It is a beautiful day and I am wishing for you a happy Monday.
Living in some respects is often comparable to farming or at best the same principles that are applied to farming can also be applied to life. The principles to be applied to both are somewhat similar which is preparation, sowing, growing, maturing and finally reaping. The same principles are followed by the farmer who grows crops or rear livestock.
There is another important thing that farmers must observe and that is knowing when to plant and what crops to plant. Agriculture is subject to weather conditions but if crops are planted out of season then there will not be a harvest to look forward to reaping.
Many persons think that it is too late to begin or they are too old to start pursuing a dream and this is a lie. life has equipped everyone with experiences and we all have thoughts and ideas so it is up to you and I to begin where we are. You and I can succeed where we are.
We should never forget however the principles of farming and like the farmer cultivate patience. The farmer does not reap a crop a week after he sows the seed nor are livestock ready for slaughter a month after birth. In a similar way you and I need to patiently watch over the seeds of ideas that we sow until the time of reaping.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Give a thought or idea a chance
Most of us are aware that it may only take a spark to start a fire that becomes a raging inferno. We associate fire with danger, damage and destruction and respect fire because nothing is able to live in it.
Few of us stop to consider the possibility that lies in a single grain or seed. One only has to ask a farmer and he will point out that a grain or seed has the possibility to eternally produce and continually does so. It is simply a matter that no one is keeping track of the multiplication process of a single seed or grain.
There are differences between a fire and a seed or grain. A fire need three things to burn mainly oxygen, heat and fuel, it burns until one or all of these runs out. A grain or seed may require many ideals conditions to grow and thrive however many grains or seed will thrive where they are and simply need someone to throw it outside or cover it in the earth. Once this is done some will need care and attention while others will grow naturally.
When I was living in Jamaica I planted crops around the house. There was the area that I reserved around the house as the lawn and even then I determined which variety of grass grew there. The rest of land around the house I planted with crops.
Here is my reason for doing so grass, weed or whatever will grow around the house, I had no control over that. There was plenty of rain and plenty of sunshine (it does not matter how poor the land is it will support some form of grass or weed) so I would for ever be weeding, cutting grass and bushing weeds so I determined that because this was so then I would determine what grew around the house so I planted crops and tended to them. I would ever be weeding and bushing so I determined to benefit from the process.
There are things in life that you and I will not be able to control because they occur naturally but we can benefit from the process. Many of our thoughts and ideas just need to be exposed (thrown out or planted) and nature will take care of the rest. Like a seed or grain some may need to be tended, cared and nourished, which ever way you may see things give a thought or idea a chance this week and watch them grow and multiply.
Few of us stop to consider the possibility that lies in a single grain or seed. One only has to ask a farmer and he will point out that a grain or seed has the possibility to eternally produce and continually does so. It is simply a matter that no one is keeping track of the multiplication process of a single seed or grain.
There are differences between a fire and a seed or grain. A fire need three things to burn mainly oxygen, heat and fuel, it burns until one or all of these runs out. A grain or seed may require many ideals conditions to grow and thrive however many grains or seed will thrive where they are and simply need someone to throw it outside or cover it in the earth. Once this is done some will need care and attention while others will grow naturally.
When I was living in Jamaica I planted crops around the house. There was the area that I reserved around the house as the lawn and even then I determined which variety of grass grew there. The rest of land around the house I planted with crops.
Here is my reason for doing so grass, weed or whatever will grow around the house, I had no control over that. There was plenty of rain and plenty of sunshine (it does not matter how poor the land is it will support some form of grass or weed) so I would for ever be weeding, cutting grass and bushing weeds so I determined that because this was so then I would determine what grew around the house so I planted crops and tended to them. I would ever be weeding and bushing so I determined to benefit from the process.
