It was a tiny, virtually invisible thermal exhaust port on the Death Star, which eventually brought about its demise.

My friend had always wanted to own a bonsai tree. A few weeks ago, he finally bought one for his office.

He was excited to tell everyone about his new tree. He followed the instructions and started doing everything that was required to take care of the tree. But, a few days after buying the plant, suddenly it began to lose its leaves. Over the next couple of days, no matter what he did, it continued losing leaves and started to look like it was going to die.

I stopped by his office recently, and he showed me the sad little tree and told me the history. Now, I don’t know anything about taking care of plants, especially not a bonsai tree, but this didn’t seem normal.

Then I noticed something.

A few years back, the person who worked in his office before him had tinting installed on the windows. The tint was filtering out light and starving the tree.

He’s removed the tree, and it’s now starting to grow its leaves back.

It is interesting to ponder… something so subtle, virtually invisible in that tree’s everyday environment was preventing the tree from growing. And no matter what care was taken to help the tree, as long as it was in that environment, it was never going to grow or flourish; in fact, it was dying.

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Ok, that’s all for today. Good luck out there!

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