it was frontier land, and everywhere he went he planted apple seeds. The trees from those seeds fed many thousands of people in later generations. That's real long-range planning!
Many of us are interested mainly in the present.
We don't think ahead like Johnny Appleseed.
Maybe you don't want to go around planting apple seeds like he did. But there's another kind of seed you should be planting everyday '- the seed of good feelings about yourself.