The Chinese Bamboo Tree

Zig Ziglar, says that the Chinese bamboo tree when planted, watered, and nurtured for an entire growing season doesn’t outwardly grow as much as an inch. Then, after the second growing season, a season in which the farmer takes extra care to water, fertilize and care for the bamboo tree, the tree still hasn’t sprouted. So it goes as the sun rises and sets for four solid years. The farmer and his wife have nothing tangible to show for all of their labour trying to grow the tree.

Then, along comes year five.

In the fifth year that Chinese bamboo tree seed finally sprouts and the bamboo tree grows up to 90 feet in just one growing season! Or so it seems.

Without a strong burning desire you will give up quickly and you won‘t achieve what you had in mind.

Is your desire important enough? Do you want it so badly that you know with absolute certainty you will positively never ever give up?

Will you succumb to a need for immediate gratification or can you keep your eye on the prize?

Do you have the desire to make positive choices moment by moment and take positive action steps toward your burning desire? If no, then why are you prepared to persist with your existing behaviour? What benefits are you getting out of it?

When you achieve your burning desire how will you feel? What does it look like to you? What will you hear? What will people say to you?