Welcome again to another edition of Mindset Monday. Today we’re talking about the concept of “Grow Where You Are Planted.”
I first heard this term coined by Dani Johnson. If you don’t know who she is, then my guess is you’re brand new to the home business arena.
I first met Dani about 7 years ago when our team started using her training. See we were missing an important piece of what it really takes to build a successful home business. That piece was a duplicatable training system.
We knew that we could bring people into our business, but the retention rate was pretty low. I believed in the products we were promoting at the time, but we were doing all the trainings. And if you’ve been around for a while building any kind of business then you know that people join people, but the system trains them for you.
So Dani Johnson was our trainer. All we did was bring people to her events and her calls and our teams grew like crazy. In fact I tossed about 10K of my own money to follow Dani for about a year. More info about Dani can be found at Dani Johnson.
I’ll tell you some of the other great lessons about Dani and her trainings later. But for now lets dive into today’s Mindset Monday.
Mindset Monday – Grow Where You Are planted
Watch the video and then lets chat about what this concept means to you…
Quick fun story…
Don’t be a crow. I heard this on a tv show some time back.
There was this crow who wanted more. He liked his kin folks sure enough, but wanted to be like the peacock, whose feathers are bright and wonderful.
So he got a bunch of used peacock feathers and dress up to look the part. He strutted over to the other peacocks and was shocked when they grabbed all his fake feathers and shunned him saying “You are not a peacock!”
Shameful he walked back to his fellow crows and was shunned yet again. They said. “You are no longer one of us.”
I’m sure you can find the moral of the story right? Be yourself, be true to who you are. Don’t try and be someone else. This fits with today’s Mindset Monday as we explore the concept of growing where you are planted.
Make the most of what you’ve been given so far and you shall be given much more.
Ken Pickard
The Network Dad
P.S. how does this concept of “Grow Where You Are Planted” fit you? Have you witnessed any aha moments in your marketing journey where others could use this advice?
Hi Ken,
To me a mentor is like a therapist. A mentor needs to guide you and a good one will help you find out from within where your passions lie.
To grow where you are planted to me, means that you cannot emulate another person. We need to do a little soul searching and find out what exactly we are good at and perfect it to become a leader.
I am great at communicating and love to socialize with people. That’s my strong point. Others, like my husband, are not so social, but work through the back end in marketing.
Bottom line, we need to identify our strengths and run with it.
Thanks Ken,
Donna
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Hi, Ken,Great point! I love Dani Johnson too! It was a shame that when I tapped into her training, none of my team members were ready to plug in her First Steps to Success. I congratulate you on your success, Ken!You are spot on about being ourselves! We all have the GREATNESS in us, regardless of what background we are from, what type of personality that is uniquely ours!Great sharing, Ken the Network Dad!Viola Tam – The Business Mum
Hey Ken,
That use to be me a l-o-n-g time ago. I use to want to be like others until I learned that I’m just fine the way I am.
I wanted to be at a different place but it took all that personal development for me to realize that like you said Ken, our mentor’s are suppose to empower us to be the people we were born to be. Sometimes we need that direction and advice to pull out of us what we aren’t aware even exists.
I love what you said about growing where we are planted. Oh boy, how true is that.
Thanks for sharing this Ken and welcome back. Miss you!
~Adssrienne
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Ken, First off I want to compliment you totally on this article, and the video is awesome! Your views on \”Just being yourself\” gives a wonderful picture of what kind of leader you really are. I notice you are in Tribe pro also, I need to get more active with my account there for sure. Thanks for thesharing the post.
Hey Ken
Such great advice. I think coming on line makes so many of us lose ourselves at sometime. I know I have sure jumped around and tried too many things.
Grow where you are planted – such cool words. I reckon I am planted right now:-)
Great to see you on video Ken and those pics of your kids when they were young are awesome.
Sue
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Hi Ken,
So true, being all over the place wont’ work. A lot of newbies are doing this. I’ve seen them before my own eyes, they’re trying something for a month or so and when they feel that it’s not going fast enough they move on to something else.
Having a coach is very important, indeed, but at the end of the day, YOU need to take the action. NO coach can change your life if you don’t do your own home work. As I always tell my clients, it’s all an inside job.
Thanks for this Ken
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