Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn’t say, “If you need, you will reap.” It says “If you plant you will reap.” The guy says “I really need to reap.” Then you really need to plant.
- Jim Rohn

How many times have you heard someone say they need to reap? You probably have heard it expressed in different terms, but the underlying idea is the always the same. Most of the time this “need to reap” is stated along the lines of “I need more money,” or, “I don’t have enough money.” Does the “need to reap” sounds more familiar to you now!

I see a growing number of people who expect to have something they either want or need given to them. These people have any number of excuses for not working to get these things. Their excuses are often accompanied by reasons why these things should just be given to them. The concept of “planting” appears to be foreign to these people. These are the people who, according to Jim Rohn, say, “I really need to reap.” Unfortunately most of these people will never plant, and consequently they will never reap.

“Planting” isn’t always easy, and it isn’t always fun. But it is necessary if you really want to reap. But I’m afraid the concept of “planting” is increasing being replaced by the lure of “getting rich quick.” We live in a country filled with opportunities, but you have to do something in order to take advantage of those opportunities. That something you have to do is what Jim Rohn calls planting!

For what its worth, when did you last "plant”?