Seeds

# Chapter 20

I believe the vast majority of us don’t sow nearly enough seeds for the harvest we expect from our efforts. This is because we are harvest-focused not seed-focused and I for one have got to change this up completely, for I have learned that real success is casting seeds, the harvest will happen sorta automatically if I focus on seeds being planted. Or to say the metaphor a different way, your investment should be focused on the investment not the pay out at the end. Your success is in how many possibilities you produce not how many widgets you make. The success is in how many coffee’s you share with potentials not how many clients you have at the moment. A company I work with even has a name for this concept - 100 cups of coffee. Clearly I need to get out and have many many more 1-10 cups of coffee because it has been an entire year since I had coffee with someone in an actual coffee shop! Now I have made lots of cups of coffee for people in our home, but that is not generally planting any new seeds, that is more enjoying the outcome of seeds planted in the past if they are in my home enjoying a meal and a cup of java with us.

Many things require multiple seedings. When we lived in Eastern Europe for 22 years and I would try to get new idea off the ground I would have to “seed” that idea over and over and over until someone else thought it was their idea and then, and only then would it fly and take over and eventually become a harvest. In the business ventures I have been working on for years, I have to look at 100-200 houses (seeding) before I have a real possibility to make an offer on and pursue the purchase.

Stop focusing on the harvest to the exclusion of planting more seeds, over and over and over!