Success Breeds Success - Email from a HP Reader

Thank you for the many bits of valuable information you share with everyone. Since you e-mail from the GeraniumFarm.org and are celebrating the third anniversary of your column I wanted to share this with you:

Success Breeds Success (Author Unknown)

There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning corn. Each year, he entered his corn in the State Fair where it won honors and prizes.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew his corn. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbors' corn also improves. So it is in other dimensions and areas of life!

Those who choose to be in harmony must help their neighbors and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others live well. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.

Success does not happen in isolation; it is most often a participatory and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas and new knowledge with your family, friends, team members and neighbors.

As they say: "Success breeds Success."

Here's looking forward to another year of sharing award-winning seeds from Debbie@GeraniumFarm!

Sincerely,
Melody

Thanks Melody for your email and story!