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21 tips for building resilience 3 - Optimism

29 March 2020

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    21 tips for building resilience 3 - Optimism
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Some years ago, one of my colleagues gave me some strawberry popcorn seeds. For those of you that haven’t seen these before, imagine a handful of the most beautiful dark, ruby coloured pomegranate seeds – just smaller. Being a keen gardener, I planted them immediately; and after a couple of very long months, I finally harvest my first crop. Year after year, I planted the remaining seeds from the previous year and successfully harvested my homegrown popcorn. Then we moved – and the quality of the soil at the new house was no gardener’s dream. Needless to say, the jar with the remaining seeds from my previous garden remained unopened for more than a year. Until a few days ago….

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