Business Lessons from A Quiet Gardener

 The various parallels in the garden metaphor to life and growth and working with people are all valuable.  The one that stands out for me is "the gardener's work is a life of care...we nurture, encourage, fertilize - and prune when necessary - while being respectful of the true and wild nature of all things."  That is the way of living for me to cultivate in my life and I am sure will blossom into happy results.  In reading this piece, I also find myself thinking that in gardening like in living I control the gardening/cultivating that I do --I  have no control over the outcome.   I can cultivate the soil, persistently care for the plants, nurture, encourage, fertilize, and prune, all of which probably increases the chances of a healthy garden, but there is no guarantee of a beautiful blossom or harvest.  Gardening is its own reward -- a beautiful blossom or harvest is another reward that may or may not happen.