Monday, June 27, 2005

Laws of Nature

We don't have to be a Mendle or a Newton to observe and infer from nature. We don't even have to make significant "discoveries" and contribute to the world's knowledge pool. We will do ourselves a big help by first helping ourself.

I had recieved the following story via email. Maybe it will enlighten a very simple law of nature to us ....

Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, but each apple has just ten seeds. That's 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. It's 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 twenty interviews to get one job. You'll interview forty people to find one good employee. You'll talk to fifty people to sell one
house, one car, one vacuum cleaner, one insurance policy, or a business idea. And you might meet a hundred acquaintances just to find one special friend.

When we understand the "Law of the Seed", we don't get so disappointed. We stop feeling like victims. We learn 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.