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How A Tree Can Help You Grow Your Business |
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A tree is a natural example of a perfect business. It energises us with
fresh oxygen while recycling our waste air. It absorbs energy directly
from the sun while we still have to digest food. It aligns with the
forces of nature. Imagine your business is like a tree. Is your
business growing each year and producing ripe results? Or is it stunted
and withering.
Here are some ways that you can regenerate your life and business using the wisdom of a seed, a tree and a forest.
1. The Seed That Grows A Forest.
Look at a seed. Perhaps an apple seed. It has an entire apple tree
enfolded within it. This one seed can start a tree. Perhaps a whole
forest. Now apply the same thinking to your business. What seed vision
animates your business? Where is the heart in your business? What makes
it breath and live? The answer is YOU. Your business vision must
support your life vision. What is my life vision, you ask. Hmmm.
Think like a seed again. Design a lifestyle that you desire. Envision
your life in all its many colours, shapes and stages of growth. Create
wonderful possibilities. Charge this vision with good feelings. What
you feel becomes real. Sow this seed vision within your heart. It will
soon grow upwards into your head and outwards beyond your body.
2. The Roots Produce The Fruits.
Whatever you sow, it will grow. A seed grows a complete root system
before it breaks through the soil surface. Now if you planted cabbage
seeds when you really wanted apples then you will experience a very
different result. The results in your life and business are like
fruits. They can be traced back to your original seed thoughts. These
original seed thoughts grew deep roots. They formed your beliefs about
life and business. Your beliefs branched into behaviours. Your
behaviours formed habits. Your habits created results. Your results
created your life. If you have a major problem area in your life then
this is just a result. It could be the result of a limiting memory
planted many years ago. For example, a barking dog can still cause
anxiety in an adult who remembers being bitten as a child. Certain
words capture the power of our beliefs. For example, say the word,
STOP, 10 times with feeling. Note the physical sensations in your body.
Now say the word, GO, 10 times with feeling. Note the physical
difference between these two words. The lesson here is to choose words
that cause a positive vibration in your body. Changing your vibrations
can help to eliminate old root beliefs by shaking them loose from the
soil of your mind.
3. Turn Weeds and Toxic Thoughts Into Fertiliser.
The success of your business depends on increasing energy levels and
removing blockages. So start to clear out any weeds. I call WEEDS -
Wasted Effort Energy Drains. Find all the weeds in your life and
business. Simply make a list of the 10 most terrible negatives in your
life. On a separate paper, write the complete opposite of these
negatives. Find their positive equivalents. Like turning your weeds
into flowers. Now tear up your negative list and ceremonially burn it.
Like burning old weeds in the garden. Now focus on your positive list.
Use this list as seeds for positive growth. It is important that you
raise your life-force, your energy levels. Weeds, pests and toxic
thoughts drain your energy and stunt your growth.
4. Money Is Just A Fruit Full of Energy.
Money is just another form of energy. It is like a ripe fruit. We
desire the juicy taste and sweet joy of the fruit. Rather than just the
fruit itself. Similarly with money. We want the freedom and joy that
money brings. Rather than just lots of money. So focus on all the good
things money can create. Imagine you have sufficient money or fruit to
feed yourself and a 1000 other hungry mouths. You help them grow their
fruit trees so that they can feed others. It is no point in having
basket-loads of money yet you are still poor in heart and mind. It is
like the greedy king who kept all his ripe, golden fruit in his kingdom
for himself. His joy was short-lived when his fruit all started to rot.
So the lesson is to be wealthy in mind, heart and bank account.
5. Marketing Lessons of A Tree.
What value does your business provide to the market? Who is your
market? Think like a native tree in a forest. How does it attract
birds, bees and other animals? Does it use nuts to attract squirrels or
shiny red berries for the birds? Does it have bright flowers with a
beautiful fragrance to attract bees? The marketing lessons of tree are
about sending out good vibrations that attract your preferred
customers. Using light, sound, touch, smell, taste and feeling to form
a connection. What subconscious messages are you sending out about your
business? Your customer's subconscious antennae are picking up signals
all the time. Make sure you are releasing a positive message like a
flower releasing a beautiful perfume.
So look to nature when seeking new inspiration and ideas. There are
many business masters within the classrooms of a forest. So start with
the teachings of a tree. In fact, grow one. Grow several. It all starts
with a single seed.
Hirini Reedy is a native author, poet, civil
engineer, retired military officer, martial arts black belt, NLP master
and internet entrepreneur.
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