Week 7 Reviewing Results

Results and Roses 

By Edgar Albert Guest 

The man who wants a garden fair, 

Or small or very big, 

With flowers growing here and there, 

Must bend his back and dig. 

The things are mighty few on earth 

That wishes can attain. 

Whate'er we want of any worth 

We've got to work to gain. 

It matters not what goal you seek 

Its secret here reposes: 

You've got to dig from week to week 

To get Results or Roses.

Perspective

We are entering a stage of reviewing results. This is a time to reflect on your focus areas and stretches and to notice what’s growing on the vine. 

Today, I was meeting with a person named Christian. He’s a small business owner and is starting a new relationship. He said he was on the call because many people close to him have repeatedly said similar things like, “I don’t really know you” or “I wish you could be more vulnerable.” But he feels like he feels and holds a lot! And I trusted him when he said that. He presented from an open-hearted place - a person who wanted and knew he needed to do something but didn’t know exactly what to do. 

He hasn’t joined the program yet, but he shared something about his relationship with anxiety that I am sure will align with most high-performing executives who show up for this work. Allow me to try to recreate what he said: