As an extraordinary coach, let me share with you a story that I recently heard that might demonstrate to you the precious necessity of helping one another and being there for one another. That means also to coach one another. If you are a coach and you don't have a coach, then after you hear this story, perhaps you will get a coach. I want to point out that what a coach does for you, you can never do for yourself, and one of those things is an outside objective opinion. No matter how good you are or how smart you are, you can never give yourself an outside objective opinion. It's hard enough to even understand what you hear others say and respond to it as though it was the truth, and of course it is not, which is another blog.
There exists a story about a table that was set for many, many people. The table was set with a variety of foods, all healthy, nutritious, tasty food that everyone could eat. The table was set every day at the same time, but over a period of time everyone sitting at the table, when they came to the table, they seemed emaciated. They seemed as though they were not eating, and the truth is they weren't eating. They weren't eating because they were not able to feed themselves and they weren't able to feed themselves because each of them was fitted with a three-foot spoon. This spoon made it hard for them to put the food into their own mouths because they couldn't reach their mouths.
Each of them dying of hunger, each of them passionate about what they wanted to eat, but not being able to take part in it because the spoon that they had been fitted with just didn't work. After some time, it was figured out that if the person that was three feet from you would fill their spoon with food and feed it to you then you could be sated. In order for that person to do that, though, they would have to have the confidence that you were going to do the same thing for them or that someone, somewhere, was going to do the same thing for them.
This, I believe, demonstrates the seedtime and harvest principle operating in the world that many people deny exists. Many people negate its value because they give to people and the people don't give them anything back. I think the part that they miss is that the person that you give to may not necessarily be the person that you'll receive from, but you will receive. That'll happen whether you believe it or not. When you look back on your life right now, and see the good that you have received, I think you'll have to know that somebody gave you something. If you just evaluated the fact that you are alive, your mother gave you life. Somebody gave you food. Someone gave you knowledge, and you in turn give those things to other people.
Now, certainly, you don't have to be present in this thing in order for these things to be true, but these things are true, and if you are present to them, you can leverage them to a much larger degree. As I complete this short blog, be conscious of the fact that the seedtime and harvest principle does work. Be conscious of the fact that that three-foot spoon that you have, it might not do you any good when it comes to feeding yourself, but it can certainly feed your neighbor. Get about the business of feeding your neighbor and not being so much concerned with how you're going to eat.
Know this, that as you feed others, you'll be fed. The seedtime and harvest principle is alive and well and there's no point in denying it. If this has helped you, if this concept has given you a new idea or two, then fine, I've done my job, and I encourage you to embrace the seedtime and harvest principle by telling somebody else you know about this blog and suggesting that they read it. Of course I end all my blogs the same way I end the first blog, which is, do me a favor and have a good time until the next time.
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