7 Laws of Sowing and Reaping

You Reap Only What You Sow-

Sowing is a choice. It is intentional and you expect to reap from your efforts. If you sow apple seeds, you will get apples. If you want to be more optimistic sow the seeds of optimism. Sow positive behaviors to reap positive results.

Your thoughts are your seeds. Say to yourself positive affirmations, "I'm super good but I'm getting better", or "I am a positive person who looks for the best outcome in every situation"," the leads are great and there is opportunity in every one of them".

You won't reap bananas from pumpkin seeds, no matter how hard you hope for them. Hope is not a strategy. Hoping customers will buy from you will not create sales.

Know Where To Sow-

Seeds sown on rocks will never bear fruit. Sowing is an investment so be careful where you spend your energy and with whom.

If you want to be successful hang around successful people.

A Farmer Knows His Crop-

Sowing is an investment, so the farmer is careful. He is equipped to sow and reap in accordance with the nature of his crop.

The farmer has the land, has the right equipment, understands the calendar, knows the cultivation schedule, and knows the water and nutrients necessary for the crop to yield its intended result.

If the farmer is careless, if his stewardship falters, he stands to lose everything.

When the Time is Right, Reap-

You reap in a different season than you sow. Plants don't germinate overnight and consequences are often delayed. Focused training should be done in the off season so when the season comes to harvest we are prepared and ready. Weekly meetings are where you water your crops, role playing.

Most people aren't willing to do the hard work it takes to make selling easy or production, service, call center, for that matter. Training is the highest value activity you do in any company or department.

You don't get great at selling (or in any position) in one day you get great at selling day by day.

We Can't Do Anything About Last Year's Harvest-

Life is filled with important choices, and every choice has a consequence, it's cause and effect. It's not about whether last year's harvest was good or bad, it's about how you handled the success or failure of that harvest.

We can do something only about this year's crop (Living in "NOW")... but we can take what we learned last year and make this year's harvest more bountiful.

Life is full of lemon's, it's up to you to make lemonade.

It's important to have the strength and the desire to continue sowing.

Don't Worry About the Weather Or Anything Else-

Worry is wasted effort and the breeding ground of doubt. It can lead you to focus on potential losses rather than effective solutions.

Combat worry by taking positive actions that will prevent worry from happening.

You Reap Much More Than You Sow-

One single seed yields hundreds to thousands of its kind.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

You can never like anyone else more than you like yourself and don't expect others to like you if you don't hold yourself in high esteem.

These principles can be applied to each and every one of us. They apply to every company in every department in every division. These principles are Biblical - Galatians 6:7, it's Karma also known as Cause and Effect.

You reap what you sow!

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The 5 Good Questions About Self Improvement?

1. What is self improvement?




• Self improvement is a choice, and we choose to change ourselves from within.


• Self improvement is to become responsible of what we do, what we have and who we are.


• Self improvement helps us to build our self esteem, our values and it takes discipline.


• Self improvement is to take the needed power and control into your own hands to create the future you want.


• Self improvement is a battle, a continuous struggle to transcend our weaknesses and limtations.It starts with knowing ourselves and having an aspiration of having a better life.
  On the battle field we need to carry appropriate luggage and armor. Choose a bullet-proof armor and this is self change. Self change is about changing our attitude, our behavior and our way of thinking.


• Self improvement is improvement of one's mind, character and health.


• Self improvement is not a rigid science. Many ingredients can be blended to produce a variety of self improvement dishes. Some random occurrences coming along the course of our life such as painful life (loss of job, loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a natural disaster destroying all your possessions) or life threatening illness can be used to improve ourselves.


• Self improvement is not just improving your mindset. It also involves improving your body and physical state. The mind and body are intertwined and both affect each other. Therefore, self improvement ideas should focus on both aspects.


2. Who needs self improvement ?
Everybody needs self improvement. Every person aspires to have a better, successful and fulfilled life. Self improvement is one of the tools that attains this goal.
Every person is unique. Each individual has thousands of facets of his life that could or need to be improved.

3. What are the results of self improvement?


The results of self improvement is inner stability, personal development, self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.
Knowing that knowledge is power leads people today to increase, in secret their abilities, like acquiring better conversational skills, to get promotion. Each individual must take the reins of his future and control his destiny.
Self improvement helps people to achieve his goal or accomplish his vision.
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4. What does require self improvement?


It requires perseverance, patience, practice, thirst of knowledge and commitment. Just knowing what to do by reading books or attending seminar or listening to tapes will not give any results unless you choose to practice what you learn. Starting to buy or to subscribe to any self improvement program or to talk or to articulate what we should do is just the beginning but the main thing and the real test for us is to commit ourselves to practice what we preach or read.


