Common Craft Blog
Being Lightweight: Planting the Right Plants
By leelefever on November 25, 2008 - 12:20pm
If you don't like yardwork, you have a choice. You can hire gardeners or you can plant things that don't require much care.
This is my way of saying that we all have a choice in how we grow. Because we want Common Craft to stay small, we look at new opportunities in terms of yardwork and ask ourselves - is this going to require gardeners in the future? If so, then maybe we should look for opportunities that are more likely to take care of themselves and allow us to focus on what really makes us excited and happy.
PS- We're signing off on this blog for a little while to spend time with family. Happy Thanksgiving to our fellow Americans!
Your Quote
I had not heard the yard work quote, but I love it. The metaphor has been done time and again, but I just hadn't heard that version of it:)
Keep It Up
Nice picturing your company, need to plant more to grow. and make a root deeper so that any disaster common craft will not easily to destroy. Cheer. AJA Common Craft.
By. Busby
Happy growing
interesting comment. Hope you find the right plants so you'll be back with lots inspiring ideas of for the next spring!
Cheers,
Mira
happy thanks givving to you guys
Iam happy to say "happy thanks giving" to all of you guys!
Nice Break
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. It's nice to have a small, well deserved break once in a while.
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving; Some school friends are LaFever's, perhaps relatives? (Sandy Oregon area). Love your videos :)
I love the way you think :)
I love the way you think :) We should all focus more on what makes us happy in business, the rest will take care of themselves.
make people happy
it is basically a choice on how people deal with his or her life, making happy is a choice.
happy thanksgiving
enjoy life and bring the most out of it, laugh and the world will join you, cry and be sad alone
itiraf
Yes Thats is a good idea.
Happy Holidays!
Hey Lee,
It has almost been a year since I came across your blog and I have enjoyed all the videos and posts about your adventures with your new business. Keep up the good work and I wish you and your family happy holidays!
nice post and Thats is a
nice post and Thats is a good idea.
Enjoy
Enjoy your break & Happy Thanks Giving.
I have admired your work from afar.....hope to keep an eye out for more.
Well deserved
Enjoy your time off, it's well deserved.
Merry Happy Thanks Christmas
Best wishes for you and your wife. Seems to me that you all have had an extraordinary year and I hope that the new year bring even more success. Best Wishes!
Planting the right bulbs you mean
I think your company can expand if there are wider strategic objectives at play.
Right on target
Your Lightweight series is wonderful. My wife and I own a small business, and everything you wrote is amazingly on target and inspirational.
A metaphor for business.
What great metaphor.
I was wondering what a post on gardening was doig on CommonCraft. :) Until I read the entire post.
This can be challenging in small businesses, where we choose attractive, high-maintenance plants. Then refuse to outsource (hire a gardener).
And after several months of neglecting family just to grow the garden, we give up, weeds set in, and there goes another well-meaning project.
I as much as anyone, need to outsource more. :)
Season's greetings, everyone.