I have a little update for you and it’s really just a brag and boast on my part.  I have diligently been taking care of those plants over the last week.  I’m like a little kid to be honest; every morning I wake up to see if there is a sign of life under all that dirt.  I’ve watered them, made sure I brought them in off the porch when it got cold, and cleared off the top of my microwave because that is where they would get the best sunlight in the house.

No one, including myself, thought these plants would sprout.  Talk about a lack of confidence!  But, when you have a track record like mine, coupled with a brown thumb, it’s easy to not have that confidence.

Just to recap, we planted strawberries, grape tomatoes, tomatoes, an oversized cabbage, and sunflowers.  Well, all 5 of my sunflowers have come through the dirt, the cabbage is double the size that it was when we repotted it and there is a new green stalk on the strawberries.  The tomatoes are, well, I’m not quite sure if I messed those up or if I just need to give them a little more time.

Now obviously I didn’t sit down and write this to tell you all about my gardening escapades.  Just like I related them to your business before, I’m going to do it again,

Gardening is new to me.  Business is new to me.  Yes, I’ve been in business for over a year.  Yes, I consider myself successful.  I don’t know everything there is to know.  I still learn on a daily basis and I will continue to learn on a daily basis.

With the planting that I did, I stepped outside of my comfort zone.  I didn’t think I would have any luck with those plants, yet I did it anyway.  People laughed, and with every right.  I’ve killed a cactus!

Regardless of what people said, I still planted.  I followed my boyfriend around the house last night with a pot of strawberries and sunflowers exclaiming “look what I did!”  Silly?  Of course!  But I was proud, so very proud of what I had accomplished.

I do the same thing with my business.  A new client is still a thrill for me and something I’m proud of and if you think I follow him around the house with a signed contract, you’re right.

Perhaps the reason I’ve killed plants in the past is because I didn’t have an interest and know that I will kill them.  I know that I put off this business thing for a long time because I thought that I couldn’t do it.  No confidence.

So maybe I do have a little bit of a green thumb.  I guess the only way to find out is to keep tackling these plants and see what I can do with them.  The same way I need to tackle new challenges in my business.

The worst thing that’s going to happen is that I’m going to kill a plant, and I’ve done that before.  It’s just one of those things, I didn’t know I had it in me.

The only thing between me and a green thumb is me.  And the only thing standing between me and the success of my business is me.

We’ve got just 10 days to the Revolution.  Are you ready?