Chapter 3 Cultivate good soil to plant good flowers

Sometimes you have to force the eager heart to stop, to do nothing, just quietly waiting to be nourished slowly. My father studied gardening and was very good at planting flowers and weeds.When I was five years old, our family moved to a farm in Taichung because of my father's job transfer, which had a large garden. In his spare time, his father was planting flowers on the ground.I have observed that it is a lot of work to prepare before planting flowers, and it is not pleasant.It takes a lot of hard work just to collect garbage for composting, and you have to endure the pungent smell and annoying mosquitoes and flies.But my father said: Only when these steps are handled in a down-to-earth manner can the soil be fertile.

In the process of cultivating the soil, we often complained to our father: Are we going to feed the mud with these leftovers?The smell of corruption is so bad!But his father ignored his family's criticism and went deep into the wild land to live with mosquitoes and flies. I often ask my father in a hurry: when should we sow seeds?My father always smiled and said: Don't worry, don't worry, sowing depends on the weather, don't rush. Various plants have different planting seasons.Without the right timing, it's easy to lose all your credit.Besides, even if the season is right, the soil is not yet ready, and if you try to plant it, you will still not be able to grow plump flowers and trees.

Several months have passed. When my mother and I finished harvesting the loquats we planted in the evening, and my father was brewing grape wine in the backyard, and enjoying the fragrance of roses in the evening wind, my little heart gradually realized the preparatory work. It is as important a job as it is to officially start working hard.As long as you choose the battlefield that suits you, patience and perseverance are often more conducive to success than temporary momentum! Cultivate good soil, plant good flowers, complement each other!Bloom good flowers, bear good fruits, and dreams are endless.

Falling flowers are not ruthless things; they turn into spring mud to protect flowers more.This is the cherishment of feelings; it is also the beginning of hope in the world. Silently get ready to plow; wait patiently for good times to come Happiness is the seed of everyone's dream. When I put forward this statement in a speech titled Grasping the Happiness You Want, many audience members agreed and shared their life experiences with me on the spot. All kinds of touches have continued to this day. Since happiness is indeed the seed of everyone's dream, what everyone is most concerned about is: how to make it germinate, grow, bloom, and bear fruit?What works, and where do you start?

Thinking of this, I have another new realization. Only by cultivating good soil can we plant good flowers. Yes, before we are determined to bravely cultivate the seeds of our dreams, we actually need a lot of preparation and enough energy and nutrients to allow the seeds of our dreams to germinate, grow, and bear fruit. It takes a lot of work to prepare and cultivate fertile soil, and it is really not easy to endure many monotonous and uninteresting processes.If you can survive this boring period, it will be easier to succeed in planting in the future. Cultivate soil, plant flowers. In contrast, planting flowers is much more interesting than cultivating soil.

A seed, from germination to growth, from flowering to fruiting, is full of surprise and joy.An inch of green bud or a flower is a concrete and visible sense of accomplishment. In contrast, the process of cultivating soil is extremely boring.In particular, the most unbearable is the lengthy and tedious process.It is often paid silently, without seeing the progress at all.No matter how hard you dig the soil and fertilize carefully, the changes and reactions of the soil itself are minimal, and there is no way to give immediate feedback to people. Even, sometimes you have to force the heart that is eager to plant flowers and plants to stop, do nothing, just quietly wait for the soil to go fallow and slowly nourish until it regains the ability to plant.This process is really a great torture for those who are anxious to succeed!

Don't expect all your efforts to have immediate results Edison, an American inventor, said: Everything belongs to those who wait while continuing to act. Many times in life, we must use it to prepare beforehand. The more adequately and extensively we prepare, the more effective the preparation will be when we start working hard. Single friends, before you meet a suitable partner, instead of doing nothing or complaining, you might as well manage yourself carefully and develop more interests and expertise.One day, when the predestined person in your life appears, the other person will find that you are a person who speaks very connotatively and lives very interestingly.

A successful salesman, before engaging in sales work, if he already has a good interpersonal relationship and builds a rich network of contacts, the sales work will naturally go smoothly. On the contrary, if you wait until you start working in sales before starting to visit your former classmates and friends and re-establish your network, it will be very difficult. Those friends who haven't been in touch for a long time, once they find out that his sudden visit is to sell things, they must avoid it in a hurry.No matter how good his sales skills are and how effective his products are, he still can't move people's hearts.Even if you barely make a deal once or twice, you will feel powerless.As soon as I started working, I fell into a big bottleneck before I officially moved forward.How did you know the reality was so cruel when you were so ambitious at the beginning?

This example can also be used to encourage friends who want to break through the bottleneck of life.Sometimes, we will inevitably encounter the bottom of our life, as if we can do nothing about it.Successive setbacks will make us have great doubts about ourselves, and ask ourselves again and again: Should I persevere? If you are sure that the direction you have chosen has development potential, and you are determined to work hard, as long as resources permit, don't give up too early.Sometimes, it's really just not enough preparation, or just not the right time. At this time, you might as well dive in for a while, reflect on yourself, and see what parts can be strengthened and worked harder?Just like those heroes who hide in the mountains and practice kung fu in martial arts novels, they are determined to impress the people in the martial arts world when they come back out of the rivers and lakes.

In a successful life, sometimes times create heroes, and sometimes heroes create times.But no matter whether the times create heroes or the heroes create times, the key to both is that the heroes have made complete preparations in order to seize the opportunity in time, or because they are accumulating energy in the submerged, they can start a new situation with the opportunity!