A Lesson From Seeds

Take a look at an apple tree. There might be 500 apples on the tree, and each apple has more than ten seeds. That's a lot of seeds! You might ask, "Why would we need so many seeds to grow just a few more apple trees?"

Nature has something to teach us here.  It's telling us, "Not all seeds grow into a tree."
The key lesson is - if you really want to achieve success, better be prepared to sow many seeds; try as many times as necessary."


This might mean:

• You may have to attend twenty interviews to get one job. 
• You may need to interview forty people to find one good employee.
• You'll talk to fifty people to sell one house, one car, one vacuum cleaner, one insurance policy, or a business idea.
• And you may have to meet a hundred acquaintances just to find one special friend.

When we understand the "Law of the Seed", we don't get so disappointed when our efforts do no bear fruit. We stop feeling like victims. We remind ourselves that it is a law of nature, and we need to try again and harder.  We learn how to deal with failure effectively.

In a nutshell, successful people fail more often, and they keep planting more and more seeds till they succeed.