7 Principles That Made Me a Full-Time Writer
7 Audacious Principles That Will Boost Your Writing Skills

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Don’t just plant a tree, plant an orchard.- Benjamin Hardy

Millions of people live their priceless lives without even understand this principle.

Unfortunately, many of us live and die without having the opportunity to be taught about the principle of sowing and reaping.

The first person that taught me this principle was my all-time best mentor, Mr. Jim Rohn.

The lesson about the sowing started with the sower. He was ambitious and had excellent seed. The first part of the seed planting went wrong, cause birds ate them.

Jim Rohn then said, lesson number one: the birds are gonna get some of the seed.

Yet, you ask yourself: what does that mean?

Jim continues with another parable:

I’ll have an important meeting and I invite John my best friend, to be there, because it can be good for him too. He says he’ll be there Tuesday night. Tuesday night I show up, John isn’t there. I think: I wonder why John didn’t make it.

The answer: the birds.

I never forgot those lessons, and probably half of the complaints I did in the past disappeared because of the birds.

There will always be something getting in people’s way to avoid them pursue their dreams. And we have always two choices:

Chasing the birds;

Keep sowing.

If you opt to chase the birds, you’ll have a problem. You leave the field. Which will distract you from your future. Birds will always be there. But you have a choice. You will always have the power to decide.

I usually use a fabulous phrase Jim Rohn taught me when things get weird: isn’t that interesting? And then I move on. I never think about it again.

If you keep sowing, you can always sow so much more than the birds can’t get, cause there aren’t enough birds.

You will come to cross many birds, cause there are birds everywhere (actually, you can call them anything, even nasty words). In your family, in your work, even in your head.

But remember, you have always two choices.

Chasing birds or keep sowing.
['Nuno Fabiao']
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