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Timing is Everything

Many of us as parents have goals and dreams for our children. We might spend endless hours as an unpaid motivator in the home, trying lift the spirits of our teens and ourselves. Maybe you have applied the positive thinking and mind power theories in your home only to be frustrated with the results?

You might have read a motivational book or attended a seminar and you were told that you only get what you expect. So you applied positive expectation to your dream for your children and currently the dream looks more like a nightmare. Is it possible that the "What you sow, you reap law" has gone wrong for you? Why, you may ask.

The short of a long story is that we often only focus on the surface of the retribution law. It's true that what you sow you reap but what we forget is that there's supposed to be a space between sowing and reaping: it is not an instant process. It is called, "growing up." If you try to reap in the wrong season, you reap frustration. If you try to reap in the wrong season, you do NOT get what you expect and you don't reap what you sowed. It's for this reason most ancient religious texts speak of everything having an order and a season.

Imagine a farmer deciding to reap a crop in the wrong season and later proclaiming he's a failure as a farmer when the harvest fails. You would laugh at him and tell him to look at the calendar. Trouble is, in our own lives and with our children, we do a similar thing far too often and then wonder why things turn out wrong. It's not enough to "name it and claim it" when you're early. If results are contrary to your expectations, go check the season - you might just be before your time.

Don't mistake delay for denial by life. Timing is everything - for this reason, patience is a vital ingredient in success planning. Patience will give you keys to open any door and any heart.

Copyright © 2003 Jill Devine. Female impersonating motivational speaker Jill Devine shares the Armour Plated life lessons at JillDevine.com. Reprinted with permission.

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