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DON’T GROW UP WHEN ITS TOO LATE
Don’t mature only because you are growing older. Instead, mature as a response to opportunities that demand growth.
I will dare to say that real growth has a real price tag and many people fear to pay the price. That is why so many people grow up when it too late. They grow up when it’s passed the timing that was necessary for them to grow up.
There is a timely and profitable type of growth and there is growth that comes with age, where you have missed your timing to profit from a particular opportunity that is connected to a type of growth and maturity. Don’t get me wrong. There is benefit in growth by age, but what I mean is that there are particular opportunities that require you to rise to the challenge to be grown enough to handle those opportunities.
However, many fail to grow into the required growth levels that it will take to manage those opportunities and by the time they choose to grow up, the opportunity that demanded that growth has passed, and seldom does the opportunity come round again. So later on, you are now mature and grown without that opportunity that required that maturity.
The type of growth that comes with age is good but the type of growth that results from actually paying the price and responding to opportunities that demand growth is better.
