In This September 2015 Issue

*Six Cultural Habits That Interfere with Continuous Improvement

*Is Tribal Culture Hurting Your Business

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What you're harvesting now in your business and in your life is what you've sown long ago in your mind.

Does your harvest look good to you?

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Sheri Karan, owner of Blind Spot Nut Butters, will be receiving a SCORE National Award for Community Impact Businesses September 17th in Washington DC.

SCORE mentor and Summit strategic partner Kellie Boysen of Alternative HR, will be recognized also at the event as Sheri's SCORE mentor.

SCORE is a resource partner of the Small Business Administration. It is staffed by volunteers who mentor startup and growing small businesses.

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August 27 - Julie Poland speaks on "The Formula for Success" to interns at Central York High School.

September - Julie Poland leads the

Executive Women's Roundtable. Email info@summithrd for details.

September 2 - Julie Poland leads a Biz Builders Meet up for

York SCORE and the

Buy Local Coalition. Go to Meetup.com for details.

September 15 - The kickoff for the Team Leadership Workshop Series

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Surprised by your harvest?

This isn't a literal question, rather a figurative

one. we are reminded this morning of one of our favorite parts of the James Allen classic book, As A Man Thinketh, where he talks about how your brain must bring forth that which is inside it.

Allen says if you think of your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds, you choose what you will ultimately harvest. If leave your mind untended you will manifest weeds among the fruit and vegetables. If you cultivate your mind and you choose to plant nutritious grain, grain is what will result.

An apple tree doesn't produce oranges. An apple tree produces apples! And the same goes for the products of your thoughts - if you think about goodness, prosperity, achievement, kindness - you will grow those. If your focus is scarcity, hardship, cynicism - those crops will flourish for you. Just like apple trees grow apples, orange trees are necessary for oranges.

Thought leads to behavior and behavior leads to results. If you really follow Allen's argument all of the way, the current circumstances in your life are ones that you created. That means if you don't like what's going on for you, you only have yourself and your thoughts to blame.

Perhaps that's taking a pretty harsh interpretation of Allen's words, but ponder it for a minute with this example: You think you're an awful golfer. Your poor image of yourself as a golfer leads to you avoid setting foot onto a golf course or involving yourself in golf-related social events. You don't invest in good clubs, you don't waste your time on lessons, and presto! You continue to be a lousy golfer!

If, on the other hand, you think you have the potential to be a reasonably good golfer, you invest time in playing and refining your game. You might take lessons, or you might seek out a set of clubs that are well suited for your body size and swing. While you might not advance to the point that you are tapped for the PGA circuit, your game improves. You reap the harvest that ultimately results from the thought, "I could be a decent golfer if I focused on it."

There is not necessarily a direct line from thought to manifestation, from faith to the bountiful harvest. Actions are needed in between to help things happen. Yes, certain events happen around you and outside of you without direct intervention from you, but you will typically have to extend yourself in some behavior to create the results you want. The thought is the foundation, but there are actions that follow.

You can engage in a series of actions that you think will result in apples, but the series of actions will be harder for you to sustain if you don't have the supporting thought firmly ingrained in your mind. In the absence of the sustaining "apple" thought you will seek earlier proof that your actions are the right ones. In the case of apples, you may misunderstand when the first result that you see is not a tiny apple, but a blossom on the tree. You might go so far as to dig the tree out, thinking that you planted the wrong thing, and start over instead of waiting for the blossom to transform itself into the juicy apple.

What crops are you growing in your mind? If you are seeing results that are not what you want, you need to get to the root of it and investigate what the thoughts are that have sown the seeds for your current harvest. You then need to over-seed your mind with thoughts of the apples that you desire.

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Sincerely,

Julie, Jim and Mike
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