It’s Rainforest Friday! It’s the day we send out our rainforest report with useful tips for increasing productivity and turning your business and life into a peacefully productive environment where things just seem to work like they were meant to.

Last week we talked about how to synchronize to maximize like so many trees do in the rainforest but today I want to talk about another strategy for keeping the pests at bay that is modeled in the forest. It’s called “delayed greening”. Here’s how it works… The tree shoots out its new leaves which are highly vulnerable, but they come out red in color. They are completely lacking green (chlorophyll) which is what the bugs want to eat. The leaves grow and get strong without being eaten, then once the leaf has matured some and toughened up, the plant injects the green into the leaf. By then, it is protected and the bugs can’t get to it.

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