Everyone Has a Message

Good Morning...

I hope...from the deepest part of my being...that you had a successful week...of chasing your dreams and making them real!

We often chase many things that we believe that we have a right to chase...

Do not make the mistake of Don Quixote...and take time for reality checks periodically...look to others outside yourself to help you ascertain what is real...because our perceptions are automatically skewed by our internal drives...

This takes us to an interesting place in our thoughts...

What do we have a right to chase?

As I think about it...a person only has a right to those things...which he can defend...

Although I would like to chase down that rabbit hole...I will avoid the temptation...but let it suffice that I can reduce this right to a point to where "all we have is life...all else is a benefit and a gift!"  Even those guaranteed by the Constitution..."Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness..."

Think deeply about it...A person only has a right to that which they can defend...

What can you truly defend?

AND...

What do you really have a right (obligation) to chase?

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Another thought for you...

Every person is unique in make-up (genetics) and experience...

It is that combination of nature and nurture...sets the stage for some interesting conclusions...

Every person may have a specific role to play in the drama!

Even on the most basic (natural) platform...our role is to contribute to the future success of our species...

Passing on our genes...a most basic drive...and on a higher level...passing on our experience and learnings!  Sometimes...I think that the two and intertwined...this is an entirely different subject that we'll hit some other day!

We have come to a point that we do understand that our role is to create an endowment for our future generations...some genetic message and perhaps some intellectual message also...which were the result of our unique combination of experiences...

Our genetic code and our intellectual code!

That means that you actually have TWO messages to pass on to your (ours) future generations...

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Our next thoughts serve only to enforce our role in this drama...

To paraphrase a quote that I recently read...and paraphrased across the social network world...

"Those things that we have done for ourselves...die with us...those things that we do for others...live beyond us..."

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Let's contemplate our naturally driven uniqueness

Question:  Just how unique are you?

You have probably watched DNA experts testify on the probability of a genetic match and heard the statement that the Genetic uniqueness is 1 in 16 billion...today I heard a DNA expert testify 1 in 50 billion!  Whatever the numbers...it means that every individual is more unique than the total number of human beings that has ever lived or probably ever will live!

This understanding of DNA shows how unique you genetically are!  You are alone in your uniqueness among all human beings that have ever lived or ever will live!  My mind is boggled by this and this alone!

I have to say it again!

Your genetics actually makes you unique from everything that has ever existed...since life began...every virus...YES EVERYTHING...and those that will live...you are absolutely unique...

OK...I have rode this horse to death...but what a cool thing to ponder!

The message is...You are VERY unique!

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Now let's go even further into how unique you are...

There is something making us even more unique...what?

It is our intellectual experience...

Our experiences from the time of conception is only ours and paralleled by no other person...or living thing for that matter!  AGAIN...any organism that has ever lived...is living or will live...

If we are naturally unique and complex...and are inherently driven to pass our genetic uniqueness into the future...why shouldn't we also have a drive to pass our intellectual uniqueness (messages) into the future? 

A message containing your learnings from your experiences are just as unique and complex...

Isn't that a cool thoght to ponder?

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Now let's start thinking about that message...

For those who have been following me...you know that I have been promoting a simplistic understanding of your journey...

Your Signature...what are the habits that you are known for?

Your Legend...what mark have you made?

Your Mission...what is the concise description of your journey and goal?

Your Meaning...What is your one sentence description?

The fact of the matter is...I still believe that these are components leading to success...each with a specific purpose...they should be short...concise and accurately understood by anyone with whom they are shared...

This message is different...

The message that I am describing is different...

It potentially contains a plethora of your life's experiences and the learnings associated with them...good and bad...

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Our message is complex...it is as complex as our DNA!

The cool thing about this series of thoughts and the things that we are obligated to pass into the future...is that the DNA part is already forwarded to the future...if you have fulfilled that part of your special purpose!

I think everyone has at one time or another everyone has seen a drawing of a DNA "spiral chain."  Our intellectual chain is similar, but instead of 46 rungs of complex genes...your experience message has 4 rungs but the details contained therein are just as complex as an individual genetic rung!

Even though an effort as large as the human genome project would be needed to fully understand the details of your intellectual message, it can be briefly described...in a way that we all can understand it!

An intellectual message ladder has only 4 rungs...they are...

1 - Praise for our unique opportunity and role in the drama...

2 - Remorse for having fallen short on a continual basis

3 - Appreciation for what you have learned and can share

4 - Your lessons learned and the message that the future needs to heed!

If you haven't caught it...the first 4 letters spell out the word PRAY!

You do not have to be a fanatic...or a spiritual person to pray...

To PRAY...simply means to connect one's heart and mind...to the point that it elicits a change in your actions and behaviors...(your actions)...

It may be time that you consider looking deeply into yourself and clearly determining the message your unique message...

Enough said about this for now!

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A fundamental component of our society has eroded...through well meaning but narrow thinking individuals.  In an effort to be non-discriminatory, unbiased and unoffensive, they have convinced us that to PRAY is forcing the beliefs and behaviors of a minority on others who do not wish to participate in "rituals" that may run contrary to their own belief system.  It is interesting that they have fallen prey to that which they are attacking...they are guilty of doing that which they abhor...

I contend that to PRAY is not an opinion or ritual of a specific segment of our society...but an obligation of humanity on the whole!  This is especially true when you use my definition...which is to connect your emotions and intellect and affect your behaviors...POSITIVELY!

I take this position by moving from a narrow definition that defines praying as a ritualistic behavior...to an exercise of connecting and directing one's genetics, emotions and intellect towards one purpose and action...

It is "action" that sends an enduring message to future generations and makes them better for your having been here!our

To pray is not to focus on a mental or spiritual exercise...but to affect your behavior and your actions...
So my advice is...

Pray not for yourself...but for others sake!

Why?

Let's think about that thought I posted...and use its message to create an auxillary statement...

If you pray for yourself...it dies with you...if you pray for others...it lives into the future...

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Time for some amusement...
I am not a proponent of time travel!  I do not believe that the past or the future has the substance that is contained in the present...

In fact by intellectual definition...if one was able to travel back or forward...it is still their present...so I believe that time is an illusion...huh?

Time is a rationalized continuum...but that linearity is only a rationalization...there is no substance in the past or the future...the only substance is the present...and from my perspective...there is only the present!

Enough of that intellectualizing!

To PRAY in my prescribed manner...is to send a message into the future...it is an investment and our attempt to make the world a better place...

It may also call us to account for everything that we are and do!  In the present!

OK...Let's cut to the chase...
What is your message?

How well have you crafted it?

This week's advice is not to forget to PRAY...

You owe it to our future generations...and like the old saying...

"Be careful what you PRAY for...it may send the wrong message!"

You have a right to chase only that which you can defend...alone or together...

Hasppy Birthday America...you have made the list of things that we can defend longer than it would be if we tried to do it alone...

Enough Said!