Why You Aren’t Getting Fast Results

If you aren’t producing the results you want right now, it’s because you didn’t do the work you needed to do some time ago. One of the fundamental laws of our Universe is that you plant in spring and you harvest in fall. Not to plant in the spring means later having nothing to harvest.

When it’s time to harvest, you can run around taking massive action. You can rush to plant more seeds than ever, and you can plant them with lightning speed. You can throw water on these seeds, and you can fertilize them. Still you will have nothing to harvest now. For you to have something to harvest now, you would have had to the long, patient, lonely work when it was time for planting.

You aren’t getting fast results now because fast results defy the laws of nature.

If you find yourself in need of fast results, then you aren’t doing some part of the long, patient, lonely work that producing that result requires. In business-to-business sales, your number at the end of the quarter is based on the work that you did (or should have done) two quarters ago, not the work you did in the final weeks. Those seeds needed to have been planted long before harvest time.

Our ability to rationalize our actions distorts the laws of nature. We overestimate what we can achieve in a short period of time, and we underestimate what we can achieve over a long period of time. We rationalize that we can put the work off until tomorrow and still achieve our goals, but we can’t. They can’t be achieved in the short period of time we have available when the reality of time finally eliminates our ability rationalize. Once the time is gone, it’s gone.

Whatever result you want is possible. To get that result you simply have to pay the price in advance. Most of those results require that you do the lonely work of planting in the spring.