Let the Seeds Grow by Chris Widener, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

Posts: 4978 · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:14 am

The thought that every great thing that has ever happened, been spoken or invented began first with a single idea is not a new one, but one I don’t think many people have taken to heart.

I find that many people are constantly getting ideas. That is, their mind is producing many new thoughts on a regular basis. This is incredible because that means that the seeds for great things are right there in the soil of our minds and hearts. Unfortunately, we all too often do not let those seeds grow. Instead we dismiss the ideas.

We will never know, but I wonder who it was that first thought of the light bulb, but dismissed the idea. I wonder who it was that first saw the automobile in his or her mind’s eye, but dismissed the idea. Who was it that thought up the way to run computers but allowed the seed to slip away?

Let these seeds grow! Do not dismiss any idea as a bad one immediately. Write your ideas down. Look at them for a week or a year. Brew them. Consider them. Let them GROW. In the end you may need to dismiss them, but not before you give them a chance to grow into something incredible that may change your life, your family, your business, your community or your world. If you let your ideas grow, you will surely see many great things happen in your life.

Let your seeds of ideas grow—see what they may become!

“In the dust of defeat as well as in the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.” —Eric Liddell

Chris’s Commentary:
Setback is never fun. It is much easier when we win. Remember the old saying, “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”? This is how we think of it most often. But the really important thing to evaluate is whether or not we did our best. Did you win but play poorly? Then the victory could be bittersweet. Did you lose but play your best? Then you should take pride in your effort and seek to make your best even better for the next time.

Action Point:
Take some time today to think not of whether you have won or lost, but whether you are doing your best. Are you? If not, then set out for yourself two specific things you can do today to play at your best and highest level.

Be a Negative Optimist by Brian Tracy

The most important quality for success in entrepreneurship and in life is the quality of optimism. Optimists have an unrealistic expectation of success. As a result, they are willing to try far more things without becoming discouraged. In addition, because of their unrealistically positive attitude, they are willing to persist much longer than the average person. Optimism is a wonderful quality as long as you have it under control.

Temper Your Optimism
In order to be successful in business and in any activity where your money is involved, you must temper your optimism with negativism. You must be enthusiastic about the possible upside of the investment but you must be skeptical, critical, suspicious and demanding about all the different ways that your money can be lost.

Listen to Negative Viewpoints
Seek out and listen carefully to people who are negative toward your idea. Look for negative thinkers, because their viewpoints can be invaluable and save you a fortune in time and money. I have a friend who is a lawyer, and he recommends and gives advice to many people on investments. And what he does is this. When someone comes and they want to make an investment that he’s unsure about, he says, all right, I want you to come to my office and I want you to sit behind my desk. And then I’m going to come in and I’m going to present this investment to you and I want you to critique this investment as if you were me.

Help Others to Evaluate Honestly
And he says that when his clients begin critiquing the investments they’re thinking about going into, when they begin becoming negative thinkers about the investments, he says they are astonished at how bad the investments really are. He said he has saved his clients millions of dollars by forcing them to be negative thinkers about their own ideas, simply by switching roles and sitting in front of the desk while they sit behind the desk.

Keep Your Mind Open
But don’t be overly influenced by negative thinkers. Just take their viewpoints into consideration. There’s a famous story of Mary Hudson, who started off with 200 dollars in the middle of the Depression and leased a gas station that two men had gone broke running at two different occasions. And from that she built a company called Hudson Oil, which is now the biggest independent distributor of gas and oil in the United States. From a 200 dollar investment, even though everybody told her she would fail. So remember, listen to negative thinkers, but don’t necessarily accept their advice.