Seeds of Success

Take a lime (or apple/orange), cut it across the equator, and this is what you see:

"Whilst you can count the number of seeds in a lime, you can never tell how many limes there are in a seed."

Seeds and spring are inextricably linked. Spring is the season for planting seeds. To the successful farmers, spring is the time for definitive action - for saying, "if harvest is to be, it's up to me!" Spring is the time for gathering the best seeds, preparing the best soil, and planting ideas, energy, and enthuasiasm into a new crop of success.

Seeds are bought and sold. In every supermarkets, seeds for vegetables and flowers are displayed prominently. Good seeds are always those with high rates of germination.

(1) Where do good seeds come from?
Why, from the fruit of the previous harvest! Seeds don't spring forth from air. They come from the fruit produced either of your own growing or by someone, somewhere.

Reflection: Your success will be built from the success of another person or persons. You will base your success on what you can learned from others... what you have watched others do... what you have learned through emulating... what you have read or heard from others. In sum, your success isn't created in a vacuum. You are getting your seeds from somewhere!

(2) Don't plant all of your seeds in one hole. Why?

Any farmer knows this. Digging a giant hole in the center of an acre and planting several bushels of seeds there won't result in a harvest. In fact, it won't result in anything! Neither does a farmer scatter seeds to the wind in willy-nilly fashion. To do so means the crops grow in clusters that are difficult to cultivate and nearly impossible to harvest. Instead, the farmer, plant seeds one at a time.

...Photo: Barb's nursery of seedlings

Reflection: In terms of your success, you need to make make a concerted effort to plant seed after seed after seed. Day after day after day. Into the life of person after person after person. And into project after project after project.

Don't assume that because you wrote one stirring memo, you will be promoted. String that good memo with a good phone call and a good presentation and a good habit of arriving at work on time and putting in a full day's work to a good idea to a new innovation to a good suggestion ... and yet another good memo and phone call and presentation and so forth!

Photo: Tomato bush in Wayne's garden (summer)

Similarly, one compliment or one good deed doesn't make a relationship.

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Friendships and marriages are built by linking one loving, generous, and kind act of another ... after another after another after another...

Start planting your FIELD today!

Count on investing long hours during the planting season. Count on planting as many seeds as possible. Count on planting one at a time.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have the opportunity, let us do good to all people,... Galatians 6: 9-10

Source: D. Waitley, Timing is Everything