Seeds of Greatness

Water the seeds of greatness in your heart. Feed yourself with good diet of the mind, thought and emotion. What you read, think on and look on affects you in both ways; good or bad. Give a chance the seeds of greatness to grow in you by focusing on the positive and reducing negative tendencies. Everything begins small. The skyscraper began with a single brick, the giant oak tree with a tiny acorn. You are just a portion of what you will be tomorrow.

The Chinese have a proverb that says ”a journey of a thousand miles start with a single step”. You may not look like the finished product yet, but if you focus and stay the course you will surely become the vision you have in your mind. Job, a man who suffered so many negative experiences wrote in his book “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase greatly” Job 8:7.

William Shakespeare, a revered writer, in one of his books wrote, “There is a tide in the affairs of men”. He was reflecting on his observation of the turning pages of history and their influence upon our lives. There have been eras in the history of the world in which multiple tide-like influences have impacted our civilization and way of life at nearly the same time. These tides come in like an elevator in a building; they either take you to the penthouse or to the basement. At such times, this is when the seeds of greatness become an asset. The way you respond will either create a monumental benefit where you reach to the pinnacle or be swept by the tide and become a wreck for not exercising due diligence.