Who's In Your Mind Garden?

The Mind Garden

A short time ago, I saw Shara Lawrence-Weiss of Mommy Perks had tweeted something about a community garden.  Then there were tweets exchanged about wishing we lived close enough to have a community garden.  Dr. Lynne Kenney tweeted back: "We have a Mind Garden!"  You know what?  She was right!

Over the past few years, I have connected with scores of colleagues, made new friends and even been involved in writing a book courtesy of twitter, facebook and other social media (most recently, Pinterest).

The Mind Garden: Defined

A Mind Garden isn't a place, as much as it is a concept.  Thanks to the internet, there are no borders or boundaries when it comes to a Mind Garden.  We can cultivate it 24/7 and it even bears fruit!

My Mind Garden includes: @braininsights @DrLynneKenney @ListenToMePleas @LouiseASL @MommyPerks  @SueAtkins  @TheKidCoach @VivienSabel @DrRosina @LauraChildcare @janetlansbury @lisasunbury @TheTwinCoach @MovingSmartNow and more...my list is growing every day. 

Mind Garden Benefits

My Mind Garden helps me grow as a mom, as a person, and as a human being trying to do better and be better, each day that I am gifted with another chance at putting my feet on the floor and moving forward.  On any given day, I can find information about whipping up a wonderful meal, how to run my business, how to beautify my garden, how to fix a broken screen (or a broken heart) , how to slowwwww down and relax, find something that makes me laugh, moves me to tears and changes my perspective.  I have even taken "mini vacations" without leaving my home, all courtesy of my Mind
Garden. 

A Mind Garden Grows When We Share It with Others

If you do a post about a Mind Garden, and you'd like me to share it here, just drop me a line and I'll add a link to your article right in this post.

Here is Dr. Lynne's original post on Mind Gardens.

Here is Shara @MommyPerk's post.

Oh, and if you find a good article that you'd love to share with others, simply hashtag it #MindGarden on twitter and then we'll all find it!

Happy Gardening {and parenting/teaching, too!}