Leave Your Mark
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who’s your favorite person past or present? We can learn a great deal from these men and women. Alive or dead. Old or young. While some of you like to learn from experience, its best to learn from the experience of others. They’ve been there. They’ve done that. They did it and so we have a way that does and doesn’t work. They left their mark in the world. They have left a footprint in the sand. Just like White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Where fossilized foot prints were found of a parent, most likely a mother alongside a child’s footprints. Some 23,000 year old foot prints, preserved.
So the meditation for today is how you can leave your mark. With your community, with your family, with your partner and the people you work with. We all have an opportunity to leave an imprint. Small or large, it doesn’t matter. The fact is we can, we must and we should. Each day presents a new moment to have this imprint take shape. It can be an act of kindness. Or you simply doing the work in front of you to create something. Make something work. Playing with your kids. Anything can be the print you want to leave. The mark. But you need a reason to. And you need a way to. Going through life with no aim is not a way to live this one life you have. More importantly, its not the way to use the one life you have.
Leave your mark.
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Thought Provoking Questions : In what small and large way can you leave a mark?
Daily I write and release a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in my life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
These writings are not to push a way of thinking on the reader or to force you into a certain philosophy or methodology. Rather to give you practical and real ways to handle life. This is an added tool. My writing is simply a discussion, a discourse, with all the material I read, watch, hear and consume.