How Constant Vigilance Leads to Success and Prevents Failure in Life
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
From The Parable of the Ten Virgins, Matthew 25:1–13
Life is like a garden that you must constantly tend to in order for it to yield good results. Taken care of the garden can produce amazing fruits and vegetables.
Yet, a garden is always under constant threat from weeds, bugs, animals, bad weather and other unforeseen dangers. If one stays aware of these dangers most of them can be traversed.
Your life is the same way. If you stay on top of things there is no limit to what you can accomplish. If you do not stay on top of things you will absolutely face a mountain of issues that will slow you down or even defeat you.
Staying on top of things means being vigilant. The Oxford Living Dictionary defines vigilance as the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties. The word possibly derives from the Latin “vigilare,” which means “keep awake.”
Success in life requires constant vigilance. In other words, you make practicing vigilance the norm and not something you practice occasionally or when you think of it.
