How To Plant Seeds 

by Coach Frank Sagasta 2024

How to plant the seeds by listening, learning, and taking action in growing.  A good definition or word is TRAINING!! 

Why training?

Because it is an experience that changes our whole chemistry, biology, and psychology.  In any given situation, if one training remains unchanged, you can say that one has never listened, learned, or taken action.  When we cease to train.  We have become accustomed or conformed to the stagnation of that life.  Thus we’ve allowed ourselves to become old and we wither away like the obnoxious weeds, or sand that blow during the summer winds. 

All too often we cross the paths of people that are 25 and old and others that are still young at 80.  Why is this?  It is all a matter of attitude.  It is all a matter of training.  The successful person is always listening, learning, and taking action.  They are always looking for new opportunities to train.  To grow.  To develop.  And to become a better and more effective person.  

However, all training requires a price and a risk.  The price is time, energy, and effort.  The risk requires that we get out of our comfort zone.  Our tolerance for discomfort is too low or training and development is greatly limited.  Until one is willing to get out of this comfort zone, they will not become a better person.  And never worry over the timing of when you should start just start.  Don’t worry about not having enough opportunities in life.  I once read; When fear closes one door, Faith opens another one.  Golden opportunities will never become exhausted, because every time we seize one, at least one more appears.  

This is why, I’ve always thought of opportunities like sowing and reaping; A farmer would never plant corn and expect to harvest wheat.  Likewise, we can never plant negativity and harvest positivity.  I know it might come as a great astonishment to some people that they cannot plant hate and harvest love.  If anyone wants to plant pictures in the mind of being poor, you will always reap poverty.  If you think of yourself as a living and breathing mechanism that can be productive and overcome limitations.  You will harvest greatness and success at every opportunity.  

The farmer has been trained.  The farmer has listened.  The farmer has learned.  The farmer has taken action towards sewing so that he or she may reap.  The old book (Bible) says: “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.”  There is no greater truth known to mankind.  Therefore, whatever we want out of life, we must take the responsibility and actions of first planting the seeds.  We must listen to the season's instructions.  We must learn when to plant; what to plant and where to plant.  The seeds we plant will always determine what you are going to harvest.  You can’t get back what you have planted.  James Allen wrote in As a Man Thinketh, “As the plant springs from, and could not be without the seed, so every man springs from the hidden seeds of thoughts, and could not have appeared without them.”  James Allen continues, “Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.  A man will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.  The vision that you glorify your mind, the ideal that you treat in your heart. This you will build your life by.  This you will become.” 

“What happens to us is less significant than what happens within us.” 

~ Lewis L. Mann 

With regards and gratitude, 

Coach Frank Sagasta

Leadership & Life-Skills Expert   

H.O.P.E LLC,