The spark* blog
Thoughtful insights for socially responsible entrepreneurs who give a ****! Honest conversations about impact, wellbeing and creating sustainable change.
Are all those courgettes?
The packet had fifteen seeds in it, so I planted fifteen seeds. A quarter of everything I could grow that year went into a vegetable I ended up leaving on a footpath for strangers. A client who’d sold her business and given herself a year out made the same mistake with her time, filling it with everything she wanted in slivers too thin to get into. This is about the difference between deciding what you want and deciding how much of it you want at once.
Three steps back
Most founder advice assumes you’ve got enough in reserve to act on it. Often you don’t. This piece follows three founders who worked out that their real task was building the conditions underneath the work - recovery time, a space of their own, people actually building something similar - the unglamorous layer everything else sits on.