Tall trees grow slow

Sometimes it gets to me seeing how everyone’s crushing it in my timeline.

Especially on low morale days when I’m not in the best of mindsets, when every thing is a struggle, and my inner voice is beating myself up all over again.

Those days I feel like giving up.

I know it intellectually that everyone’s running their own race, that there’s no need for comparison. But when you’re immersed in such influence day in day out—especially folks who started way later but are progressing way faster—all it takes is a tiny leak, a small lapse in mindfulness for the influence to get through.

Inspiration can flip to demotivation in a flash.

Then I see Peter Askew’s “tall trees grow slow”.

I build RanchWork.com calmly. Bootstrapped. Solo. I don’t “hustle”. I don’t “crush it”. This project revolves around me, not me around it. One thing I do: show up, every, day.

🌲Tall trees grow slow🌲

What a refreshing point of view. A timely reminder.

Aye. I can live with that.

Tall trees grow to their own light.
Tall trees help other flora and fauna grow.
Tall trees have deep roots that anchors them in.

Calm. Contented. Confident.

He talks more about his calm approach:

I tend to approach online businesses this way. Not intentionally – I just found myself on this path. Find a good domain name; build a product/service; see if it solves a problem & makes people happy; and only then attempt to make it profitable. Purpose always comes first. As does contentment. Revenue always comes second. Sure, this approach has bitten me in the ass before, but I don’t care. When it’s worked, the results are wondrous. And this project checked those boxes.

And while RanchWork.com isn’t a flashy VC funded endeavor, or even some high flying 6-figure revenue generator, it’s not that I don’t care. The site doesn’t care. Cause it’s too busy. Working. Quietly… as nice, humble internet businesses.

Working quietly as a nice, humble internet business.

I like that.

I want that.

I will be that.