What Are You Planting Today?

You will die. So will I.

It’s a hard truth we don’t think about nearly enough. But instead of dwelling on the eventual outcome, it’s far more helpful to think about what you get to do while you are alive.

Some people figure this out, and some don’t. There is a powerful quote I think about often when I am having a bad day or bad moment:

“We all end up in the same dirt. The only difference is what we planted before we got there.”

During a recent episode of Any Given Saturday on Netflix, Eugene Asante, a senior at Auburn University playing his last home football game, sent this text to his head coach, Hugh Freeze, who read it out loud to the team:

What Asante understood, and what you must understand, is that every day you get the opportunity to plant seeds. You can inspire. You can teach. You can lift others up. You can do something today that will live on beyond you. Your primary job is to plant positive seeds.

The fruit of your actions may not be visible right away. It may not even show up in your lifetime. But that does not change the fact that you planted it.

So, what are you going to plant today?

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