Yo today's Q-O-D is the harder the battle the sweeter the victory.

Here we go. So, Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and

Sean Croxton.com we got Les Brown on the show to lead off your week and

today Les is going to encourage you to be patient to understand that it is not going to

happen overnight these things take time and I love the story of the bamboo tree.

And you're gonna hear it right now.

Les Brown's coming up.

Now, how do you hang in there during the hard difficult times lest you must have faith

You've got to believe in yourself

You've got to believe in your abilities you've got to believe in your abilities. You've got to believe in your service, your

company, your ideas, unquestionably. You've got to have faith and that faith gives you

patience. That is not going to happen as quickly as you want it to happen.

A lot of things are going to happen that will catch you off God.

And so therefore you've got to deal with and handle it as it comes.

And not only that, but that faith and patience drives you into action.

You've got to keep moving and keep plugging away.

In the Far East, they have something that's called the Chinese bamboo tree.

The Chinese bamboo tree takes five years to grow.

And when they go through a and fertilize the ground where it is every day and it doesn't break through the ground until the fifth year.

Okay?

But once it breaks through the ground, within five weeks, it grows 90 feet tall.

Now the question is, does it grow 90 feet tall in five weeks or five years?

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