Planting Seeds Today For The Future Of Your Business
Spring is here, and it’s the season to plant seeds. And I don’t mean for your garden, though you can do that too, here I’m talking about your business.
Your business is much like a tomato plant, it won’t grow overnight because you decided you wanted to have one.
And much like a tomato plant, your business needs care, attention, and love.
If you are here because you want to start a business or you started one but you’re desperate because you don’t see any flowers blooming or roots taking... maybe it’s because you neglected sowing seeds in the spring.
Let me elaborate. Growing a business, like growing anything, takes time. It takes following several steps that you have to take one after another if you want to be properly prepared and one day see results.
Planting seeds for your business can look very different than planting seeds for another business. Maybe your business’ seeds look like networking to find partners and financing, while for someone else’s it looks like getting the proper training, and for others it looks like creating content to assert authority in their field.
Whatever sowing seeds looks like for your business, this is a step you can’t neglect.
For me, sowing seeds looks like writing this blogpost, and sharing my insights, knowledge, and tools, to help other entrepreneurs thrive. It also looks like nurturing my YouTube channel to grow an audience and a community online. But it also looks like getting trained in the specific methods and tools I want to use in my coaching practice.
So that’s what I’m doing.
After the step of sowing seeds comes the step of patience.
Patience is an entrepreneur’s best friend because without patience you won’t be able to make it. If you can’t wait long enough to see the results of your labor come to life, you just won’t see results.
You have to learn to be ok with results taking time to take roots and transform into a seedling.
Once you see a seedling show up, you have to keep sowing, keep working the soil, and keep nourishing the plant, until you get a flower.
What actions can you take today that are going to serve your business tomorrow? What can you do today to ensure a steady growth and success? What can you learn from taking one step after another and playing the patience game?
It’s all up to you, it’s up to you to follow those steps and do the right thing, you have to be able to think of long-term rewards here because short-term gratification won’t build a solid root system for your business, you might get some flowers in the summer, but they won’t make it through the winter.
