Success Breeds Success

There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning corn on his farm. 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 the competition with yours each year?” The reporter asked. “Why brother?”

The farmer replied, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen grains from the ripening corn and swirls them 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 have to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors to grow good corn too.”

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 the 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 too. 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, and all.

“Success breeds success.”

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