A business left idle fills with weeds like a neglected garden. Without continuous growth and intentional effort, problems multiply and value withers. Every owner must set ongoing goals or watch their enterprise slowly die.
Not growing means slowly dying? 100%. I don't remember where I read this because I'd like to give credit to it, but it's called the garden box theory, and it's not mine. I remember reading it in a book. Think about a garden box. What happens to that garden box if you leave it alone? It's a piece of land, it's dirt. If I leave it alone and I come back, it will be overgrown with weeds. So leaving it alone actually didn't mean that I returned to a garden box that had nothing in it, it led to me having an abundance of weeds. There's this element of life that is just natural atrophy. If you don't intentionally try to grow, weeds are going to pop up. And so all the healthy stuff that should live in a garden box is slowly going to die. That's why I believe every business owner owes it to themselves to constantly have a goal to continue to grow, because if you don't, you will eventually start slowly dying, as Dan Martell is explaining here.
