How To Find More Diamonds In Less Time.

Rejecting resistance means letting life happen to you and for you.

“I’ve made over 50 calls this week with no love yet,” my friend Dave shared in an anxious late Friday call. He’s selling an innovative product with exceptionally positive field results. So his laments spawned a trove of unspoken questions.

As a world-class athlete and coach, Dave would be the first to tell you if the student doesn’t get it, the teacher is failing. Frustration blooms. In reality, Dave is sowing seeds now he’ll reap later. There’s a selling season for his product, he’s just early. In different terms, while the ice cream truck music is miles away, Dave’s already in your neighborhood selling Rocket Pops. Timing can be everything and persistence always wins.

We all want instant results. It took 116 years to develop Instant Oatmeal. Here’s a chronicle:

1850- Ferdinand Schumacher founds German Mills American Cereal Company in Akron, OH.

1877- The first breakfast cereal trademark, Quaker Oats, is registered with the US Patent Office. Selecting the Quaker name as a symbol of quality and value as well as a figure of a man in “Quaker garb”’, are distinguishing elements of the trademark.

1881- Henry Parsons Crowell acquires the bankrupt Quaker Mill in Ravenna, OH, including the…