Sprouts Journal

by Meggan Larson

This journal is 8.25 x 11.

I spent most of my life unable to look anyone in the eye, I rarely smiled, and although I hoped for a better future, at the end of the day I wasn’t sure one was coming. For close to a decade I worked on my personal growth. I knew that if I was going to succeed in life then I would need to become a better person. I couldn’t hope to build trust with people if I didn’t like them. I worked to overcome the negative mindset that being abandoned by my birth parents had left me with. I struggled through learning how to trust people, believe the best in people, and overcome the many challenges thrown my way including cancer, two babies in critical care at the hospital, and a life threatening pregnancy. A mentor shared a story about a farmer and how that farmer plants seeds. Does the farmer come out weeks later, look around at the small sprouts and stomp all over them because they haven't grown enough? Of course not. The farmer knows that sprouts are evidence of what's to come. The person I am today radiates positivity and joy. I smile everywhere I go, I genuinely love people, and my life’s mission is to help as many people as humanely possible. The key to all of this was focusing on what was going well. I nurtured what was going well the way that a farmer nurtures his sprouts. I cared for them, I spoke life into them, and I protected them. I didn't stomp on my sprouts by saying "I courageously stood up for myself today but it wasn't received well." No! Anytime you say "but" you are stomping on your sprouts. I wrote out three things that went well every single day and then reflected on what I was thankful for. This daily practice took me from a super negative person to one who was so focused on the good I didn't even get depressed during cancer. I believe the key to successfully becoming a better person is to first decide that you want to be one. Once you plant your flag in the ground that says you’re no longer satisfied with being the kind of person that brings others down instead of lifting them up, that’s when you can begin to change. All it takes is one decision after another to learn, expand, and grow in ways you never even imagined. Focus only on what's going well and that's what you'll get more of. I believe in you, and I believe that this practice will change your entire life.

190 pages, Hardcover

Published November 6, 2021

About the author

Meggan Larson is an award winning author (best selling on Amazon), course creator, wife, mom, and adoptee. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband and three children. She helps women tell their beautiful, powerful, and authentic stories.

She lives her life around the concept of the starfish story, where a woman is tossing washed up starfish back into the ocean as they lay dying on the shore, and someone comes along and scoffs at her. He tells her she can’t possibly make a difference because there are thousands and she’ll never get to them all in time. She picks one up, tosses it back into the water, and says,

“It made a difference to that one.”

Meggan want to make a difference, even if it's just for one person.