The Grass is Always Greener...
Mark Haner
Director, North American Sales @ LinkedIn | Driving growth, culture, and value
As the expression goes,?“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”?I’ll beg to differ however and say,?“The grass is always greener where you water it.”
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A few years ago in the fall, I was working in our front yard on a stretch of lawn I was committed to reviving. Our neighbor is a golf course superintendent at a nice local country club, and he came over to chat as neighbors often do. He started sharing with me some advice on my plan of attack for rejuvenating the stretch of lawn and said,?“the work you do to your lawn now, is the lawn you’ll have in the spring.”?Typical advice from a caring old neighbor, but this got me thinking – isn’t so much of what we do now, the cause of our downstream reality??
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It's the mid-point of another quarter and many are charting a course to the end of the half. I know I am! The actions we take today professionally; the account nurturing, the territory re-planning, the items we prioritize and those we don't, the habits we set in motion – they all are what drive our results in months or quarters to come. This is also true in the habits we take in configuring our days. Do we make a habit of strong routines that allow us to invest in client outreach, updating our CRM, revising partner commitments, or do we make a habit of catching up on all those things only when they feel broken, challenged, or needed? ?Playing the long game and setting the healthy habits in place allows us to reap the spoils of our labor down the road. The beauty of this is that?the wins will keep coming as long as the patterns repeat themselves and actually become much easier over time!?In fact, Lao Tzu said?“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
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As we set (or reset) our groove for the rest of the half, let’s think & act like my neighbor Dan – the habits and investments we make today are what pay us tomorrow.?
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P.s. I'm still trying to get that patch of grass the way I want it???
Managing Director, Data Enablement
1 年The grass is always greener! [Especially when you have 500 gallons of water in an inflatable in your yard]
Senior Enablement Manager @ Contentsquare | President's Club x3 | Bringing bossy (but loving), big sister energy to enablement because because I love the players and the game
1 年I often repeat that Lao Tzu quote to myself. It's fit advice for a Monday, for the first day of school (which it is in my town today!), for the easy days, and the hard days. Thanks, Mark Haner!