Sowing and reaping this spring

I’m out planting the new crop for the summer. Planting seeds reminds me about many business practices we must follow. As I’m out there and my three chickens are peck-en around looking for bugs that I dig up. I think of all the seeds I planted in business. Many never barred fruit and many did. Some started to grow, but then after a while they died off. Just like my garden. Sometimes we plant this season and harvest next. I planted my Artichokes last year and finely I have a few nice artichokes coming in. Some times you plant a business seed and it takes many years of nurturing before you see any results. Just like my Asperigus It’s just now starting to look like by next year I may have a harvest. Sometimes we invest in people and expect things to happen too quickly. Every harvest has its season.

 

Spring is in the air for business as well as gardening.

Remember it’s you job in business and gardening to plant the seeds, give them good a good environment to grow nurture them and the rest is up to nature.

 

Here is what Jim Rohn has to say about sowing and reaping

The Law of Sowing and Reaping by Jim Rohn

 The story of the sower. It comes from the Bible.

 

The sower was ambitious. Evidently, he was ambitious. When you read the whole story you’ll conclude yes, this was an ambitious sower.

Here was number two. He had excellent seed. The sower who sowed the seed had excellent seed.

So we’ve got an ambitious sower with excellent seed. But now here are the rest of the details of the story.

The sower goes out to sow the seed, but the first part of the seed falls by the wayside and the birds get it.

 The birds are going to get some of the seed.

 

Now when the birds get some, you’ve got two options. Number one is to chase birds.

Here’s what happens if you go chasing birds. You leave the field. If you go chasing birds now, you leave the field. Which is going to distract from your future, not add? So you can’t chase birds and try to straighten this stuff out.

Now here’s the rest of the story.

 

The sower kept on sowing. See, that was the secret to his success. He kept on sowing. And if you keep sowing, you can sow more than the birds can get because there aren’t enough birds. If you keep sowing, there are some birds but there’s not enough, because the Law of Averages will work for you.

Now here’s what else it says. The sower now keeps sowing the seed. Now the seed falls, on rocky ground where the soil is shallow. And the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making, because you had excellent seed and you were an ambitious sower.

So the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making. But here what it says happened. This time, the little seed that falls in the ground starts to grow and the little plant starts to grow. But the first hot day, it withers and dies. Not an easy thing to watch. The hot weather is going to get some. And this is not of your making. Here’s what you must say when that happens. “Isn’t that interesting?”

What can you do? The answer is nothing.

 

 Now, here is the secret to the ambitious sower with good seed. It said he kept on sowing.

Now, here’s what he had to do to keep on sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment. This is a key phrase now to use for the rest of your life. You must learn to discipline your disappointment.

Now, here’s what the story says. The sower keeps on sowing. Now it says the seed falls on thorny ground. And somebody says, “Well, how much of this do you have to go through?”

Well, hang on. It’s not the end of the story now. Now the little seed falls on thorny ground and now the little plant starts to grow again but as the little plant starts to grow, the thorns choke it to death and it dies.

So jot this down. The thorns are going to get some. And that’s not of your making.

And what are these thorns? The story even called these little thorns little cares, little distractions, little something’s. Who knows what all they are.

I said, “John, we had a meeting last night. You weren’t here.” And John says, “Well, I can’t make every meeting.”

I say, “Why not? You’re part-time.”

He said, “Well, the screen door came off the hinges and you can’t just let your house fall apart. You’ve got to take some time and fix things up.”

And I can hear the thorns growing. He said, “Some extra trash had piled up in the garage. You can’t let mountains of trash take over. You’ve got to keep your trash hauled out.”

People who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities, and you feel almost helpless. What could I do about that? And that’s nothing.

So have you got that? The thorns are going to get some.

 

But now here’s the good news. Let’s read the rest of the story now quickly. The sower now keeps on sowing the seed. Keeps on sharing the story. Keeps on giving an invitation. Yes the invitation can be more powerful for me as it was one year later than it was the first month.

Yes, the story can be more powerful, but the Law of Averages is still going to work.

But now here’s what the story says. Finally the seed falls on good ground. Now put this in parentheses. It always will, if you keep sowing. If you share a good idea long enough, it will fall on good people.

But now here’s the rest of that story. Some of the good ground did 30%. And some of the good ground did 60%. And some of the good ground did 100%.

Now I tried to get the 30’s to do 60. Found out it was more than I could handle. I used to say, “I’ll make them successful if it kills me.” I almost died. No, you can’t do that.

Here’s what you do. Let the 30’s do 30 to the best of their ability and keep doing 30, because that’s how they build their lifestyle and get what they want out of life. And let the 60’s do 60. And let the 100’s do 100.

Now how can you get some to do 100%? You’ve got to go through all these experiences and you’ve got to talk to all these people.

 Jim Rohn

 

Like Jim Rohn says it with business so it is in farming.

 

 

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