#Deliberate Effort

Cultivating Gardens: Beyond Ambition and Intention

Ultimately, Bailey’s words offer broader wisdom for life’s endeavors. The disciplines of patience, close attention, and humble acceptance of nature's limits do not just yield healthy plants; they cultivate character. Each garden, then, becomes a classroom where the rewards of committed effort—and the pitfalls of mere ambition or intent—are made vividly real, providing insight with each season’s cycle. [...]

Pearls Don't Lie on the Seashore. If You Want One, You Must Dive for It — Chinese Proverb

The proverb promotes an attitude of taking initiative. It suggests that waiting for things to come to you, like expecting pearls to wash up on a seashore, will yield little in comparison to taking decisive action. [...]

Great Things Are Not Done By Impulse, But By A Series of Small Things Brought Together - Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh, a renowned painter, exemplified this philosophy in his art. His works, known for their detail and complexity, were created through careful, methodical effort rather than impulsive strokes. [...]