Many of the resources you utilize for business success aren’t on your payroll, but they’re on your team. They are integral to your business success.

As a leader, it’s important to focus on what you have and what you want. With this perspective you can then take action and begin building a roadmap for the vision of where you want your business to go to and grow.

Tom Rath, author of Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams and Why People Follow, says, “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.”

Defining and sharing the vision of your organization is critical to your success.

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot about timing. Planting seeds is about timing. My dad, the farmer, taught me that.

Winter is a season of preparation, an opportunity to plan for next season’s crop before planting. It’s wise to intentionally declare a season of preparation when you’re in a time of change in your life, also. A season of preparation allows you to get intentional about what you want in your life.

In gardening, as well as farming, you can’t enjoy the crop without preparing, planting, watering, weeding…and having some inputs from outside yourself – sun, soil and rain. While to the untrained eye, it looks like nothing is going on during winter, anyone connected to gardening or farming knows this is a busy season as you prepare and anticipate the coming year’s crop.

Most of us, when thinking about our future, dream of where we want to go – what we want to add to our life to make it more of what we’ve always dreamed of. However, there’s another side to the story.

Identifying Your Personal Brand is critical to finding your space to thrive. It’s finding your sweet spot, being in the zone, getting into the flow, doing your genius work.