What are you cutting out and pruning to make room for new growth?
Programs? Old habits? Content that no longer serves as it did? Language that needs updating? Burdensome processes?
Cut it back and see all the new growth waiting to spring forth.
And there may not be room for all of it – so be selective about what you truly want to grow. Cut back and pull out the extra that keeps you and your team from thriving.
Fairly obvious, I must be working in the garden and yard this weekend.
Vivid reminder.
Gardening always offers up analogies. There is so much green ready to appear as I clear out the dead leaves and stalks of perennials, cut back the roses, trim the grasses, and pull out weeds. The growth is waiting for space and attention.
Now for choices. What do we want to give room and water? What works best? What serves our goals for our birds, bees, and personal peace and joy?
Spring cleaning the yard means that sometimes even things that have life in them need to go to make room for specific plants to take off.
At work, cutting back our services, clearing out the dead parts of our processes, and making room for what we want to thrive. Growing space for what serves ARTiculate, our team, and our clients best.
Oh, sometimes it’s hard. Something is green and growing already – and it is not serving the highest and best good.
You? What are you culling, pruning, or clipping back to encourage growth?
Hilary Blair is a leadership keynote speaker based out of Denver, CO, and is the co-founder of ARTiculate: Real & Clear. She is also a highly regarded, actor, improviser, facilitator, voice-over artist, and voice expert coach. Contact us today to learn more.
