Farmers Dream: Tapping into the Process

Welcome back to another episode of Halftime Talks. My name is Rahim Rasul, and you’re listening to the podcast that recognizes that in the middle of your game of life, whether you’re by 10 or down by 20, we all need halftime talks to uplift us, inspire us and challenge us to bring that level of performance it’s gonna take to win the game. So I’m gonna try to rhyme, but they can’t run like this. So you’re listening to halftime talks. We’re gonna start like we always do, by focusing our mind and orienting it to an amazing place. Today, I want to appreciate all the manner of breadcrumbs we leave for ourself, that we leave for ourselves that make us feel better along the way, be it the photography, be it the journal entries, be it the appreciation, be it our body of work that are capable of encapsulating where we were in a given moment.

And as soon as we pick up one of those tokens, those breadcrumbs and look at witness were transported back into a time, a time when it was working, a time where we can truly appreciate the value of how far we’ve come since then, and that that is a beautiful feeling, and that’s Why I want to dedicate this appreciation to those breadcrumbs. Keep leaving them and keep noticing them. I want to begin this by by declaring that I have an a mission that I’ve been working on this episode for a while. The idea was very clear to me, but to build it for you guys is something that’s taken some time.

So this is an episode called the farmer’s dream. It talks about the process. We’re talking about process and understanding what we have. I really hope you enjoy it. There’s a lot of little nuggets in here, that that I hope you capture and gather and harness and use. So in the meantime, as we prepare for this episode, just take a second and and breathe in and do whatever it takes to get that mind right, because we’re about to go. Let’s go. You. Our story today takes place hundreds of years ago, before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. There are clusters of towns that are surrounding this adjacent port city, and in this port city, you had ships that came from far and wide lands abroad to engage in commerce with the magnificent wares of this region.

Our main character 20, in his early 20s, he’s been a farmer his whole life, and when he goes and brings his wares to market. He hears of the adventure from the sailors. He hears exotic tales and stories from lands and customs and food that are far beyond his comprehension. Therefore, you feel trapped in your hometown. It feels like he doesn’t have, also what it takes to set sail on an adventure, to experience those things, and that’s where he finds his wise old guide. Now, this is a gentleman who’s been around the world, who’s gathered wealth and fortune and is ready to retire into the next phase of his life.

And frustrated, the young man stood there, our old, wise man recognizes it and approaches him. The young man tells his tale, tell his grievance, tells his frustration of wanting to go and be something in the world, and they strike a deal. The older gentleman, wise in his age and have crafted many deals in his lifetime, proposed, simply put, if you show me how to farm, how to bring a crop to harvest and to marketplace over the course of one season, I will provide you all the necessary resources and teach you what it takes to be successful at anything you aspire to be out in the world.

World, it was pretty straightforward deal. The hands shook and the adventure between them would begin phase one. The young man says that before we can visualize the crop that we are going to bring to market, we have to first identify and determine the seed that we want to plant, and in doing that, we also have to keep in mind the receptivity of the earth for making that possible, because the earth works in cycles, and you want to come in on the right cycle with the right seed. Phase three, they wake up in the pre Dawn hours of the early morning to avoid the noon sun from hitting their back to sow the seeds.

And as they sow the seeds and push the seed into the earth at the ripe death, so it can take root in the intelligence of the earth paired with the intelligence of the seed who has its own knowing of how to ultimately fulfill its potential as the crop that will be taken to market. They work together. Ah, phase four. As the crop begins to start rising from the earth, they start knowing that a little bit of its leaves are being chewed away, and they notice that a little bit of weeds are starting to grow between the crops. They know they must protect the crop. You gotta build a fence and also get rid of the weeds.

In the next phase, he teaches him that we have to know when it is time to harvest. If we pull it too early, that’s not great. And if we wait too long, then we are not giving our crop the chance to fully live. And we also have to handle it delicately, because we gotta be able to present it to the marketplace. The last phase delivery, the young man informs our old, wise man. This is the most crucial part. This is why we do what we do, to bring it to market, to launch it into the world. So we must present it in a way that the world can receive it.

Don’t expect other people to see and understand the complexity of what you know exists right here. Don’t expect them to see the magic that we were privy to along the entire way. All they want is their product. So therefore we have to present it well. So when presenting it well, it sold well, and everybody had a smile on their face. The old man was really surprised that this was the process to bring the crop from seed to market. The old man looks at our young man and says, I will fulfill the contract. So he takes him to the supply store, and the young man gathers all the supplies he thinks he’ll need for this next journey of his life.

At the end, before they depart, the young man has his supplies on hand, and he’s all but ready to ride off into the world. The young man thinks that the supplies were only part of the deal that they struck. Initially, he thanks the wise man for being so gracious, but in the back of his mind, he has that nagging suspicion that he should really hold that guy up to his promise. So he looks at him and ask, What about the keys to success? The old man stops, pauses, looks at him with a befuddled look on his face, and the old man says to him, Son, everything that you’ve taught me in this process of taking a seed into launching a crop into market, possessed all the necessary understandings it takes to be successful in the world, within you is the innate knowledge of.

It takes you do not need my permission slip to venture into the unknown. For you already have taught me exactly what’s required. Your seed is your dream. Know your dream and relationship to the world. Prepare the land. Understand that in order for the seed to grow, it must live within fertile soil, to soil free of anything that will inhibit its growth. And as you sow that dream into the soil of your world, understand that a lot of it will be occurring below the surface, within the the womb of the earth, and you may not see the buds emerge as soon as you want. The next thing you taught me, which is necessary is that we have to protect our seed as it begins to grow.

We must construct a fence, not letting in any doubters, anything that will feed and feast on our dream for its own benefit, and understand that the weeds grow naturally, and we must prune them. And there’s a time when you want to see perfection, but you must know when to harvest, and after you harvest, it is incumbent upon you to present your product to the world, independent of the world’s ability to understand the magical nature of what you’ve created. So you do not need me to share with you the keys of life where you have innately discovered them through your own experience, and understand that your continued experience will continue to give you more detailed insights, more conceptual understandings, more evidentiary backing up of what you have taught me here today, so you are as prepared as you will ever be to face any trial, any challenge of the world, because within you is the blueprint for Bringing seed to market, and so your farmer’s dream can go forth knowing it’s good.

So the young man drives also to the sunset and does some cool things in the world. That’s the farmer’s dream. That’s another episode of halftime talks, and I’m glad I could share with you. I wonder what you think about it. It’s a cool story. We’re working on it for a while. Hopefully I did it justice. If you enjoyed this episode, then you’re definitely also going to enjoy episode 32 umbrella theory, as well as episode number 41 acres of diamonds revisited. Our entire library is available on our website, halftimetalks.net as well as the iTunes podcast library. While you’re on there, do us a favor, SUBSCRIBE and leave a review.

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