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A. PART 1
B. PART 2
Tending Your
Plant
It is not enough to plant/invest on a fertile soil; it is also important
that you tend what you plant/invest. Every successful farmer knows that
planting on a fertile soil alone does not guarantee bumper harvest. What guarantees
bumper harvest is tending the crops you have planted.
If all a farmer needs do to succeed is to plant his crops and go to sleep
until the crops are matured before he comes to harvest them, every farmer would
be successful and many more people will want to venture into farming.
At the beginning of every winter or rainy season, it is easier for every
farmer to plant, but it is not easy for every farmer to tend his plants. As the
plants grow, they grow alongside weeds and pests. To ensure bumper harvest, it
is the responsibility of the farmer to control both weeds and the pests.
What separates a successful farmer from the unsuccessful one is his
ability to control the weeds and pests that are struggling to choke and destroy
the plants.
Dear reader, you may not be a farmer, but the fact is: there are vital
lessons you can learn from the analogy of the farmer and his crop planting
activities. It is not enough to establish a business, trade or vocation. It is
also important that you manage your business effectively.
As your business grows, there are “weeds and pests” that will grow
alongside your business. It is your responsibility to control the weeds and
pests. “Weeds and pests” represent all the things that can outgrow your
business and choke it up. The lists of weeds and pests that can destroy your
business are inexhaustible. Most of them are so tiny that at the moment they look
harmless, but at the end of the day, they will turn out to be the “little foxes
that destroy the vines.”
In his book, WALKING IN FINANCIAL FREEDOM, Engineer (Pastor)
Samson Makinwa narrated the story of a doctor who started his clinic from a
small apartment. Within a short time, he had moved into a flat. His medical
practice was growing fast. He bought several cars and he was living fine.
But there were “weeds and pests” that were growing with his fast growing
hospital, which he had been overlooking. The doctor had an uncontrollable
sexual appetite. He used to sleep with his female employees. He equally used to
sleep with the patients in his hospital and in return, he would cancel their
medical bills.
These patients would also go and tell their female friends how nice the
doctor was. The doctor would treat them and they would say they didn’t have the
money to pay their bills. The doctor would sleep with them and cancel their
debts. These “weeds and pests” continued to choke the doctor’s hospital until
he sold off his cars and other assets and returned to square one.
There is a great lesson to learn here. To this doctor, those medical
bills meant little to him. If he traded the medical bills for endless rounds of
sexual pleasure, they would not affect his business.
But he was wrong! Unknown to him, the “weeds and pests” were even growing
faster than his hospital. His insatiable sexual appetites were the weeds and
pests that chocked his fast growing hospital.
Devising a
Strategy for Business Success
Dear friend, there is no assurance of success, if you don’t tend your
plant (manage your business). A successful farmer does not joke with the weeds and
pests that are growing with his plants. He knows that if he allowed them, they
would choke up his plants and he would have little or nothing to harvest that
year.
In order to ensure bumper harvest, the farmer would devise strategy for
controlling the weeds and pests. It is either he goes for herbicides and
pesticides or he employs farm labourers or himself to clear the weeds that are
growing with his plants. And once the weeds are cleared, the chances of the
pests growing and multiplying are reduced to the barest minimum.
What strategy are you devising to control the “weeds and pests” that are
growing with your business? The fact is: if you overlook the “weeds and pests,”
they would run down your business. They would not stop growing as long as your
business is growing. They may appear insignificant at the moment, but if you
overlook them, they will destroy your business.
The bane of many of us is laziness. After setting up our business, we
become complacent. We feel there is no other thing to do anymore. We fail to realize
that the task of managing our business is on us. We all know that we must
promote, market and manage our business, but we are doing little or nothing
about it.
Proverbs 12:27 says: “The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in
hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.” The weed of laziness
is a killer of businesses. Businesses are not for lazy people. If you are not
willing to work and manage your business, you may end up running down your
business.
Starting from staff punctuality, production, financing, sales and
marketing, accounting, through to customer service, there must be effective
supervision and proper management.
When a problem comes up, how long does it take you to solve it? Where necessary,
do you consult experts to get the problem solved? Management is fundamental to
the success of your business just as control of weeds and pests are fundamental
to the success of every farmer.
Finally, when it comes to sowing and reaping, it doesn’t make sense to be
pessimistic about it. When you sow, you reap what you sow. It all depends on
your effort and perseverance.
Note also that it is not enough to sow; you must sow in a fertile soil,
and you must equally tend your plants. And when applying this principle in our
business, we should establish a business which we have confirmed that it is
lucrative. We should also effectively manage our business.
WHEN YOU FOLLOW THIS PRINCIPLE OF SOWING AND REAPING, YOU HAVE NO CAUSE
TO BE PESSIMISTIC, AS EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT FOR YOU IN THE END.
Until I come your way soon, I urge you to be optimistic and go out to sow
your seed on fertile soil. And as you tend your plant, you will surely reap
bumper harvest in the end.
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