There are things in life that you and I will not be able to control because they occur naturally but we can benefit from the process. Many of our thoughts and ideas just need to be exposed (thrown out or planted) and nature will take care of the rest. Like a seed or grain some may need to be tended, cared and nourished, which ever way you may see things give a thought or idea a chance this week and watch them grow and multiply.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Success and winning
Wishing for you a happy Monday
We live in a world that is driven by successes and winning. Students in school are told that they all are winners and they even get rewarded for failing. Success and winning have become so ingrained that the natural process of growth is being reversed by the experts. In the natural process of growth the best seeds are selected, the soil prepared, then planting, growth, bearing fruit, maturing, ripening and finally ready for reaping. The present process to success and winning involves beginning with reaping and doing things in reverse order.
There is much value in recognizing that it is what comes out of you that determines who you are. This is good and teachers are ensuring that it is only the good that enters into their students so as to ensure that students have only a positive outlook on life. Unfortunately the real values that makes a person outstanding cannot be taught.
Although every one is declared to be a winner only one person gets the prize and all others are losers. The man who never lost does not really know what it is to win.
Many parents do their best to prevent their children having to endure similar hardship as they did but unfortunately they cannot shield their children from the circumstances that life will throw at them.
This week you and I can be success stories and winners. We can do this although no one will be there to cheer us on but whatever task we set out to do we can complete that task.
We live in a world that is driven by successes and winning. Students in school are told that they all are winners and they even get rewarded for failing. Success and winning have become so ingrained that the natural process of growth is being reversed by the experts. In the natural process of growth the best seeds are selected, the soil prepared, then planting, growth, bearing fruit, maturing, ripening and finally ready for reaping. The present process to success and winning involves beginning with reaping and doing things in reverse order.
There is much value in recognizing that it is what comes out of you that determines who you are. This is good and teachers are ensuring that it is only the good that enters into their students so as to ensure that students have only a positive outlook on life. Unfortunately the real values that makes a person outstanding cannot be taught.
Although every one is declared to be a winner only one person gets the prize and all others are losers. The man who never lost does not really know what it is to win.
Many parents do their best to prevent their children having to endure similar hardship as they did but unfortunately they cannot shield their children from the circumstances that life will throw at them.
This week you and I can be success stories and winners. We can do this although no one will be there to cheer us on but whatever task we set out to do we can complete that task.
Monday, September 8, 2014
"I know that you can do it"
My wish is that you are having a happy Monday.
Yesterday a friend issued a challenge to me when he said "The success of what you are doing will depend heavily on the quality of the person that you find. Instead of going all over the place hunting and trying to find the right person , why don't you do it yourself?"
I began to make excuses as to why I could not do what I needed done myself but his response to me was, "I am sure that I will be able to work with what you produce."
Some years ago I got involved in construction and garnered enough skill to actually build my house with my own two hands. I earned enough money then to buy the construction materials but after that there was not enough left to pay for labor so I learned to do it myself. My friends were not pleased with what I was doing and I got told off many times because they felt I was killing myself doing it all by myself when they were more than willing to to give me the help that I needed and they were not be asking to be paid for their labors. Since that time I try to involve my friends in whatever I am doing.
Some years ago I had and idea that I could do a CD of poetry and I did attempt to make a start but inspite of my efforts I could not even begin and eventually I gave up but the idea remained with me. I now have more and better poems and two months ago I decided it was time to try again. This time I called a friend in Jamaica and sold her the idea of getting involved. She even paid to get professional help.
Last week I called a friend in Jamaica and asked him to see if he could work with the product that she had. Yesterday morning he called me and told me that she had been sold short and the product was not good. That was when he challenged me to do it myself.
I had considered the possibility that the product that she ended up with may not work and have in place the means to refund her the money she spent.The biggest loser I think will be the professional she had paid for help because he has lost out on his name getting publicized (At least through my work) and had he done a good job he would have gotten the other thing I have in mind to do.
Last year a thought came to me and it has remained my theme since then and it is this "Opportunity do not present itself to the man that had no use for it."
Even as I write this I am scared because I know I will be taking up the challenge that my friend have issued to me. I reflect on the past and I am confident that I can do it but it is looking into the future that is scary because I can see a whole new world of possibilities before me.
