I’m surrounded by orange groves here in Lake Placid FL today. Here’s a picture in the groves. As you can tell, you can’t get the big picture view of what’s happening with your crops when your in the middle of it. You spend most of your time fertilizing, inspecting fruit, and ensuring there is no pest infestation. Most days I’m working in the groves at Family First…trimming branches so that we’ll be even more fruitful and inspecting fruit to ensure we’re producing resources that serve the soul.
Sometimes its also important to be able to look at the health of your entire grove. 
The picture at the right is the bigger view of the grove I was in. Right now, I’m working on Family First…taking a mental helicopter ride so that I can make sure I see the big picture of what we are doing and the entire landscape of our organization.
By the way, when you’re working “on” your organization, it’s good to be alone. But when you’re working in your organization, it’s critical to have a trusted comrade with you. Below is a picture of my trusted comrade in the groves. His name is Willy and he was born in the U.S.A in 1949! At Family First, I have trusted comrades working with me as well. They allow me to take mental helicopter rides like this every once in a while. For that, I am grateful.
