Growing

Wildflowers need not be told where to grow, they just do. One of the many things I enjoy about living in the country is the fact that wildflowers abound and their bold colors just pop out of nowhere just because they can.

The truth is, we do not determine whom our parents will be, where we will be born, or what conditions we will be predisposed with, we just show up. The interesting thing is that the conditions around us indeed dictate certain things but, ultimately the choice to grow and thrive is purely our will to do so. In business, we are not all given the same things (start up capital, ideas, locations, customer bases, technology, etc....) and therefore, we cannot expect our business to be like anyone else's. We get the cards we are dealt and we make the choice to thrive in the place we were planted. How we grow determines whether or not we get another season like the hearty perennial or whether we will fade away whence the Summer goes like the annual.