Today I’m soaking ranunculus… because I want them to bloom in late spring and early summer. I am not starting seeds for our fields in earnest quite yet, because I want Triple Wren’s fields to look bountiful… in August and September. Since we have chosen to focus on farm events and nursery products more than making hundreds of bouquets every week, I don’t really need to focus on masses of early season cut flowers. In these ways and SO many more, the rhythms of our farm life are dramatically different now than they were for me even 5 years ago. And do you know what? That’s good.
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how treacherous the comparison game is on social media, and how even though I’m confident in my plan, and even though I have more than a decade of a successful flower farming under my belt, as I scroll and see other farmers bumping up baby flowers, harvesting winter-grown blooms, and starting their seasons solidly, it’s easy for me to start to feel like I should be doing what they are doing!
Tomorrow I’m beginning a series of posts about how we “Plan for Success” here at Triple Wren, but first I want to talk about how I define the word success. For my purposes (and I’d argue, by any proper definition!), success is setting a goal, making a plan to meet your goal, and doing your dead-level best to implement your plan to meet your goal.
Success is setting a goal, making a plan to meet your goal, and doing your dead-level best to implement your plan to meet your goal.
Sarah Pabody
Success does NOT mean making your life or business look like someone else’s. It does NOT mean producing an Instagram facade that makes others think your life or business meets aesthetic expectations, and it definitely does NOT mean working yourself into the ground to achieve your own (or others’) unrealistic expectations.
If you’re struggling with this, let me encourage you to take some time and evaluate your goals and dreams for this season. Write them down, and spell out the “whys” for your goals. Own them. Make sure you’re in love with them, and then get ready to see how we turn our goals (you know, the ones that are right for *us!*) into plans and then into reality here at the farm!
Other Posts in This Series
- Making a Plan for Success in Your Cut Flower Garden
- Push Through Fear and Make Your Gardening Plan
- A Brief History of Triple Wren’s Humble Beginnings
- Your Reason for Growing Flowers Matters
- Our Bouquet Palette for 2022
- Start Big and Work Small for Successful Garden Planning
- Don’t Fall Into the Trap of Trying to Grow Everything
- Use a Spreadsheet to Make Detailed Plans for Your Flower Garden
- Cut Flower Garden Planning Inspiration