The Seed within the Seed

The Seed within the Seed

 

“And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after it kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after it kind.”

Engrained in every good seed is the potential to become a fruit. And this potential to finally become is fuelled by persistency. That is, as long as a good seed persist on the ground on which it was planted, absorbing moisture, heat, and other agronomic elements it will eventually sprout.

In other words, persistency is highly germane to the fruition of a vision. It is the seed within the vision; and its importance is inexhaustible.

Persistency is the kernel for growth; the fifth essence, so to speak, to every vision. Also, it tells how tough, rigid and resolved the visionary is at building his or her vision from the crust of mediocrity. Knute Rockne captures it this way when he remarked, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

You should see my amazement when I discovered that Napoleon Hill devoted an entire chapter in his magnificent book, “Think and Grow Rich,” to the subject of “persistency.” To be precise, in chapter nine, he was emphatic in defining it as thus: “Persistence is an essential factor in procedure of transmuting desire into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the power of will.”

Hill went a step further in saying, “There may be no heroic connotation to the word “persistence,” but the quality is to the character of a man, what carbon is to steel.” Indeed, persistency makes you tough in your conviction.

Interestingly, anyone can have conviction of a vision without being persistent at it. But no one can be persistent at a vision without having conviction. Invariably, every vision persistently pursued, will produce after its kind it physical equivalent.

When Marconi announced to his friends his invention that could send messages through ether without the aid of a wire, he was scorned and mocked. His friends had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital.

But Marconi was not disturbed by the myopic views of his dear friends. He went further in communicating his invention to the Italian Ministry of Post and Telegraphs asking for funding, but the Minister never concede to his letter, rather referred to the invention as an insane asylum.

The Italian Ambassador to England Annibale Ferrero advised young Marconi to come to England since the Italian government had little or no appreciation for his invention and may not fund it.

Marconi pays much heed to the counsel of Ferrero; he traveled to England. In the process of time, he made series of demonstrations of his communication contraption for the British government between 1896 and 1897. And a land mark demonstration on 13th May, 1897 on which he transmitted Morse code signals over a distance of 3.7 ml. The message read “Are you ready.”

Have you got a vision? Then the question posed by Marconi is directed to you: “Are you ready to be persistent at that vision?” If you are, then, it’s time to give that vision all the persistency that it requires. 

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