Water The Bamboo® is a metaphor for achievement. When you water giant timber bamboo in the first year, you will not see results. When you water in the second year, you will not see results. When you water in the third year, no results. However, sometime during the fourth or fifth year it will rocket up an astonishing 90 feet in less than 60 days. Do you have that kind of patience to see your vision come true?
What is your bamboo? It would be ridiculous to go to the airport and ask for a ticket to no place in particular. Yet many individuals and teams go through life without clearly articulating where they would like to go. Success eludes many because they never made a decision to state what success looks like in their mind’s eye. All human activity begins as a vision in the mind. Learning to enhance your visualization skills can help you and your team become a constructive force. The mind is a powerful energy source that can trigger any vision. A vision is a way of programming a desired outcome in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious does not differentiate between real and unreal.
A clear vision can:
- Help create energy, enthusiasm, optimism and commitment
- Remove barriers such as doubt, fear and worry
- Stimulate passion for what is possible
- Give courage to keep struggling against all obstacles
- Keep your team focused
Key questions to develop vision:
- Where do we want to go?
- What does success look like?
- What defines our success?
For more information on setting a vision read chapter 2 of Water The Bamboo™: Unleashing The Potential Of Teams And Individuals. Once you and your team are clear about your bamboo, create a plan and Water The Bamboo!
At AquaJogger®, the driving force behind our business is a vision of how water exercise impacts the future of fitness. Greg Bell’s book, Water the Bamboo, certainly echoes the history our company has experienced in our efforts to bring an emerging fitness paradigm to the attention of all the many people who can benefit. As Greg emphasized in his book, it is important that your vision be visible, vivid and viable before you start watering. In other words, don’t waste time watering the weeds, they don’t bear fruit. We have found that once the vision is visible the process of making it vivid and viable presents ongoing challenges that Greg does a masterful job of speaking to in his book. After years of cultivating and watering our bamboo, AquaJogger® is presently looking to join with a strategic partner in harvesting our crop. Every member of our team has found Greg’s book to provide inspiration and to resonate with our quest. I see Water the Bamboo as one of those must read books that is destined to become a classic.
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