Working with nature, gardeners rotate their beds every year, either moving crops to a different bed or skipping a crop for a year. This starves the pests that fed on the plants you grew last season. It gives soil predators time to clear the bed.
Bed rotation - along with growing nitrogen-fixing plants - provides a fallow season for that bed to feed its soil.
Our personal lives need this too. As we trace the same routine day to day and week to week, we are repeat planting in the same beds. Difficulties begin to seem intractable, permanent. Rewards and pleasures become stale. We are ripe for the pests we are feeding, that chew on our willpower, our confidence, our joy at life.
Our lives, like the raised beds in our gardens, need fallow time to replenish our souls.
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