Not growing weeds
After a week with tons of meetings in the scale-up world of how to create growth in your business as well as how to pivot into growth in hard times, I'm tapped-out on growth strategies. Being a meditation teacher I often talk about making the time for a practice and all the benefits it might give you. Even so (with full respect) it is hard to carve out the time. But if we step back and think about it for a moment- what happens when we don't take our time for grounding and want to grow anyway? Personally, I think we end up creating a world full of weeds.
However, we are now forced to streamline, look at cost and energy spending. Ask questions like; is what we do sustainable in the long term? Do we grow with beauty and not just to take up space? I'm a firm believer in that the best place for growth is when we have the capacity to ground and grow simultaneously. I think if anything good can come out of a recession it is the cutting of weeds. Possibly this refocus from growth to survival will lead to a more sustainable long term growth. Like Yvon Chouinard said “It is easier to try to be the best small company than the best big company” (yes that is the legend that just gave away his not so small company.”)
As much as I'm talking about the world, I'm also talking out loud about my own life. I'm in the process of streamlining what I do- how can I do that from a grounded place? Where do my contributions give more to the world than they take? I'm reading the book “company of one” by Paul Jarvis and it has just added fuel to my fire on this journey. I'm a business advisor, (soon to be) coach therapist, meditation teacher, and a self taught silversmith. More importantly I'm a human, mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend. Can I streamline all the different parts of me, stay grounded in myself and grow beauty in the world? I’m not sure yet but I'm sure willing to give it a go.
Afterall, there is at least one thing that we cannot scale and that is time. So, how can you cut weeds in your life or business and focus on growing that really beautiful oak tree?
Ps. judging by this text it is no surprise our logo is the cross section of a tree trunk.
Written by: Alexandra