Chapter 18
The Decision
It’s easy to decide to do something. The hard part is actually doing it. Josh thought about this as he drove home from the airport. George had talked about happiness being a by-product of working with passion and purpose. The question now was, could he actually do this in his current job? Could he learn, grow, and serve in a job that had become stale. The idea of a new job at a different company had been an exciting fantasy, and now he hoped he could turn that fantasy into a reality at his current job.
He looked at the seed in his hand. “Yes, I know where to plant it now,” he told himself. When George had talked about growing to his full potential, his heart knew before he did. You can’t plant your seed in the past, and you can’t plant it in the future. The only place you can plant it is in your present.
The answer had been right in front of him, but he hadn’t seen it. He should have known. The answers to life’s greatest questions are always the simplest. He would plant his seed at the job he was in now. He would put his heart and soul into his work and bring his love of learning, growing, and serving with him.
As George had said, if he was meant to grow at his company, he would. And if he was meant to be promoted and replanted somewhere else, it would happen. His job was to trust the process and plant his seed in the present opportunity—wherever it was. ...
