Keep Watering Your Bamboo Tree

Saw this great article online. The article depicts the power of staying faithful to a desire until its manifestation.

Please Note: The following is a reprint of a post by Eric Aronson from www.dashlive.com. All credit for the material goes to Eric.

In the Far East, there is a tree called the Chinese bamboo tree. This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet. It’s almost as if you can actually see the tree growing before your very eyes.

Faith

Well, I’m convinced that life often works in a similar way. You can work for weeks, months and even years on your dream with no visible signs of progress and then, all of a sudden, things take off. Your business becomes profitable beyond your wildest dreams. Your marriage becomes more vibrant and passionate than you ever thought it could be. Your contribution to your church, social organization and community becomes more significant than you have ever imagined.

Yet, all of this requires one thing – faith. The growers of the Chinese bamboo tree have faith that if they keep watering and fertilizing the ground, the tree will break through. Well, you must have the same kind of faith in your bamboo tree, whether it is to run a successful business, win a Pulitzer Prize, raise well-adjusted children, or what have you. You must have faith that if you keep making the calls, honing your craft, reading to your children, reaching out to your spouse or asking for donations, that you too will see rapid growth in the future.

The Gestation Period

This is the hard part for most of us. We get so excited about the idea that’s been planted inside of us that we simply can’t wait for it to blossom. Therefore, within days or weeks of the initial planting, we become discouraged and begin to second guess ourselves.

Sometimes, in our doubt, we dig up our seed and plant it elsewhere, in hopes that it will quickly rise in more fertile ground. We see this very often in people who change jobs every year or so. We also see it in people who change churches, organizations and even spouses in the pursuit of greener pastures. More often than not, these people are greatly disappointed when their tree doesn’t grow any faster in the new location.

Other times, people will water the ground for a time but then, quickly become discouraged. They start to wonder if it’s worth all of the effort. This is particularly true when they see their neighbors having success with other trees. They start to think, “What am I doing trying to grow a bamboo tree? If I had planted a lemon tree, I’d have a few lemons by now.” These are the people who return to their old jobs and their old ways. They walk away from their dream in exchange for a “sure thing.”

Keep Watering

Sadly, what they fail to realize is that pursuing your dream is a sure thing if you just don’t give up. So long as you keep watering and fertilizing your dream, it will come to fruition. It may take weeks, take months. It may even take years, but eventually, the roots will take hold and your tree will grow. And when it does, it will grow in remarkable ways.

We’ve seen this happen so many times. Henry Ford had to water his bamboo tree through five business failures before he finally succeeded with the Ford Motor Company. Richard Hooker had to water his bamboo tree for seven years and through 21 rejections by publishers until his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H became a runaway bestseller, spawning a movie and one of the longest-running television series of all-time. Another great bamboo grower was the legendary jockey Eddie Arcaro. Arcaro lost his first 250 races as a jockey before going on to win 17 Triple Crown races and 554 stakes races for total purse earnings of more than $30 million.

Keep Your Faith Alive

Well, you have a bamboo tree inside of you just waiting to break through. So keep watering and believing and you too will be flying high before you know it.

To your success
Ade

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Subjective Prejudice in Action

I wrote an article not long ago about the subjective prejudice consciously or unconsciously directed at people of African descent.

Do you want to see subjective prejudice, of the highest order, in action? You have to watch this video.

After watching the video, I only felt compassion for the woman, you know it takes “faith” to hold on to this type of “prejudice” in the mind! What a waste to misuse the most precious gift of life and get locked in this mindset of “superiority complex”. It must be quite frustrating to go about life in this “state” of mind.

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Only Two Got Into The Promised Land

I am amazed at the beautiful stories told in the great book of Life – The Bible – about how to live a successful life.

I am glad that this great book was written thousands of years ago, within it contains my story and your story – whether we agree with it or not.

There is nothing new under the sun, it is all finished. The play is finished and we like travelers pass through the different plots and plans of this beautiful play called life.

William Blake said:

From this I realize that neither the just nor the wicked are in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil, when it left paradise following the serpent.

William Shakespeare also gave us an insight about this fact in As You like It, Act II, Scene VII:

“All the world’s  a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”

Do not let anyone scare you, strip them down of all their so-called authority. For clothed within you is a power waiting to emerge.

Well if you are still a child, then it is understandable that you still need direction and parental guidance. Probably you are an adult but still a babe in the things of the spirit. In this case seek out those who would help to stir that power within you and not those who want you to depend on them.

Now back to my headline – Only two got to the Promised Land…

We are told that only Caleb and Joshua got into the Promised Land the rest died in the wilderness; do you know the core attributes of these two people?

If I may use the word that many of us can relate to, they were both imaginative people. They believed in a power, higher than them, that resides within whilst the rest that died in the wilderness believed in the reality of what their five senses told them or what some clueless outside authorities told them.

They, Joshua and Caleb, saw themselves as conquerors whilst the others (the majority) saw and felt they were like grasshoppers.

What do you SEE?

Whatever you see mixed with feelings becomes your reality.

To your infinite success.
Ade

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Creative Imagination in Action

Would you like to see Creative Imagination in Action?

Let me share a story I read in one of Neville’s material recently with you:

It’s the story of a young girl who just turned seventeen.

“It was Christmas Eve, and she is sad of heart, for that year she had lost her father in an accident, and she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house. She was untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as a waitress. This night it’s quite late, Christmas Eve, it’s raining. The car is full of laughing boys and girls going home for their Christmas vacation, and she couldn’t conceal the tears.

Luckily for her, it was raining, so she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her tears with rain. Then holding the rail of the streetcar, this is what she did: she said, “This is not rain, why, this is spray from the ocean; and this is not the salt of tears that I taste, for this is the salt of the sea in the wind; this is not San Diego, this is a ship, and I am coming into the Bay of Samoa.”

And there she FELT the REALITY of all that she had IMAGINED.

Then came the end of the journey and all are out.

Ten days later this girl received a letter from a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt, several years before she sailed for Europe, deposited with them three thousand dollars with instructions that if she did not return to America, this money should be paid to her niece. They had just received information of the aunt’s death and were now acting upon her instructions.

One month later, this girl sailed for Samoa.

As she came into the bay, it was late that night and there was salt of the sea in the wind. It was not raining, but there was spray in the air. And she actually felt what she’d felt one month before, only this time she had realized her objective.”

Creative Imagination

That is the power of Creative Imagination in ACTION and to me this is the true art of PRAYER!

We can jump and scream for all we like but if our inner musing does not align with what we are doing on the outside “especially when we think no one is seeing us” we are just making noise. Well, if that jumping and screaming aligns with our inner musing and desire then that act will CAUSE the necessary shift on the outside.

I believe this the best time to be alive. Especially, with all the chaos and confusion around, the world needs people with Creative Imagination. Those who call things that is not as though they were.

As you go about your daily activity, set you creative juice in MOTION.

What do you really WANT?

When you just think of your desire it is a shadow lacking form. When you enter it and assume its truth and it becomes the only reality, and you are faithful to that assumption, very soon it would be made manifested in your world.

To your creative imagination.
Ade

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