5. What are the kinds of self improvement programs?

Self improvement involved many aspects of our life such as:

- how to boost your self confidence?
- how to get rid of depression?
- how to realize our goals?
- how to get a happy marriage?
- how to lose weight?
- how to sleep better?
- how to improve memory?
- how to get wealthy ?
- how to manage people?
- how to control anxiety attack?
- how to speak in public?
- how to be a leader?
- how to live longer?
- how to overcome fear?
- how to get charisma?
- how to eliminate bad habits?
- how to exploit your brain's unlimited power?
- how to find true happiness?
- how to organize time and space?
- how to live an abundant life?
- how to have a positive thinking?
- how to be a negotiator champion ?

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Why Not Me, Why Not You?

Why not me? That is all I have heard lately as people admire the successes of the Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg's and Sara Blakely's of our modern world. And you ask- why not me? It is pretty freaking simple people, it can be! Trust me when I say this- I hate sounding like a cliché too, but it is possible.
How the hell do you think that those people plus the hundreds of thousands of others that have capitalized on a life changing idea or product do it? It is very, very simple. They just take the chance and do it without looking back.
We as humans have a very easy time with making simple tasks difficult and easy decisions seem impossible. Why the hell do we do this? We do this because it is easier than the alternative- to actually do it. Nike has it right- "Just Do It."
It may seem scary at first, but you must embrace that feeling of doubt and uncertainty, because that is where magical stuff happens. It does not happen by embracing what society tells you to do which is to sit at your desk for 30 years, work a mundane job fulfilling someone else's dream instead of your own, work your 9-5 hours because that is what you were told to do, then drive home, and rinse and repeat this cycle until your miserable robot life comes to an end. But hey, he lived a good life as a drone. On the day when friends and family come to view you laying motionless on your back in a box they will ask, "What were his/her major accomplishments, what was their legacy that he/she left behind?"
Answer: They followed directions well and stayed within the lines of society and conformed to the rules of someone else. Does this sound like the mediocre life of most people you know? Maybe even yourself? Be honest now... I thought so.
This is NOT the life I choose to live. Yes, we all have a choice! Even when you think you do not have a choice, you are consciously making a decision to NOT have a choice. Think about that one for a second.
It is very easy to say, "I do not conform, that's not me, I make my own rules." I know, because that was me about a year ago until I said those two words that changed my life forever- I'm out!
In order to do something you first have to de-program yourself of all the garbage our society has corrupted you with over the course of your existence here on earth, and learn to be able to greet Ms. uncomfortable uncertainty with open arms and give that scary hag the biggest bear hug you can! Once you learn to recognize that specific feeling of uncertain chance creeping in on you, it will be up to you whether you open the door for the unknown to enter and change your life forever, or shut that door and contemplate the unknown. Then you will be stuck with the evil mistress of regret, and spend a fair portion of your robot life with the questions," If I woulda, if I coulda, if I shoulda."
To me, that is not a life. That is a day to day existence. Much like being a pinball being bounced around in a more serious game called life.
Once you're done making excuses for being a pinball, and fed up with the monotony of your Johnny 5 robot life, remember those two powerful words that helped me escape. And then, you will be the one facilitating how to replicate the path of your own successes.
Our reality is subjective and can be easily manipulated and changed by the conscious decisions we make every single minute, every single day.
Why wouldn't you want to leave a legacy of substance and have people comparing their lifestyle dreams to your reality?
Next time you are alone with your thoughts, comparing yourself to someone that you admire for whatever reason, stop asking the question- "Why not me?" Start demanding the statement-- "Why not me!"

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7 Methods to Achieve Balance and Self-Control

In order to apply the concepts of balance and self-control in your present life, you should first consider this: Did you choose the situations you were born into?

Did you have any say in who your parents were, the kind of home you grew up in, or the circumstances that shaped you genetically, geographically, economically, or emotionally?

Perhaps in your own life, you would say that you grew up in an environment that lacked a sense of balance; or that you feel you have grown into a person with little or no self-control when it comes to your cravings, indulgences, your temper, words and your actions.

None of us chose the situations we were born into. But if the particular circumstances of your upbringing, or the life you are living now makes you realise that you need more balance and control in your life, the good news is that your future can be very different from your past.

Provided, of course, that you are committed and willing to open ourselves up to the process of self-improvement and change. There is no "quick-fix or a magic formula" when it comes to the work of human cultivation.

Cultivating self-control and gaining a sense of balance and control over your life is a journey and an ongoing process that requires time and effort, self-analysis, and gradual growth.

When this seed that represents your potential is well-sown, and properly tended and nurtured, it can become a strong fruitful tree.

And once you are committed to taking action and to long-term achievement, it becomes clear that there are many things, going forward, which we can now choose consciously or do differently in our lives.

Here are some of the methods and the realizations which have helped me in achieving increasing levels of self-control and overall balance in my life:

• Own your power and understand who you are: You are a valuable human being and a unique individual-a valuable human being separate from the perception of others, a person with the ability to think, to reason, and to evaluate information for yourself.

