Investing In Tomorrow
May 8, 2009
During my campaign for student council elections I handed out seed packets to all of the students. The concept was simple – investing in tomorrow by planting seeds today. If we intend to see any great and vast future we need to do things today that are congruent with that future.
Here is a part of my speech…
What is a seed? A seed is a new beginning, a potential that may sprout a fresh fruit, vegetable or flower. Isnt it amazing how just a single seed can become a plant, feed a nation and outlive the people that planted it.
Everything great that has ever existed in the history of the world has started from the seed of a single idea. Every idea starts with a seed of inspiration in a person’s mind. Ultimately they were investing in tomorrow by imagining the possibilities of what could be today. The process from conception to reality may seem like a large daunting task but as we all know…Rome wasn’t built in a day.
One of the seeds I have planted has been in a project called Mission Trip America or MTA. For those of you who do not know what MTA is…its an organization that is working with the school on a pilot program to serve underprivileged populations with complimentary chiropractic care here in America. At its conception Brian (the other founder) and I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We were stumbling into uncharted territory. Month after month, meeting after meeting, we continually chiseled away at what seemed to be gigantic task. We could never really see the progress we were actually making…similar to the seeds that are planted in a garden.
A friend came up to me this morning and told me he planted the seeds I gave him and is now starting to see a little sprouting. Truthfully they are probably going to look the same to the naked eye for the next few weeks but one day he’s going to walk outside and see a blossomed flower.
No idea, no matter how inspired, jumps from inspiration to manifestation in one giant leap. To bring any good idea to life it takes lots of attention and lots of hard work.
The giant sequoia doesn’t just shoot up out of nowhere. It takes hundreds of years of development, but the result is the most enormous living organism on the planet.
MTA didn’t just happen. We spent months brainstorming, meeting and chatting. Now we’ve launched a program that has the potential to change the entire way in which chiropractic colleges around the world interact with their surrounding areas.
If we really care about something…it doesn’t matter how much work it takes to get it launched…you’ll see it through to the end.
