Comments on: Thrive, Even When Odds Are Against You

By: Capturing Your Creativity | World's Greatest T-Shirt

Capturing Your Creativity | World's Greatest T-Shirt — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:02:31 +0000

[...] a garden flower growing in an unlikely place (a crack in the pavement), I wrote this post titled, Thrive, Even When Odds Are Against You. I wrote the words, but nature provided the spark of inspiration that I needed to get [...]

By: Where Do Your Post Ideas Come from? : WritingThoughts

Where Do Your Post Ideas Come from? : WritingThoughts — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:22:23 +0000

[...] Random Occurrences–I can’t help it. Many of my posts do come from random things that happen to me. Often, these things are totally unrelated to business or freelancing on the surface, but if I think about them closely I can see a parallel. An example of this is when I saw a flower growing out of concrete. [...]

By: Don

Don — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:25:34 +0000

Great story one that I can see myself reading very so often when tough times loom. Thank you for the inspiration! I think as entrepreneurs we tend to fight change because we follow only what we know, like the flower, your roots must travel uncharted paths to get what your really want.

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:28:37 +0000

Very inspirational post- Thanks! I loved hearing the story about the flower- reminded me of a country song where they said something like this!

By: salwa

salwa — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:37:21 +0000

Great post. Thank you! The most important thing, in my opinion, is that can-do attitude. Anything hard is worth doing.

By: Laura Spencer

Laura Spencer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:26:54 +0000

Thanks Writer Dad!

(By the way, I took a peek at your blog and it looks good. I’ll definitely be back.)

By: Joe Norton

Joe Norton — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:40:23 +0000

Very similar to Tupac’s “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” but still a great analogy.

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:09 +0000

That’s a beautiful analogy. I believe that no matter what barriers are placed before our horizons, as long as we’re willing to what it takes to cross them, we will succeed. If that flower in the parking lot didn’t let a sea of concrete stop it from living it’s best life, why should we let any of the trivial things life throws our way stop us?