Another Serving of Maple

So like I said the other day, my Maple tree is in full helicopter mode and is dropping tens of thousands of seeds and this tree does this every year. Okay, one year we had a late freeze and it killed all the seeds, flowers and the like so we didn’t have seeds or fruit or nuts for that matter-but every single one of those trees made up for it the next year by doubling their output.

So here is the lesson to be learned from a tree; well, one lesson because there are actually more lessons to be learned from trees than just one. The Maple ‘births’ as many seeds as it can, it lets them drop and scatter to the earth-that is its job, to multiply itself. But of those thousands and thousands of seeds how many do you think actually grow into Maple trees? Very, very few. But does the Maple stop developing and disseminating seeds? Heck no! The Maple does what it is supposed to do-it puts out the seeds, it is up to the universe to bring those seeds to the right place.

You are no different; your only job is to do the best you can and trust that the universe will do the rest. Some of your ‘seeds’ will fall on poor soil, some will fall to the wrong place at the wrong time but some will fall in the right place, at the right time and you will see your harvest. But you have to keep putting out the seeds!