You can’t change the fruit without changing the root. Stephen Covey
Great thought from Mr. Covey. I think sometimes we are looking for results or impact but get frustrated because we are not seeing the results or impact we were looking for. Did you ever stop to consider you might be reaping what you have been sowing? The fruit you are getting is from the roots you are growing! If we want upbeat, excited team members is that who we are. If we want people to passionately own and push their area, are we creating the environment of support, ownership and appreciation?
You can only reap what you sow. You can only produce the fruit from the types of roots you have planted. If you have been planting a poor environment, culture, marriage, parenting or relationships, let’s start digging up some of those old roots and planting new seeds and growing new roots!
Homework: Let’s take an hour or two this week and write down and outline what we would like to see. What results, what environment, what attitudes, what relationships and then begin to work on ourselves to start creating those results by changing us. We change the seeds we plant and the roots we grow, we change our results!
You can’t change the fruit without changing the roots!