• Recognise that your choices decide what direction your life can go in.

• Understand that everything does not have to be complicated, complex and difficult for it to be worthwhile and true. In most cases, common sense and simplicity are the shortest paths to our goals.

• Learn to stop wasting your valuable time and energy by fretting over the things you simply cannot control-weather variables, traffic and crowds, taxes, the behaviour of others etc. Instead, you can resolve to try to calmly accept the things you can't change.

• Realise, (this being a gradual and a continuous process), that it is inevitable that there will be setbacks, challenges and frustrating periods in every person's journey.

• And because we all have faults and flaws, we will benefit from learning to exercise understanding and patience when dealing with the people we come into contact with, while realizing that it will not be possible to get along with every person or to please everybody all the time.

• The only thing we can do, therefore, is to concentrate on our own selves and to focus on our self-improvement. And of course, we should practice, and keep practicing.

The more we practice these steps, the more readily we will find ourselves feeling more in control of our own lives.

We will also find that we greatly increase our levels of self-control; and feel that we are achieving more and more of a sense of balance in our lives. As a result, we are likely to find our emotional load lightened, and ourselves calmer, happier, and healthier human beings.

S.A. Abraham writes from a world perspective, having lived, studied and worked in 3 Continents. Born in Africa (Ethiopia), she holds an LL.B in Law from London, UK; and has developed a keen interest in Human Behaviour, Psychology, Health and Wellness, the Holy Scriptures and Spirituality, as well as Eastern Philosophies, History and Current Affairs. She has been practicing Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan since 2005 and lives in Toronto, Canada. For free tips and ideas on the search for a better life, self-knowledge, discipline, progress and empowerment, visit her Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Keys-That-Open-the-Way-to-Inner-Peace-and-Empowerment/419282631501594

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Importance Of Discipline In Life

Discipline is freedom. Lots of people disagree with this statement, because for them discipline is just a word that means excessive work and absence of freedom. This is so far from the truth! Think of the freedom you have when you speak a foreign language! It might have taken you extra effort to learn another language, but this is a skill that definitely pays off and widens your possibilities of achieving greater success in life.

Self-discipline involves acting according to what you think instead of how you feel. Often you have to sacrifice pleasures for things that really matter in life. A great example of self-discipline that comes in my mind is going to the gym when all you want to do is lie on the couch and watch TV. Or maybe say "no" to that tempting chocolate donut when you are on a diet.

We live in a world where temptations are everywhere. We never get bored. We have so much entertainment! We have TV, video games, sports, you name it. No wonder people struggle to focus on their work. Have you ever asked yourself why should you do something which is hard and boring, when you can do something that is easy and fun instead?

Well... the reality is that you don't have to work hard and you don't have to do boring tasks. No one is forcing you to do that. But if you don't do it, you will have to suffer the consequences. Why? Because the things that are worth having in life, the things that have real value, are often the things that require time, effort and hard work. But if we live in a society that makes having fun so easy, how can we focus on obtaining the things that really matter in life? The answer to this question is discipline. Discipline will help you resist the temptation of playing video games when you need to do your homework, or you need to concentrate on something that really matter and add value to your life.

From a different point of view discipline doesn't mean that you can't have fun in life. We all need time for fun and entertainment, but there must be a balance between work and play. Self discipline requires lots of hard work and a strong will. It is basically like any other skill in life. At first it is hard, but the more you practice, the stronger and easier it will become. In other words, the more you discipline yourself to resist the temptations of life, the more your self-discipline will strengthen.

If you struggle with self-discipline, the good news is that you can work on it. You can develop your self-discipline by analyzing yourself and determining your goals, dreams and ambitions. Remember that discipline means that you have to do what is best for you, regardless of how you feel. Be aware of what you are doing and what you are not doing. In other words, be aware of your undisciplined behavior and stop it before it happens.

Writing down your goals is a great idea, but it is not enough. You must make an internal commitment to your goals. You need to make a conscious decision to follow through on what you say you are going to do. There will be times when you will be faced with extreme obstacles and setbacks. They will make you reconsider your ability to accomplish your dreams. They will make you come up with excuses to procrastinate. They will make you feel hopeless, powerless, and frustrated. These are the times when you will find out what you're really made of. These are the moments you will find out just how much you want your dreams. These are the times when your character is built.

Self-discipline is not an easy task and requires a lot of courage. Pleasures and passions are powerful enemies. It is easy to stay focused when things are easy. It's when things get tough and aren't going your way; these are the times when you need to focus. Your discipline will help you stay focused on what matters during those moments. What you choose to focus on when things get tough will determine everything. In today's society that is made up of largely undisciplined and lazy people, having strong self discipline will give you an enormous advantage in life.

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