Sequence: The True Essence of Life…
Sequence is not a word we often give thought to, if at all. It’s not a word percolating in our minds like courage, love, strength or beauty might. Sequence is humdrum, unexciting and boring; after all what’s thrilling about a word inferring a succession of events or happenings? Nothing really, except that sequence, in a nutshell, is what the true essence of life is all about.
We’ve all heard the refrain that there’s a time and place for everything, and that when something is right for us, it has a way of showing up. There may be some truth in this; however waiting for events to happen upon us is selling the concept of sequence short. Nothing in life is assured and nothing guarantees that things will unfold as we may anticipate them to, that is, if they unfold at all.
But, and it’s a big but, sequence is what happens when this year, this month, this day, this hour and this minute, we take action to do something. And it’s this action that puts the power of sequence to work for us. If our life is but a finite chain of happenings (although when we’re young we don’t view anything as finite), then life is determined by the action we take at any particular point in time (or don’t take for that matter). It’s our actions (or inactions) that largely constitute how our life will play out before our eyes.
What does this impending truth then mean for us? It means that life is the sum result of the small actions we take day-in and day-out. Life isn’t about some big grandiose swoop of the wand, with all our dreams and goals suddenly materializing out of thin air. On the contrary, life is sequence, and sequence demands, without exception, that we diligently work with great self-discipline (see Self-Discipline: The Cornerstone of Meaningful Action…) towards those dreams and goals we aspire to.
Want to be a world-class marathon runner? We must train and train, and then train some more. We build upon the chain of events that is put into action with each day we train. The power of sequence kicks in as we run further and longer with each passing day. And so it is with our daily lives. Do we fritter time away watching mind-numbing television, or do we seize each God-given precious breath to work towards those things that our hearts so desire?
American author Mark Twain (1835-1910) said that “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
If so, then what are we waiting for? A New Year has dawned, and with it new months, new weeks, new days, new hours and new minutes. It’s incumbent upon us to take action and seize the moment; it’s incumbent upon us to take action and let the sequence begin…
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