By Angi Bair

A gardener once planted a bamboo seed. He watered it...and watered it...
Three months later — nothing.
Still, he kept watering.
A year went by — still nothing.
People around him started to doubt him. They told him to give up, said it was never going to grow.
But he kept watering.
Two years passed. Then three. Then four.
Everyone else had long since given up on his dream.
Five years went by — and still, nothing.
But the gardener stayed faithful.
Then, five years and six weeks later — he had an 80-foot-tall bamboo tree!

Now compare that to the gardener who plants vegetables. Within just a few days, he starts to see sprouts. Thirty to sixty days later, he's harvesting his crops.
Both gardeners got a harvest. Both had healthy, mature plants. But the timelines — the gestation periods — were completely different.

Our ideas, goals, and dreams are like those seeds. We plant them in the fertile soil of our minds. Sometimes we see results right away. Other times, we have to wait — and wait — and wait.
As long as we continue to nourish and tend to our ideas, they will grow into maturity, and we will be able to harvest the results we seek.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you think about something and it seems to show up instantly — and other times, it takes months or even years to happen?
That’s a natural universal law.
Everything has a finite gestation period.
No idea or goal will manifest faster than the time it needs to reach maturity. And there’s no set timeline — each goal, each thought, each dream is unique.

The best way to understand this is by thinking of a pregnancy.
We know a baby is coming in approximately nine months.
After four months, do we start doubting that the baby is on its way?
Would we even want the baby to come early at five or six months?
No — we want the baby to come when it’s fully formed, fully developed, at its absolute best.
And when nine months and a day pass, does the woman lose faith that the baby is coming?
Of course not! She grows more certain with each passing day that she is closer and closer to meeting her child.

It’s exactly the same with our goals, thoughts, and ideas.
We plant the seeds of what we want to create.
We nourish them with hope, faith, and excitement.
We prepare ourselves to receive them.
And then we move forward in faith, KNOWING they are on their way.
Will it take two weeks, five months, or five years?
Does it even matter?
The goal will arrive when it’s fully ready — when it has reached its maturity and when we are fully prepared to receive it.

We don’t want a “premature baby” goal, do we?
And if our goal seems overdue, should we lose faith?
Or should we, like the expectant mother, grow more certain each day that our goal is closer than ever?

We can't control the gestation period of our dreams.
But we can control how we respond.
If we keep nourishing our dreams with faith and excitement, they will grow.
If we give up on them, we starve them.

Hold on.
Keep the faith.
Keep the excitement alive.
And watch the magnificent results you are capable of creating.

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