Tag Archive for: work
Your true potential
Too much to do?
Marathons and Missions – the same, but different

Honesty
What does it mean to be honest?
I was asked back again the next summer season.
How can you be completely honest?
New beginnings
I know I canโt turn back time, but this I do know…… itโs never too early and itโs never too late for a new beginning.
“Four young men sit by the bedside of their dying father. The old man, with his last breath, tells them there is a huge treasure buried in the family fields. The sons crowd around him crying, “Where, where?” but it is too late. The day after the funeral and for many days to come, the young men go out with their picks and shovels and turn the soil, digging deeply into the ground from one end of each field to the other. They find nothing and bitterly disappointed, abandon the search……
…๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฒ๐
๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ.”
– As told by Benjamin Zander in “The Art of Possibility”
Perhaps now is a good time to refine your plans for future harvests.
Is it time to start and dig a little deeper perhaps?
What new beginnings lie ahead for you?
Work
“There is no substitute for hard work” – so said Thomas Edison.
It was in my childhood that I started to learn the value of work. Throughout much of my school years, I was up early to deliver the morning papers. No matter the weather, I was up and out on my round by 6 am.ย An early rise has been the pattern of my entire life.
Even before my early departure, I remember, mum or dad being up to clean out the coal fire, remove all the ash and set it for the day ahead.
There is a certain charm in a real coal fire, but there is also a lot of hard work to enjoy those benefits.
“Work is honourable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. Work is the equaliser for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance” – J. Richard Clarke.
No matter what we do, or who we work for, we should give of our best – always.
By finding something that you really love to do, working will then not be a chore or a burden, it will be a joy.
I’ve seen work without success, but never success without work.
Keep stoking the flames of your own coal fires of life, a strong work ethic, will always keep the fire burning.
Promise
Harvesting
What we sow, is what we reap.
Anything of great value and worth in life, takes persistence, patience and perseverance, as well as great attention to detail in order to ensure a great harvest.
Growing anything takes time. With any crop the process of fertilising and tilling the ground, planting seeds, weeding, feeding and regular watering will eventually lead to a great harvest. Sometimes bad weather can damage or destroy crops too and so a great deal of preparation is called for in order protect the harvest. I’m always amazed that one tiny seed, can multiply itself so many times over to produce a bounteous harvest.
So it is in life.
As a coach I work with people who are faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. And yet, over time as we work together in planting new seeds, or work through a process that takes persistence, patience and perseverance – these challenges start to diminish, simply through the law of the harvest – reaping what you sow. Frequently, its never easy, in fact, its often difficult to face up to the challenges. Yet, with hard work and effort, I wholeheartedly believe, that through time, with the right help and using the correct tools, all of our harvests can be great ones, no matter how tough it may seem.
What will you sow today?