Ep. 08 The weird plant with a lesson

The COMEBACK Coach

There's a plant that grows in Africa which is thought to live for thousands of years.
Some estimates even put it that this plant lives for as long as 5000 years.
Which if right would make it among the oldest living things on Earth.
Weird, peculiar, wonderful, strange, bizarre, fascinating, and of course, unique, are the kind of words that are used to describe the Welwitschia mirabilis.
Otherwise known by the abbreviated name Welwitschia (spelled W - E - L - W - I - T- S - C - H - I - A) Welwitschia -- named after the the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch back in 1859.
The plant is also nicknamed 'living fossil".
Now, why am I talking about a plant on a podcast about doming back from setbacks?
Well, I'm recording this podcast episode on Friday, January 15, 2021 -- and despite the 'times that are a changing' around the world right now one thing is for certain. The long-living welwitschia plant is detached from all of it.
It will survive whatever is happening in our world -- just as it has for thousands of years.
This plant does not live according to the circumstances of its environment. Come what may - the welwitschia plant survives.
I'd like you to join me in being just like the welwitschia plant. A survivor.
Despite what the world may throw in our faces -- we can and will survive.
For the welwitschia plant survival is built into its very being.
For us humans survival has also been built into our human DNA.
The one difference between such a thing as a long-living plant and us humans is that we have a faculty of the mind which enables us to make choices.
We can and will survive whatever the situation, circumstance or event facing us now or in the future -- or we can suffer according to the decisions we make.
Remember, thoughts are things, such powerful things, that we become what we think about.
Choose your significant thoughts wisely.
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