Today I had the honor of speaking & training with a team of business owners around the ideas of 'Success' and 'Winning' built around ideas from Coach John Wooden's Success Pyramid and the famous business book, Good to Great by Jim Collins.
I had asked the crew to discuss the elements of success that John Wooden loads into his 'Pyramid of Success' when I overheard Larry say, "I just hoe my own row." And, I gotta tell you that idea struck me as one of the most profound success principles of all time. Larry has been in business for over 45 years and does some farming on the side and obviously his metaphor comes from tending a crop in a garden or on a farm. It throws back to a day when farmers weeded and prepped the garden plot with hand tools like a hoe.
What Larry was sharing that is that he could never control the competition and he couldn't make anyone else succeed or fail. But, what he could do was do his very best every day and tend to the work that was in front of him effectively. That's a principle that we can all pack around and live by, 'Just hoe your own row.'
Another Larryism from the day that's equally powerful, "everyday is a school day" referencing that everyday he learns from others and gets better at what he's doing.
Now, that's good stuff!
Have a great day,
Jeff
Jeff Fuson -Point Leader of Phos Church near Louisville Kentucky -Leadership Keynote Speaker -Husband / Daddy -Missional Church Planter
The Life Purpose Guy -- helping Entrepreneurial Christ Followers Bring Good Things to Life
No comments:
Post a Comment