Let’s journey back into the days when we were students and sitting in our English classes.
Oh the fun we had in learning how to write a sentence. As I recall we had to deal with subjects predicates, adverbs, adjectives, objects, conjunctions, verbs, nouns, commas, colons, simple sentences versus complex or compound, as well as run on sentences like this one! How can I forget spelling and proper grammar as part of a sentence?
Once we think we have mastered this then we have to go ahead and diagram the sentence and make whatever necessary changes there are to make it perfect and understandable.
With advanced apologies to all the English teachers who are reading this article, I must admit did I lacked the attention span to fully grasp the concepts and practice of sentence structure. I would take the leap of faith to suggest that I am not the only person to have been done so in spite of everyone’s best passionate efforts.
And that’s a shame.
What this really taught us or could have taught us is a lifelong lesson that can be applied to everything that we do. In short, that is planning.
It took a lot of effort to make sure that everything was in order when writing a sentence and then concluding it with a period and various pauses throughout.
In our lives as we plan for our future, can we do the same thing? Or do we do it haphazardly hoping things would fall on our way and that we would have luck on our side. If something went wrong, was it due to circumstances we can’t control, what was it due to circumstances we didn’t control by properly putting all the pieces in its rightful order.
It really is too late for me and most of us to take a remedial course in sentence structure, yet it is the proper time to explore many of our successes and some of our disappointments and learn from the planning process either resulted in achievement, do overs or simple abandonment.
Always focus on the desired outcome, collect the components that are required for each step-by-step advancement, place them in a logical sequence and then quite frankly diagram it out as many of us are familiar with a gant time chart.
Create for yourself a life sentence that will ultimately turn into a paragraph and then your book of success that will continuously run on with your great stories!
