Growth symbolises activity, optimism, innovation and renewed energy. It's essence is best captured by the season of spring and element of wood.
We most often experience the excitement of growth at the beginning of a project when:
- ideas are bubbling
- possibilities are invented
- insights are shared
- enthusiasm and momentum collide in a flurry of action.
It's here you begin to bring the dream to reality.
Trophies of achievement
Internal growth is ultimately reflected by what we manifest on the outside. Indeed it can be measured by the trophies of achievement that stare back at us daily; not from a fireplace but in the responses, results and relationships staring us squarely in the eye in all areas of life.
"A has been is someone who was once successful but who no longer has any credentials for the present day. Wilbur and Orville Wright would hardly remember their first successful flight if they were alive today to watch the satellite leaving its pad on its way to Mars or Jupiter. As important as the Wright Brothers were to our history, time and change have passed by their success. They would be the first to admit it. The self motivater has a thirst for growth. They realize that growth means change and change involve risks, stepping from the known into the unknown" as understood by George Shinn.
Epoch or atrophy?
Consider that everything in the universe is either growing or dying. In your business or life, what do you choose? Are you ready to break the shackles of normality and sameness to adventure into the unknown?
