Have you
heard of the Bamboo Story.
The story goes like this......
You take a little seed. You plant
it, you water it , you fertilise it.
After a whole year nothing
happens.
The second year you water it and
fertilize it, and nothing happens.
The third year you water it and
fertilize it, and still nothing happens. How discouraging this becomes!
By this stage you haven’t even
seen a twig , bud , or anything.
Certainly by now it would be much
easier to have given up. But somewhere deep down inside a little voice tells
you to keep nurturing the plant.
It's well into the
fifth year now and you still continue to keep watering and fertilising the seed
without giving up.
But lo and behold
after the fifth year, the Chinese bamboo tree sprouts and grows NINETY FEET IN
SIX WEEKS!
Life is very much like the
growing process of the Chinese bamboo tree.
Quite often life is discouraging.
And when it seems all is lost we become overcome with fear which leads to that
one dreaded word “Give up”.
Worse still.... it becomes
more disheartening when you do everything right and watch others succeed with
less talent or knowledge.
The true sign of
resilience is to look beyond where you are now.
And keep growing your crop.
Whether it's 1 ... 2 ...
years or 3 years down the track
Simple fact.... we all
like different results with the same effort but TRUE success takes hard
work & great attention to detail.
Why am I recounting the Bamboo
story?
Because it's taken me about 2
years to see just tiny results from my efforts.
There were times I couldn't
visualise any progress. But I kept going.
I know it's not easy.
But deep down inside I believe
you too can achieve the same.
And when you do enough of it
everyday rewards will await you.
1% at a time.
Till suddenly........
you sprout up like a Bamboo
TREE!
Best Carlo
Direct Response Copywriter
