One my coaches in life talks about can you imagine being a farmer having a seed and planting that seed. I started thinking about that and wanted to expound on this extremely important topic for your business to steadily grow and thrive in the great times and the bad times. After tilling your ground, then you plant your seed, you fertalize, water it real hard for one day and then let the sun hit it, you don’t have anything that next day do you? Of course not, so now imagine this, as a farmer you must continue to do this everyday for quite sometime. Finally one morning after all the intense labor, the early mornings and late nights you see some sprouts. Now could you imagine when a farmer sees the sprouts that he goes over and gets pissed off and yanks all of the sprouts out of the ground and destroys all the months of work he put in because there’s no corn or tomatoes. That would be crazy wouldn’t it, of course it would because to a farmer these sprouts would be a blessing but not the end of the labor, it just means he’s part of the way to reap his harvest from all the seeds he has sown.
Are You Thankful For Your Sprouts?
Your network marketing business is very similar to farming because the more seeds you plant the more harvest you have the chance of reaping. Now do you think every seed a farmer plants grows into his end harvest? It doesn’t! There is up and downs in farming just like there is in your business, the weather isn’t always right sometimes it’s a storm the whole time and the seeds you planted (people you talked to) are destroyed, sometimes there’s a drought and all the heat destroys the crops. But let me ask, you do realize farming works right? I’m mean come on did you eat food this morning or last night that was grown at some point. With that being the case you do realize the network marketing business you are in works right and the seeds you are planting meaning people you are getting in front of the information won’t all grow into a distributor or at the least a sell of your product.
Don’t Pull Up Your Sprouts.
What was recommended to me is that I put together a sprouts book, this book is a place where you keep all the positive things that happen in your business like, you talked to more people then you ever have about your business, you got over your fear of the phone, you brought on a new distributor for the month, you sold some product for the week. Not that you only brought on one distributor for the month or only sold one item this week. Speak life into your business and your life not death. When you do this you will realize you are moving forward to that major harvest, it doesn’t happen overnight or over a few months even, it depends on a variable of factors. So keep your soil fertile meaning continue to improve your tools and keep them sharp meaning your mindset and your skill set in your network marketing profession. Because if you had a shovel and I had a tractor who would probably get more done that’s obvious the right tool for the job.
Your Business Like Bamboo Grows
It is not till sometime in the fifth year the bamboo tree will start to grow. And when it decides to grow, what happens in the next 4-6 weeks will astonish you. The tiny bamboo sprout you cared for will grow as much as 3 feet in a single day till it reaches as high as 90 feet. How can this be? While in the first through fourth years, the plant was not growing above ground, it was actually growing below ground. It was developing miles of its intricate root system which would eventually help propel its massive upward growth in year five. The bamboos’ intricate root structure takes four years to prepare itself for the growth it will experience in its 5th year.
Life is very much like the growth of the bamboo tree. You can do everything seemingly right, but still see no results. Just remember, although you may not be growing above ground, you just might be developing your root system. This will one day ultimately propel your growth. Keep persistent and never give up.
Dedicated To Your Success
Madiba Thompson
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This is beautifully expressed!!!I have found after starting 9 successful Rolfing practices and being top in sales in a time share co that the beginning is always the hardest… but the most important! I knew that if I just stayed positive and continues to put energy out even if the results were not immediate that it would all come back… the trick is also not to let our little minds try to sabotage us by saying …”you can’t” at that time when I hear that I say “yes..I CAN”.. thank you for this beautiful metaphor!!!