Laws and principles guide life and the principle of life transcends personal rules that reflect a belief system. Principled people faithfully follow their directions rather than abandoning them at their convenience.
When faced with difficult situations, they will refer to their rules and merely deduce the right actions from them.
These personal standards serve as an internal compass, helping individuals maintain their moral integrity when the external world becomes chaotic.
But the principle of life surpasses our rule, for life itself is a being with its own rules, and the power of life exceeds our belief system. Playing by the law of life while holding our practices sacred and adjusting them to always align with that law makes living easier.
We often make the mistake of assuming that the universe must bend to our personal desires or cultural expectations. In reality, we achieve true peace only when we humble our personal practices and realign them with the absolute, unyielding spiritual mechanics of creation.
My theory of the principle of life has five elements; before we delve into the elements, let me give you an illustration:
A woman had three daughters. She gave each a cutlass, showed them three trees to cut in three hours, and left them to manual labour.
Upon her exit, the first one looked at her matchet and said their mother must be joking about wanting her to cut the tree with such a small matchet; she left. She allowed immediate visual intimidation and a lack of faith to paralyse her before she even attempted the work completely.
The second one launches into cutting her own, but gets tired after an hour; she laments their mother shouldn’t have expected her to hit such a tree with a blunt machete; she drops it and left. She possessed the initial enthusiasm to begin, but lacked the foresight to prepare her tool for the long-term demands of the task.
However, the third one, seeing she has only three hours to cut the tree, first uses one hour to sharpen her machete and use one hour to cut the tree; resting on the third hour when their mother returns with their reward and was disappointed at the other two who had abandoned their labour.
This daughter recognised that strategic preparation is never a waste of time; it is the exact catalyst that multiplies our efficiency and ensures our ultimate success.
The trees are our purpose of existence and mission to accomplish. Each of us is on this earth with a specific, unique assignment carved into the fabric of our destiny. These assignments require deliberate effort, focus, and a refusal to walk away when the labour becomes heavy.
The cutlass is the potential that we use to accomplish the mission. Some people abandon their potential because they didn’t sharpen it enough to fulfil the purpose of their existence and live like a nobody when they are somebody.
They look at their current unrefined talents and mistakenly believe they are inadequate, completely forgetting that every great gift must be intentionally sharpen through discipline, education, and consistent practice.
And the time interval is the period of our existence on earth; nobody lives forever, and our soul must return someday to give accounts of what we did with our potential, determining the fate of our next life.
A strict chronological horizon binds our earthly existence. This realisation should not bring us fear, but rather instil a profound sense of urgency to utilise our days wisely before our time expires.
Many have a problem with beginning small in life; we all want to make it big, even without starting. Some people launch into action with a blunt or no potential, after which they blame the sources of their belief system for not yielding results.
They demand an extra-large harvest without ever investing the necessary hours into nurturing the seeds of their capabilities, resulting in inevitable frustration and failure.
My five elements of the principle of life are;
- Discover your potential
- Nurture your potential
- Launch your potential
- Live your dream
- Give it back to society
In my next thought, I would be reflecting on discovering and nurturing one’s potential.
How do you approach the daily sharpening of your personal potential? Have you ever felt tempted to abandon your mission because the tools at your disposal felt too small or unpolished for the task? Share your thoughts, please.
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