A Victory Garden

During World War II , Victory Gardens were planted by families in the United States to help prevent a food shortage.  This meant food for everyone!  Planting Victory Gardens helped make sure that there was enough food for our soldiers fighting around the world.   

To create a Victory Garden, you plan it, you prep it, choose your vegetables and plant them, water well, feed them as needed and keep the weeds down.  After a short while, you will reap what you've sown!  While this might sound quite simple, it's a lot of work.  But then there are great benefits as well!

It's that way with our own lives as well, if you look at the bigger picture.  We still have to make a plan for our lives, and then prep for that plan.  Choose what's needed to make the plan happen, then add in the things that make it possible.  In the long run, you'll have created a life of your own choosing.  

This doesn't have to be a single minded plan for your entire life - you can choose to change or reinvent yourself if things didn't work out as planned.  I've had my own choices in life to make.  I married my high school sweetheart, but when we're young, we don't really know ourselves enough to know what we want or expect from ourselves or in a marriage.  

Career-wise, I studied throughout high school and into some college years to function as an Admin in a corporation.  Those were the days when women took classes like typing, accounting, shorthand (do they even offer that or use it any longer????)  but after a few jobs that were short term, I ended up working for a forklift dealership in the service dept.  And I must have liked it -- I stayed for 22 years!  hahaha  Actually, I used to joke about this being the best job I ever had - I told 10 men where to go and what to do!!!  lol   But seriously, it was a very good job with very good people, and I learned a lot about service and inventory.  Which came in handy for the next job phase, working at Walmart.  

Just like that Victory Garden back in the 40s, what we do, what we plan, can have a big impact on the directions our lives take.  Some good, some not so good, but even the not so good is a learning process.  Sometimes the vegetables we would like to grow don't thrive in our soil.  But that's ok, it's a learning process, and we can make changes as we go.   So go out, and grow!