You Plant. You Water. God Brings the Harvest.

Here’s what nobody tells you when you start backing founders — the ones who make it aren’t the ones who control everything. They’re the ones who finally figure out what was never theirs to control in the first place. These six lessons took me decades to learn — and I’m still learning them.

• When I’m looking forward or back and become anxious, I say a prayer and ask God to bring me back to the present. He is in control, not me.

• God has a plan, so you never know where your work will take you or the destiny it will fulfill.

• If God wants you there, there you will be. The question then becomes: Why did God put you there?

• Occasionally, God gets our attention by eliminating what the focus of our attention and time is.

• The entrepreneur plants, waters, and tends the field. God brings the harvest.

• I am powerless, but I am in God’s hands. That is the best place to be.

What is one thing God removed from your life that you later realized was clearing the way for something better?