You know, I don’t just love the way flowers look (and I do love that…): I love what they have to teach about becoming whoever it is we want to be, and however it is we want to be in the world. In my case, it was about choosing freedom and a new way of life and boldly taking the risks necessary to make that happen; the lessons themselves turned out to be about leadership, persistence, and what it takes to succeed.

Gardens Hold Secrets To Leadership & Success

Last year I made two life-changing moves: First, I purchased and moved into a “fixer” row-home and garden on Capitol Hill (DC). You see, I have a crazy passion for rehabbing old houses. Second, I left my secure but no-longer-fired-up-for-it nonprofit management career to become an Internet entrepreneur. On this one I may have been just plain “crazy” because I had NO experience with either the Internet or marketing.

As it has turned out, those two life-themes have been profoundly intertwined over the last 12 months or so and I can’t help but make note of the way that creating a garden from scratch, paralleled creating an entirely new way of life and learning to work online from home–also from scratch.

I will be sharing more thoughts, lessons and reflections on this over the summer of 2010–my second full summer in these new places in my life. Home, garden, re-connecting with my inner entrepreneur at age 56, developing a skill set that I didn’t know existed–all of these things have enriched my life immensely.

Focus And Appreciation Are Key To Learning

The greatest enrichment of all, though, is the awesome and humbling way in which the choices and changes that I made personally–and out of self-interest–have led others who’ve come in contact with me online, to discover and create the same kinds of abundance and change in their own lives.

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Be amazed and amazing today–and everyday!