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Paying Attention With Patience By Expert Author: Kenrick Cleveland
View Summary \| Submitted: 2007-10-06 \| Word Count: 341 words

When I was a kid I was raised on a farm. I used to help my grandpa plant fruit trees. Some of them were hybrids - really cute little trees.

As we were planting the dwarf hybrid apple trees, I said to him, "Grandpa, I just can't wait for these apples to grow. It's a little tree, but even dwarf trees have fruit, right?"

Grandpa said, "Kenrick, this tree needs to be planted, needs to be nurtured, needs to grow, and mature, and it will be several years before these trees give us apples we can eat."

In business, we don't necessarily have to wait years before the fruits of our labor are available to us. We do have to plant the seeds, nurture and tend to our businesses as they grow.

Hard work, time, sweat, investment for more education--these are all things I happily engage in as they all result in a tree with more fruit.

And through growth periods, what can carry us through?

Watching my students over the years as they bear the fruits of their labor as a result of persuasion training is an amazing process. We all grow together, learn from each other, and thrive on the richness of our diverse backgrounds.

Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

Patient attention. This is a concept I want to explore with those of you who feel they are struggling with a huge amount of information that seems to be opening itself up to you.

New students tend to get frustrated when learning a new discipline--karate, music theory, a new language--but I caution my students not to be too hard on themselves. Our conscious minds can only hold so much information, but our other than conscious, if we are giving the proper attention and putting in our time, is definitely picking up the slack.

In order to "get it" you need to be present. You have to have the "attention" part in play for it to begin to bear fruit.

About the Author/Author Bio

Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.

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