II. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
(an excerpt from the book “6 Minutes to Financial Freedom”)
Many years ago while pondering the question, What is the meaning of life, God gave me an understanding so clear I had to write it down for future generations. If you take nothing else from this book, please get this spiritual interpretation and share it with everyone you care about.
“The Meaning of Life is ostensibly defined by what we leave behind, that is, our transpositional analysis of our legacy allows us to attain a level of quintessential clairvoyance that leads to positive augmentation of our impending rejuvenation long after we are physically expired.”
The above statement is an eloquently written poetic sonnet that means life is defined by what we leave behind.
It is our looking forward analysis of our legacy that helps us decide what we need to do today. In essence, we must figure out how we want to be remembered, and based on that desired image, determine the actions and activities to yield the required outcome. By analyzing our lives this way, we achieve a level of futuristic understanding that leads to a positive addition to our upcoming mental resurrection long after our time on earth is over. Why does this work? Because, the only place we can live forever is in the minds of people we have somehow positively or negatively impacted or influenced. Ultimately, we have to leave something behind that speaks for us or about us. In order for this process to begin, we must first think about what we want our life to say about us. Or, to put it bluntly, How do we want to be remembered?
Let me give you some ideas to get started: write a book, invent something, write a poem, help someone do something to change his life, write a song, help someone discover his own greatness. Start a company or discover a new element. Invent
your own catchy phrase. Be the first person in your family to do something different or unique. There are four options: (1) create something unique, (2) say something unique, (3) do something unique or (4) be someone unique. For example, my motto is, “Whomever does it first sets the standard, all others must follow!” What is your motto?
Ask yourself the following questions: (1) If my life ended right now would someone on this earth think enough of me or have I done some things significant enough that ten years from now my memory will still be alive in someone’s mind? Or, (2) After the last known family member has passed on to eternity, would my memory go with them. Or, (3) Have I done some things in my life significant enough to allow my memory to outlast that ending?
If the answer to either of these questions is no, consider this your wake-up call. Because you are reading this now, there is still time to decide to be a significant member of history and not just a person who lived and died to be forgotten.
Copyright 2002 By Anson Massey, 6Minutes to Financial Freedom, Chapter 2
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