{Jealousy Stands in the Way of Success}

Often in life we read and see around us, people that always criticize and blame others for their failure.

As MaryEllen best described it: 'Eliminate The Jealousy Factor And Success Will Follow' ←click for link to her article.

The Success Indicator ←click for link

by MaryEllen Tribby

Successful People: Compliment - Forgive others - Accept responsibility for their failures - Keep a journal - Want others to succeed - Keep a 'to-be' list - Set goals and develop life plans - Continuously learn - Operate from a transformational perspective - Keep a 'to-do/project' list - Embrace change - Exude joy - Share information and data - Talk about ideas - Read everyday - Give other people credit for their victories - Have a sense of gratitude.

 Unsuccessful People: Criticize - Hold a grudge - Blame others for their failures - Say they keep a journal but really don't - Think they know it all - Operate from a transactional perspective - Secretly hope others fail - Don't know what they want to be - Never set goals - Exude anger - Hoard information and data (Yep, Scraped Content!) - Talk about people - Fly by their seat of their pants - Fear change - Watch TV everyday - Take all the credit for their victories - Have a sense of entitlement.

Guess we all can relate to the above!

From the above link of MaryEllen's article, she is citing the success of Ann Curry as read in the USA Today: 'Here's how working mom Ann Curry makes it all work' ←click the link to the article.

The message from highly successful Ann Curry about working Moms and their children:

Tell them you love them — a lot.

'You can never tell them too many times. Let them roll their eyes,' says Curry. 'Life can sometimes be, for all of us, a bully and you need to have money in the bank, that love is money, to get you through all the way to the end. Every time you say 'I love you,' you're putting money in the bank. You're not always going to be there to put money in the bank, so I say you got to stock up so it will last a long time.'

Some very valuable life's lessons!

In our career as International Consultants, we too have always emphasized the points that are listed to the left in this infographic.

{Our Violets}

Mid March we have lots of lovely wood violets, mainly in our wood garden but also in other areas of our garden. So I did gather some for filling a tiny silver vase.

Wood Violets have such pretty faces, also their curved flower head looks very special.

Just so you can see their size, I've added a $ 0.10 piece for comparison.
For back ground I selected a spot with moss...

Sunlight can be quite striking in combination with these lovely flower heads!

Who would NOT love them?

One last closeup and than we say goodbye till 2016.

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{Pussy Willow from Cuttings}

We did have a Weeping Pussy Willow three years ago but we lost it when our creek got flooded. But last year while shopping at Whole Foods Market in Atlanta, we did buy a bouquet of Pussy Willows with the intent to grow them from these cuttings. Even though they're not the Weeping variety that we lost, but it worked and look:

Here it is, a young Pussy Willow Shrub from Cuttings!

Nicely close to the creek in its natural habitat where they thrive best.

Near our first bridge across the creek into our wood garden.

Mid March they did give us so much joy and they look beautiful!

No doubt these tiny shrubs will bigger over time and let me cut again a bouquet for in a vase.

There is even a spider living in the top part of this little shrub!

Spiders seem to prefer them as this one too shows some cob web threads.

Both of us grew up with plenty of Pussy Willows in the area where we grew up so we're quite pleased with these five new shrubs!

Do you have a Pussy Willow in your garden?

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