THE SECOND LAW OF THERMAL DYNAMICS

by Ron White

It is called The Second Law of Thermal Dynamics and that law refers to something called entropy. Entropy's definition is - 'The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.' Or put simply - everything goes from order to disorder.

When you hear scientists and theologians debating how the world began. You will hear theologians state that it would be impossible for a bunch of molecules to get together out of randomness or disorder and create a universe of order. The idea is that this would violate the second law of thermal dynamics. Scientists on both sides of the issue have their ideas and input in regards to this. However, I will leave this argument up for those who are more educated on this to discuss such things.

On the other hand, we can extract success lessons from The Second Law of Thermal Dynamic. Once again, the summary version of this law is that everything goes from order to disorder. If we can drive the scientists crazy for a moment and apply this to your life we can perhaps learn something. I will suggest that in regards to success - success is NEVER the result of disorder creating order. Or put another way, success is never the result of disorder creating success.

You see, in nature random disorder cannot produce order. Success in nature cannot be derived from disorder. Your life� your success� your dreams� your goals� your passions� your happiness� your wishes� your aspirations� will never be attained if your life is one of disorder. To do so, would violate The Second Law of Thermal Dynamics.

If you desire to attain your goals, dreams and passions - the first step must be to make your life a life of order. Successful people have routines - these routines create habits. Habits and routines are the beginning stages of order. Next, and this one makes me cringe - but success if it comes from order that means you must be organized. If organizational skills are not a skill that comes naturally to you as they don't for me; do not rest until you can find someone to assist you with organizing your success. If you don't, you will be doomed to a life of unrealized dreams because disorder cannot evolve into order.

There is also a warning in The Second Law of Thermal Dynamics. That warning is loud and clear to every ear willing to listen. The warning says this: everything goes from order to disorder. This means that your success will not be the product of disorder, however, it is very likely that if you fall out of your routines that created your success, if you stray from your habits of order and organization then you success will eventually fall prey to disorder.

In conclusion, let the scientific law of thermal dynamics spur you on to creating order in your life so that you may experience success and remember the warning that order can dissolve into disorder if left unchecked.