This is a very good piece of thought.

Read carefully and relate it to your life.

Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree and each apple has ten seeds. Thats a lot of seeds!

We might ask, "Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more apple trees?"

Nature has something to teach us here.

Its telling us : "Not all seeds grow. In life, most seeds never grow". So if you really want to make something happen, you had better try more than once."

This might mean:

You'll attend 20 interviews to get one job.

You'll interview40 ppl to find one good employee.

You'll talk to 50 ppl to sell one house, one car, one vacuum cleaner, one insurance policy, or a business idea.

And you might meet a 100 acquaintances just to find one special friend.

When we understand the "Law of the Seed", we dont get so disappointed.

We stop feeling like victims. We learns how to deal with things that happen to us.

Laws of nature are not things to take personally.

We just need to understand them - and work with them.

In a nutshell,

Successful people fail more often but they plant more seeds.

When things are beyond your control, here's something that you must NOT do so as to avoid misery in your life :

* You must not decide how you think the world SHOULD be.

* You must not make rules for how everyone SHOULD behave.

* Then, when the world doesnt obey your rules, you get angry!

* Thats what miserable ppl do!

On the other hand, lets say you expect that :

* Friends SHOULD return favours.

* People SHOULD appreciate you!

* Planes SHOULD arrive on time.

* Everyone SHOULD be honest.

* Your husband / wife or best friend SHOULD remember your birthday.

These expectations may sound reasonable but often, these things wont happen!

So you end up frustrated and disappointed.

There's a better strategy:

Demand less, and instead, have a preferences!

For things that are beyond your control, tell yourself:

"I would prefer this, but if that happens, its OK too!"

This is really a change in mindset. It is a shift in attitude, and it gives you more peace of mind...

You prefer that people are polite...but when they are rude, it doesnt ruin your day.

You prefer sunshine...but if it rains, it is OK too!

To become happier, we either need to :

A) change the world , or

change our thinking.

It is easier to change our thinking!

In a nutshell

It is not the problem that is the issue,

but rather it is your attitude attending to the problem that is the problem.

It is not what happens to you that determines your happiness.

It's how you think about what happens to you!

I LOVE THIS PIECE OF THOUGHT... WE OFTEN FORGET RULES OF WISDOM !

THANK YOU FILURINA FOR REMINDING US TO CHANGE OUR THINKING.

I WISH YOU HAPPINESS :-)

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Does he/she (I'll try to be gender friendly :-P) has to put his/her seed always in the same soil????

Wise words.

attitude is everything...

vodka is everything

sassy ja still want more vodka?

yes i love this piece of thought. very touching and impressive how we can look at the world.

glad u all like it na =)

Geminis are really smart... I know you wrote that yourself May

Such a big compliment mark =) thank you