It takes time

Nobody sees a flower- really- it is so small it takes time- we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe

I read this quote today and think about building a business.
It takes time. Patience. Persistence. Fearlessness. Courage.

I've learned first-hand about the courage it takes to go against the crowd.

We all talk about wanting to get out of the "Rat Race" or for the modernists, "The Matrix." Deciding to do your own thing is very risky, yet I think it is the essence of human nature.

We have all fallen far from our nature. And why? How? What has caused us to stray? You can decide those factors for yourself, because our experiences differ in some respects, but most times, they are the same. We simply experience those differences at varying times, but the lessons are the same.

Our true nature calls to us. You know her very well...that creative, original one within. She calls to us saying just as Janet Jackson once sang, "Come back to me...I'm begging you, please...come back to me...I want you to...come back to me..."