I was weeding out my vegetable garden today and could not help but make this correlation. Growing a vegetable garden is like growing your business. They both take patience, persistence and practice. When creating a garden you need to have a plan of action. You need to determine the size of the garden, and decide which plants you will want to grow. Then you need to measure and space out which plants need to go beside each other and which ones like being on their own. Like a business, you need to make sure you have your plan of action before you start to do any of the work. Your business plan of action might involve having the right resources, training, and a daily to do list.
Patience: After you've planted your seeds. It's time to be patient. Like a business, you will not see results from your efforts right way, it takes time. It takes hard work and it takes a lot more patience than you think.
Persistence: Vegetables need to be watered and weeded every day in order for them to grow and stay healthy. Doing the same thing over and over again will get boring but will help your vegetables grow. Like your business, you will need to do some mundane and tedious tasks in order to generate leads and sales.Nothing can grow if you do not take care and put effort into it.
Practice: Some of your vegetables might not grow, perhaps the soil was wrong, you did not plant them in the right season or the seeds were not deep enough. Like a business, you should expect failure to happen. You should also learn to embrace failure because it WILL happen. You will learn as time goes on, that failure only makes you work harder and do better the next time.
Back to my garden....
My carrots did not grow at all, my bean plants were being eaten by bugs, half of my cucmbers grew, my lettuce took longer than I thought, my beets were all different sizes and my onions were being eaten my fiancee before they even grew to full size.
Was I disappointed? No! I didn't expect anything to come up at all. I'm grateful that anything grew at all and am focusing on taking care of the veggies that grew, watering them, weeding them and helping them make their way to my kitchen faster.
A little bit of effort goes a long way and once you get the flow of things you will only keep getting better with PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE and PRACTICE!
- Lark Miller
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