How Would You Like to Be Remembered

How Would You Like to Be Remembered

About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his surprise and horror, read his name in the obituary column. The news papers had reported the death of the wrong person by mistake. His first response was shock. Am I here or there? When he regained his composure, his second thought was to find out what people had said about him. The obituary read, "Dynamite King Dies." And also "He was the merchant of death." This man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read the words "merchant of death," he asked himself a question, "Is this how I am going to be remembered?" He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on, he started working toward peace. His name was Alfred Nobel and he is remembered today by the great Nobel Prize.

This Weeks Message:

Just as Alfred Nobel got in touch with his feelings and redefined his values, we should step back and do the same. What is your legacy and how would you like to be remembered? An interesting exercise which I highly recommend doing is writing your own eulogy, it does seem strange and hard for some, but is such a powerful tool to identify how you would like to be remembered and to recognise if you are actually on the right path to being respected as you wish. We all want to leave foot prints of greatness yet so many of us are too busy with our everyday activities that we forget how important it is to keep building a strong character of goodness and love, so that we can be known and remembered for it. If you want to be spoken well of, then start living it today.

May you have an exceptionally awesome week, where life is enhanced by all the good things of who you are and what you want to be.
Darren Zwiers
 

This Weeks Quote:

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. - Thomas Kempis