The Law of Reaping
You’ve got to learn to co operate with the way things are. The seasons are established in this world. You can say, “It shouldn’t be that way.” Well, when you get your own planet you can re arrange things. On this planet you are a guest. You take it as it comes.
The secret to the ambitious sower with the good seed is in the fact that he kept on sowing. He kept on sowing. Here is what he had to do to keep on sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment. This is key. You will be disappointed with results from people in network marketing. You must learn to discipline your disappointment. You did not set up the set up and some are not going to stay. That is not of your making. If you made gross errors and you ran them off that is different and you are responsible for that. But if it is the normal course of things this is how things are.
The sower keeps on sowing. Some seed falls on thorny ground. You can ask, “How much of this stuff do you have to go through”. Hang on. It is not the end of the story. The little seed falls on thorny ground and the little plant starts to grow again. But as the little plant starts to grow the thorns choke it to death. The plant dies. In network marketing the thorns are going to get some. That also is not of your making.
What are these thorns? The story calls them little cares, little distractions, little something’s. Who knows what they all are. I say to John, “John we had a meeting last night and you where not there.” John says to me, “I can’t make it to every meeting.” I say, “Why not? You are part time”. He says, “The screen door came of the hinges. You just can’t let your house fall apart. You got to take some time off and fix things up. Some extra trash is piling up in the garage. You can’t let mountains of trash take over. You got to keep your trash thrown out.
What can you do about people who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities? What can you do? You feel almost helpless. What can I do about this? Nothing! You may ask, “Why is this”? Hey, don’t sign up for that class? Don’t go for the ‘The why is class’ it is just the way things are. Like winter following fall and spring following winter. Learn this. The thorns are going to get some.
Philosophy of Keeping on Sowing
Here is the good news. The rest of the story. The sower keeps on sowing the seed. Keeps on sharing the story. Keeps on giving the invitation. Yes the invitation can be more powerful when you are succeeding than when when you first start your network marketing. Your invitation is more powerful when you can say, “I am making twice as much money part time than I make at my full time job. The invitation gets more powerful with success but the law of averages is still at work.
Finally the seed falls on good ground. (It always will). If you keep sowing there will be results. If you share a good idea long enough it will fall on good people. Let’s continue with the story. Some of the good ground did 30%. Some of the good ground did 60%. And some of the good ground did 100%. You ask, “Why the difference in numbers?” I would not sign up for that class. Don’t register for that class. It’s just the way it is.
You can try to make the thirties to do sixty, It will be more than you can handle. You cannot make someone successful who has not got it. You will die in the process. You must not even try. Let the thirties do 30% to the best of their ability and keep doing 30% because that is how they build their lifestyle, and get what they want out of life. Let the sixties do 60% and let the one hundreds do 100%.
How can you get some to do 100%? You got to go through all these experiences. You got to talk to all these people. Have you got it?
Joseph Brown
