if you want to do this too, you can search it online to get the paper, (make sure you get non- toxic pens) or just doodle on regular paper and keep it somewhere safe and sacred to revisit later. All the instructions on how to do this are in my book.
Just know that coming back to yourself is remembering you have a powerful magic in you to co-create your life, your experiences, your future in partnership with the Divine. That life force energy that activates those seeds activates your dreams and desires too.
May your gratitude circles give you hope, ease, joy, and peace.
Love,
Colette
P.S. If you start the 7-week program from The Art of Manifesting now, you’ll finish just in time to launch your new year with me at my annual Vision Board event for 2026 on January 6th! It’s free—so get ready for miracles.
