Paying Attention With Patience

As a child, I spent a few years living on my grandfather's farm where I helped him with all of the work a farmer does. One of my favorite farm activities was helping him plant little hybrid trees.

I said to him, "Grampa, I can't wait for all the vegetables to grow so we can eat them, but I especially can't wait for the apples from this dwarf tree."

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.

I spend a lot of money on education each year and I put in my time working, studying, reading, because I know that hard work and putting in the time is ultimately growing more fruit.

What carries us through the growth periods, when maybe we don't have exactly what we want?

One of the most satisfying things I experience as a result of teaching persuasion is watching my students as their hard work and study give them even more fruit than they were aware was possible.

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."

The concept of 'patient attention' is important, especially when we're faced with a huge amount of information (like a beginning piano student, or even a beginning persuasion student).

I caution my new students all the time, not to be too hard on themselves for not getting it all right away. Not only is it training the other-than-conscious mind to experience undue stress, but it's really counterproductive. Despite your current level, if you're on the calls, if you're doing the light and sound sessions, if you're thinking about persuasion and your skills daily, then you are getting it. It's sinking in. Please believe me.

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.

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

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