Yesterday a friend issued a challenge to me when he said "The success of what you are doing will depend heavily on the quality of the person that you find. Instead of going all over the place hunting and trying to find the right person , why don't you do it yourself?"
I began to make excuses as to why I could not do what I needed done myself but his response to me was, "I am sure that I will be able to work with what you produce."
Some years ago I got involved in construction and garnered enough skill to actually build my house with my own two hands. I earned enough money then to buy the construction materials but after that there was not enough left to pay for labor so I learned to do it myself. My friends were not pleased with what I was doing and I got told off many times because they felt I was killing myself doing it all by myself when they were more than willing to to give me the help that I needed and they were not be asking to be paid for their labors. Since that time I try to involve my friends in whatever I am doing.
Some years ago I had and idea that I could do a CD of poetry and I did attempt to make a start but inspite of my efforts I could not even begin and eventually I gave up but the idea remained with me. I now have more and better poems and two months ago I decided it was time to try again. This time I called a friend in Jamaica and sold her the idea of getting involved. She even paid to get professional help.
Last week I called a friend in Jamaica and asked him to see if he could work with the product that she had. Yesterday morning he called me and told me that she had been sold short and the product was not good. That was when he challenged me to do it myself.
I had considered the possibility that the product that she ended up with may not work and have in place the means to refund her the money she spent.The biggest loser I think will be the professional she had paid for help because he has lost out on his name getting publicized (At least through my work) and had he done a good job he would have gotten the other thing I have in mind to do.
Last year a thought came to me and it has remained my theme since then and it is this "Opportunity do not present itself to the man that had no use for it."
Even as I write this I am scared because I know I will be taking up the challenge that my friend have issued to me. I reflect on the past and I am confident that I can do it but it is looking into the future that is scary because I can see a whole new world of possibilities before me.
Monday, September 1, 2014
The inverted pyramid
Wishing for you a happy Monday and a happy holiday if you are celebrating on where you are.
I have been given a new formula on how to achieve success and it is the inverted pyramid approach. All my life I have been trying to find a proven, workable and universal approach to achieving success. I grew up with the old adage “If at first you don’t succeed try and try and try again”. This has worked but when success finally comes I am exhausted and drained and there is the absence of that feeling of euphoria which I so much desire.
I have been given a new formula on how to achieve success and it is the inverted pyramid approach. All my life I have been trying to find a proven, workable and universal approach to achieving success. I grew up with the old adage “If at first you don’t succeed try and try and try again”. This has worked but when success finally comes I am exhausted and drained and there is the absence of that feeling of euphoria which I so much desire.
The inverted pyramid approach to succeeding
requires that I present my best or the peak at first and then gradually spread
out. The upright pyramid requires gradually elimination and narrowing until I
reach the peak. The peak is the representative of the high point or at best the
very top.
Success I am told is very hard to achieve and I am very
unlikely to succeed but I should follow the status quo because their success is based on this approach. Hopefully a successful
person will see the value of my efforts and utilize it. I will get no recognition or credit for my
efforts but at least I will have the satisfaction of knowing that it was my
work.
The inverted pyramid approach requires building without a
foundation or being top heavy with a narrow bottom. It requires that I give my best initially and then follow up with crap. The upright pyramid allows for a tower or a spire to be
built on the peak or at best continued growth.
In all honestly I do not like
the inverted pyramid approach to success because of my background. I grew up in
Jamaica which is an island located in the Caribbean Sea. There are many things
to which we are exposed two of which are earthquakes and hurricanes.
Buildings are constructed to withstand magnitude 7.0 and above earthquakes and
to withstand 120 mph and more winds. My efforts towards success must be able to withstand
what life throws at my efforts in a similar way that the buildings are expected to
stand the magnitude of an earthquake or the winds of an hurricane.
I am guaranteed not to succeed
anyway and if I present my best initially then I have nothing to aspire
toward afterwards. This is a tough life in which I must follow advice of the experts and ignore my gut feelings.
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