When you prune a rose brush in the right manner it promotes growth and is what produces flowers in the spring. Meaning if you want a rose bush to grow and if you want beautiful flowers, you have to prune. Sharpen the pruning shears and cut that rose bush back. You just have to do it. If you do not, then no growth and no flowers.
This is a metaphor for life.
Overtime you get burdened down by things that you collect in your life. Responsibilities. Concerns. Obligations. Many are important, for sure. However, as time progresses some of them are not that important anymore. My excitement over one hobby may just not be the same as it was. Perhaps your teenager was a big part of your life, but they have moved on to college. Maybe it is time to adapt and refocus energies? Pruning is a necessary and natural process even though it may appear on the onset to be scary or intimidating. Clearing things out, cleaning things up, cutting off all the loose ends can help you re prioritize and focus on what is the most important you.
I think this applies to business as well. A healthy organization needs pruning in much the same manner. We erroneously think that growth must be continual, when in fact it is cyclical. In the ebb and flow of the economy, you must also learn to adjust, adapt, and learn to trim where needed.
Guy Reams
