{"id":814,"date":"2011-03-02T05:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2011-03-02T05:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:51:48","slug":"be-like-johnny-appleseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Be like Johnny Appleseed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Don&#8217;t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                      &#8211;Robert Louis Stevenson, Poet and Novelist<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with someone, getting their contact info and scheduling a call is planting a seed.   Sending emails, handing out flyers, business cards, classifieds, billboards = NOT planting a seed<\/p>\n<p>Having someone experience the results or your product or service first hand or see a live presentation is planting a seed.  Dropping off a brochure, DVD or other material for someone to &#8220;look at&#8221; = NOT planting a seed.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting to all decision makers at once is planting a seed.  Letting them talk to their spouse, significant other, accountant, plumber or dog-catcher about it = NOT planting a seed.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the actions necessary to be successful is planting a seed.  Wishing, hoping, thinking about it, waiting for &#8220;it&#8221; to happen or your reps to do more = NOT planting a seed.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing about seeds&#8230;.some fall on hard ground, some are swept away by the wind and rain, some are eaten by birds and some grow to produce fruit with more seeds.<\/p>\n<p>The faith of a seasoned farmer, based upon experience is one thing and true faith in the process is another.  Both a seasoned farmer and a first time farmer must have faith in the process. <\/p>\n<p>The process works&#8230;when you work it.<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.&#8221; &#8211;Robert Louis Stevenson, Poet and Novelist Speaking with someone, getting their contact info and scheduling a call is planting a seed. Sending emails, handing out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}