DON’T DIG THE GROUND EVERYDAY

Imagine you are a gardener. You have planted a full bed of flowers and nicely watered them in the morning. 

The sun shines and the soil looks rich. As you go to bed, you cannot sleep and have a nagging question – “ will the flowers come out ?”. The next day you decide to find out and dig open the ground to see the seeds. They are very much there and nothing much seems to have moved. You are disappointed. You repeat this every few days. After a month you give up on the idea and move on to something else.

The gardener here is the insecure boss, the seeds are your team and projects. The water is the encouragement and the support and the constant desire to dig is deep insecurity.

The insecurity killed the team. It killed their freedom, their initiative, their desire to do grow. The constant overlooking, interference, endless follow ups and questions from the boss made them all question their ability to deliver and grow.

Don’t dig the ground after you plant the seed. What should you do then you may ask

Resist the temptation to dig the ground. Seeds need support and patience to grow. Have faith – as you leave the seeds free to grow they will grow. It is their very nature to grow. Life grows with support and encouragement, not with micro management.

Keep on sowing the seeds of growth. 

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