SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE FAIL MORE OFTEN
It is a paradox, but it’s true.
Great success is frequently preceded by (or interrupted by) great failure.
Consider the American professional baseball Hall of Famer, Hank Aaron.
During Hammerin’ Hank’s 23-year career, he hit a record-setting 715 home runs,
but he struck out 1,383 times while doing so. Lesson Learned: Don’t ever
be fearful of an apparent near-miss or abject failure; it may merely be the
prelude or portal to phenomenal victory.
When you are tempted to feel
discouraged, remember THE LAW OF
THE SEED. That is, the more you SOW of your TIME,
TALENT and TREASURE,
the more opportunity you create for success. Is there natural evidence
for this spiritual principle? Yes! The average apple tree contains
five hundred apples, with an average of seven seeds per apple.
Significance? Seeds sown could somehow
result in failure. Therefore, multiple seeds are necessary to guarantee
productive and positive results.
Perhaps you have not tried hard
enough, long enough, or consistently enough. Prayerfully consider and
evaluate.
Job seekers may have to work their
way through twenty (or more) interviews before landing the right
position. Employers might have to interview forty (or more) candidates
before finding the right employee. Sales reps might have to identify fifty (or
more) prospects before setting five appointments and closing one deal.
You and I might have to wade through scores of acquaintances before finding
that one special friend.
Understanding THE LAW OF THE SEED minimizes
frustration and disappointment. It is helpful to read the biographies of
successful individuals. Whenever their authors are candid and complete,
we invariably discover times of trouble and testing in which
persons-now-at-the-top experienced unsettling setbacks that literally shook
their foundations and brought them to their knees. Perhaps, the
‘knee-position’ is the greatest place and posture any human can occupy.
Sisters and brothers,
be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO
MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!
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