How A Tree
Can Help You Grow Your Business
by Hirini Reedy
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.
Copyright © 2004 Hirini Reedy
Hirini Reedy is a native author, poet,
civil engineer, retired military officer, martial arts black belt, NLP
master and internet entrepreneur. He shows people how to integrate ancient
wisdom with modern success principles using SIMPLE TEACHINGS. Learn more
at
http://www.maori-secrets.com
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