This time of year always reminds me of being a little girl and helping my grandfather work in his garden. I remember one time in particular that I was completely puzzled by how potatoes were sown. You actually cut "seed potatoes" in half, and plant them in the earth. I said "Popaw, if we need more potatoes, why are you burying these?" And he answered: "if you want more of anything, you have to sow what you want more of".
As I get older and learn more about life, I become more and more confident that my Popaw was right. Sowing and reaping is a universal principle. It always works, even when it doesn't look like its working. Just as there is a time lag between when a farmer sows seed and when the germinated seed breaks through the ground, so it is with much of life. My favorite example of this is bamboo.
Unlike normal crops that you can harvest annually, the Chinese Bamboo tree takes a little longer. The process goes like this: You take a little seed, plant it, water it, and fertilize it for a whole year, and nothing happens. The second year you water and fertilize it, and nothing happens. The third year you water and fertilize it, and again nothing happens. How discouraging this becomes!
The fourth year, you continue to water and fertilize the seed and then-take note. Sometime during the fourth year, the Chinese bamboo tree sprouts and grows NINETY FEET IN SIX WEEKS!
If you do the right things (sow what you want), the right things happen (you get a harvest when the time is right). Students sow time to study because they want to reap good grades. Business men invest (or sow) capital so that they can reap profits. Great sales people sow time to lead generate so that they can reap closed transactions and referrals.
The catch is whatever you sow you will also reap. You don't plant corn and harvest peas. If you have planted things that you don't want to multiply in your life, the good news is you can change it! All you have to do is start planting what you want TODAY.
What do you need? More money? More referrals? More love? More patience? Sow it! I guarantee that in time, you will reap rich rewards.
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