…the lesson(s) being taught are irrelevant.
Life constantly teaches us with ups and downs, sunrises and sunsets, waves crashing in and waves pulling out, shooting stars and those hung frozen in the cosmos and there is no pass or fail test. Only two requirements: look and listen.
Ask for openness. Whimsy swirls in fresh air.
Ask to be sponge-like. Soak it in.
Ask for availability. Open > Closed.
Ask, and it will be given to you.
At all costs, be a friend.
We need this more than any other label you can earn, learn, choose, or become.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” C.S. Lewis
Few things are as effective for increasing empathy, obtaining enlightenment, and securing a plan of action for our lives, relationships, and businesses as swapping shoes with another.
Let’s not make this more difficult than it should be.
…an opportunity to contribute.
…a chance to connect.
…a moment to lend a hand.
…a time to change something or someone.
Leadership senses these times, moments, chances, and opportunities.
Tomorrow the possibility will be no different from today. We only must invoke our senses again and again.
Feelings > Facts.
Making notes tonight in preparation for a message I get to share in the transitioning colors of Vermont next week.
Here are some….
This life finds us hovering above the soil that holds the potential for gardens of growth, lessons learned, attention to detail, awareness, and appreciation of beauty. For some reason I can’t rid my thoughts of the law of the harvest and the law of compensation these days.
You can’t separate the soil and gardener from of the garden itself. Without each other, the garden doesn’t exist.
How does your garden grow and grow well? It begins with a gardener that is fully present and fully aware of his responsibility and duty to be gardening in the first place.
Weeds are synonymous with noise and SPAM.
Beauty is produced. Beauty is bloomed. Beauty bursts through the dirt after a seed is sown.
To be in continued…
Ashton.Gustafson 
