Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Growth is the Opportunity
For months, the header information at the top of the blog, has said "Grow!... the constant challenge we face from birth."
I changed it today.
The wording suddenly sounded biased toward the negative. Now it says, ..."Grow!...the OPPORTUNITY we're given from birth" and it applies to the individual or business or any other organization.
Now I don't have anything in particular against "challenge" - I actually like the word & what it means to me. Yet depending on context and who you are it may carry a connotation of heaviness. Something which is daunting. Something which must be overcome. Opportunity though, tends to have a more hopeful meaning to most.
It's been said "if you're not growing, you're dying." That's easy to understand. Especially if you think of plants or crops. From that vision it's easy to map it back to our own lives and activities.
It's easy to translate too: Growth is way better than the alternative.
Here at home in Celina, Texas we have several late season plants still growing and blooming such as pumpkins (some of the giant type for October), watermelons (tasted great!), cantaloupe (also great!), mandevilla (stunning) and morning glories (actually no bloom yet).
Every day they reach out a little further. The fruit grows a little bit bigger, toward a day when it will be ready for the business end of things. Were it not for seasons and the shrinking number of the their growing hours, I think the vines would be keep right on growing. Plants don't think about personal growth. They just do it - assuming the right conditions.
Every day we each have the opportunity to reach out a little further, let our dreams & projects grow a little bigger. We can prepare to deliver results. One advantage is we're not constrained by the seasons. We can go right on growing, improving ourselves & producing good things 365 days a year. The other advantage we have, is that conditions around us don't have to be perfect. We can create the conditions for growth right in our own minds.
So, from day 1 of our lives, we have the blessed opportunity for personal growth. Every day we get to ask ourselves and choose - "This day, will I grow?" The best approach? Just make the choice to grow. Don't even question it. Declare it. "Today, I will Grow!"
Let's Grow!
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I changed it today.
The wording suddenly sounded biased toward the negative. Now it says, ..."Grow!...the OPPORTUNITY we're given from birth" and it applies to the individual or business or any other organization.
Now I don't have anything in particular against "challenge" - I actually like the word & what it means to me. Yet depending on context and who you are it may carry a connotation of heaviness. Something which is daunting. Something which must be overcome. Opportunity though, tends to have a more hopeful meaning to most.
It's been said "if you're not growing, you're dying." That's easy to understand. Especially if you think of plants or crops. From that vision it's easy to map it back to our own lives and activities.
It's easy to translate too: Growth is way better than the alternative.
Here at home in Celina, Texas we have several late season plants still growing and blooming such as pumpkins (some of the giant type for October), watermelons (tasted great!), cantaloupe (also great!), mandevilla (stunning) and morning glories (actually no bloom yet).
Every day they reach out a little further. The fruit grows a little bit bigger, toward a day when it will be ready for the business end of things. Were it not for seasons and the shrinking number of the their growing hours, I think the vines would be keep right on growing. Plants don't think about personal growth. They just do it - assuming the right conditions.
Every day we each have the opportunity to reach out a little further, let our dreams & projects grow a little bigger. We can prepare to deliver results. One advantage is we're not constrained by the seasons. We can go right on growing, improving ourselves & producing good things 365 days a year. The other advantage we have, is that conditions around us don't have to be perfect. We can create the conditions for growth right in our own minds.
So, from day 1 of our lives, we have the blessed opportunity for personal growth. Every day we get to ask ourselves and choose - "This day, will I grow?" The best approach? Just make the choice to grow. Don't even question it. Declare it. "Today, I will Grow!"
Let's Grow!