Friday, September 26, 2008

THE FARMER INSTINCT: THE HABITUAL SUCCESS FACTORS

I wonder why you'd want to read this article. This is a piece of my thought while you were, probably, busy with something else. Sometimes, reading other people's thought through articles like this could be a sheer waste of time. Do you know why?

You probably, or most definitely know everything that is written in there.

Sometimes again, we find ourselves learning new things like we do in schools. However, at some certain age, we seldom learn. So, at such ages, what do we do reading? Why must we even read in the first place? I hear you say that "As long as Man lives, learning is continual". Well, I agree. But have you also heard that "A man learns 50% of everything he needs to learn between the ages of 5 and 7 years"? Yes, 50% it is!

Have you answered the puzzle why a child tends to believe his/her nursery school teacher, even at old age? Anyway, I leave that to a probable next article!

Basically, most times we read, we are most likely rekindling knowledge that went gray or totally lost in our memory. However, I hasten to add that, if what we read is not about researches, discoveries or inventions.

So, I ask again: Why are you still reading this article? There is nothing in here that you do not know. If you think you are going to find anything new, then you are mistaken. If you think you are going to rekindle some parts of your gray or lost knowledge, well, that i don't know but you are still reading.

I woke up today and I rekindled in the farmer's instinct. It is a simply philosophy to success that is well-known to all. It is not something thought in the classrooms. Yet, everyone learns it. By the virtue of life, everyone knows it. Then I wonder why anyone would still be unsuccessful in this life. I wonder why we need a Brian Tracy or a Fela Durotoye to be the King that we already are. Maybe you'd find an answer at the end of this article. Are you still reading? Wow!

Ok. Let's go there!

By the virtue of the name that he is called, and the conscious/unconscious acceptance of it, a farmer learns, and learns over and over again, all the skills that he needs and can learn to make cultivation habitual, convenient and utmost, profitable.

In the beginning, he has the mental picture of the end. He is aware of the toilings to be made. He is aware of the weather and seasons. He knows harvest-time is a subject of sow-time with respect to the weather and season.

Like any business man, he is calculatively aware of his mean turnover, below which a loss would be recorded; a non-acceptance level.

After all these prequisite skills, he never goes to sleep. He put his idea to test. And just like a believer, his faith is high. He is optimistic. He is aware of probable challenges. However, he is not daunted because  he knows that "the only thing you see when youtake your eyes off your goals, are distrations".

He then acquires the right tools to prepare the farm for sowing. He does prepares. He keeps his tools in good shape. he can't afford damages to them. At least, avoidable amages. Afterwards, he sows!!! WOW!
He actually plants the seeds?


Think this is the right time to sleep? Nah, dear reader!

He comes at scheduled periods to weed!Thus, creating an enabling environment for the growth of his seeds. He allows them to grow. A more important facto here is that, he KNOWS that Time is imperative.

Unlike a Yahoo! boy, he is not in a haste to wait the appropriate time for the seeds to grow and be matured enough to be ready for harvest. He understands the power of patience! Understand that while he waits, he is not sleeping. Waiting does not mean sleep. Waiting probably means in this context the period to allow growth and prepare for harvest.

While he waits also, he is aware of the probable attacks from pests in all forms: insects, animals and human beings alike. He wades an unending war them. He walks in the wake of every morning and in the dark of the nights protecting his crops. He is ready to die in the cause of a definite success. Remember, whatever that is not worth dying is not worth lliving for. He is just a Soldier!


During harvest, he know how to harvest. After harvest, he know how to sell. Just before selling, he reserves for his household. He keeps some grains to be sowed again. Then he pushes the rest to the market.

Now, his dream has been accomplished you think? Stop reading and get busy!!!

True success is an accummulation of small successes. This he knows so well ans believes iin. You what happens next? Now,He know how to succeed. He had succeeded once. He knows what if feels like to succeed because he had succeeded once again. He would want to succeed again then the whole process begins again! the same way, if you think this article makes sense, you can read again. You had probably not read means to some of my thoughts. Maybe i did not present them well enough.

Success can be calculated. It all depends on how badly you want it and how badly you crave for it.

This is off-my-desk. In a more organised mood, I will put this up fpr a re-write. Maybe you might want to buy.

If you have gotten this far in this article, you hard probably spent a while reading! Do you want to do this again? No, I suppose. Better imbibe the farmer's instinct then and live with it all your life. Like this, you'd safe alot of money buying motivational books


O ti remi jo! i am tired. See ya again!!