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In previous articles under "Meaning and Marketing", we havelearned about the verb "To Be" and that the name of God isI AM.
Stephen Hawkings, the world's greatest mathematician, and authorof several books on
Everybody knew he had the GIFT and so did he. He just wasn'tusing it. But then he contracted Lou Gehig's Disease and thatgot him moving.
What was the difference? Hawkings now faced a MUST and for him --he knew -- it was now or never. And this MUST has kept himamazingly alive for many years.
Hawkings was facing a Moral Imperative!
Scarlett O'Hara in the book and movie, "Gone with the Wind", isanother example. However, she didn't have a MUST, not really. Shemanufactured one. Her's and Margaret Mitchell's words will ringout forever - - "By God, I'll never be hungry again!"
Or did she say, "I'll never eat radishes again!?"
Her link was "Tara" - the Land. But, of course, her link was morethan that. It was Ashley Wilkes. She could care less about RhettButtler.
Whatever her true links are, they were extremely active in herconscious and sub-conscious will and Scarlett literally stormsthe gates of Heaven with her demands and I AM is impressed.So are we.
Never mind that she is a louse. In the end she will find her trueSELF and, to her amazement, her true
If you don't face a MUST, you can always manufacture one -- ifyou want to, as Scarlett did. Don't be fooled. She could havegotten by on radishes, pinto beans, and settled for much less,as most of her neighbors did after the Civil War. She could havelived a very ordinary and miserable life for herself and futurefamily. But that's not what she wanted, was it? That's not whatshe willed.
A MUST is a Moral Imperative. It's now or never. You've got to getmoving and you know it.
What is it you want? Why were you born? What is your destiny? Youcan only know and find out by allowing your "wheels to hit theroad."
Your Domain is -- YourHighestandYourBest.com
This is the same as -- YouAre.com
(See Article: "Meaning and Marketing: The Links")
Now let's pretend YOU ARE 10 pounds of Pure Uranium and
When the explosive is triggered, the force of the explosion willbe directed inward and not outward and compact you at all pointsa fraction of a second about 5 tons per pixel. The Chain Reaction
is then ignited within the sphere of YOURSELF. After that, it's10,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit in all directions.
Now this is an almost infinitely tiny explosion compared to ourMrs. Patricia Smith ("Eye of the Storm" Article) whose body plusthe Door at the speed of light squared was the size of a protonwith a mass of 239lbs. I AM used her to fashion a
Do you and I really have that kind of power? Yes, we do, if wegain weight.
But what seems impossible physically is always possible in ourWILLS and in our Imaginations - if we want it to be. And that'sall it takes.
Go ahead. Deny yourself your WILL and your Imagination. But to doso is an excuse, and an excuse is always immoral. And so manypeople choose to be immoral: not having any direction, meaning,or purpose, and so they just get by from day to day. That's allthey do. It's a smart, safe, but a sad way to live.
So if you are in the category of someone who wishes to live byyour Will and Imagination -- and I am assuming that you are-- what are you going to use for your explosive material?
Use your Links! I have dozens, even hundreds. Here are some ofmy links and I am showing you this just to show you what a linklooks like:
"The King of the Golden River" by John Ruskin, a short story whichI read in the 2nd. grade;
The death of Ben in Thomas Wolf's book, "Look Homeward Angel".
Task Force FAITH on the East side of the Chosin Reservoir in theEpic Korean War Battle, Nov. 27 to Dec. 8, 1950.
Movies:
"Moll Flanders" - a model of endurance and true character.
"Solaris" - You will know the price of LOVE.
"A Banquet of Voices", The Cambridge Singers"Vivaldi Concerti" and Baroque Trumpet Music, Nimbus Records,Nimbus Records #7012
My own real life stories:The Roller DerbyThe Horseshoe TournamentThe Fat Man at the Swimming PoolThe Mile RunThe Penny - (3 very recently found)
People - My Heroes...I have dozens and so do you. But how about this one forstarters:
MyhighestAndMyBest.com/LanceArmstrong
Special Numbers that have meaning only for me:$17.01 & $21.01 (the ladder added in the last week)
Etc, etc, etc...
There is a story behind all my Links. These are the very bestkind of Links -- the ones with a story behind them, from yourvery own life.
BUT YOU DON'T NEED ANY OF MY LINKS. USE YOUR OWN!
Look for your own, find your own - anything that has specialmeaning for you and that empowers you. Open your eyes.They are everywhere!
Surround yourself with YOUR links to your past and present anduse them as explosives to blast yourself to a much better futurefor you and your loved ones. Click on any one of YOUR OWN linksand your will and you should arrive at the same place: YOU andyour Destiny.
YouAre.comYourHighestAndYourBest.com
Click on these links and you should arrive or ought to arrive atyour Ultimate Link:
TheKingdomofIAM.com
You don't believe in GOD? Then just pretend that God is the verb"To Be" and think of God as the way you use the verb "To Be" andall words in your
If God -- I AM -- is anything, S/he is
NOW YOU LACK ONLY ONE THING: A Trigger!!!
The Trigger is your Moral Imperative.
What is a Trigger? A Trigger can be one of two things:(1) Someone or Something that royally angers you.(2) Someone or something that has exhilarated you and broughtto you a very special JOY.
When Jesus of Nazareth grew up in Galilee, he looked around himand saw plenty to anger him. And it is the same with you and me.When we look around us, what do we see and what do we care about?And do we not feel a similar anger sometimes?
But we can use our anger as a trigger, as many great people havealready done. There are dozens of causes that elicit our anger.Choose one and go with it and use YOUR anger as the Trigger.
But in truth, the ladder (No. 2 -- Joy) may be the best kind oftrigger because it has more force and power and you mightas well "go for the Gold" in your trigger. This is what manyartists have done. Goethe is just one example.
Unfortunately, LOVE as a trigger has to do with "Unrequited Love",as in the case of Scarlett O'Hara, but it is one of the mostpowerful and energizing forces in the world if you want to makeuse of it. If you don't make use of it, it can destroy you.
Whom or what have you lost that you cannot recover? Instead of
The only way you can recover what you have lost is by reformingyourself, by re-imagining yourself. When you find your true self,you will have recovered, not only what you have lost, but alsomuch more. You will be and shall become a New Creation.
Your point right now is not to succeed, but to begin. To begin,you must have a Trigger -- a Moral Imperative -- and the bestTrigger is unrequited love.
But if you don't have that, unrequited love, then the other kindwill do.
Don't be fooled by Scarlett O'Hara. When she was reaching forthe gold, she was mostly reaching for Ashley Wilks. She had a
double trigger! She had two triggers. She had both kinds.
Now that you have your TRIGGER -- YouAre.com/Ashley -- it's timeto take cover with your compatriots in your foxholes, to joinhands, and to pray.
Who is there to pull the Trigger? YOU ARE. Use your WILL.
(See Article 3: "Meaning and Marketing: The Will")
It's now Six Trillion, Trillion Degrees and the force of theblast is moving at speeds that trouble the imagination...
(See Article 2: "Meaning and Marketing: The Eye of theStorm")
Have a good life. Find yourself. In finding your TRUE SELF, youwill find your TRUE LOVE and the world in you and around you willnever be the same again.
Who knows? Your Unrequited Love may even come to visit you, butonly after you have made some money, a whole lot of money. Andthen, if you want to -- but I hope you will not want to -- youcan tell him/her where to go.
You are a Network Marketer. You do want to make alot of money,don't you? Isn't that what you want? Isn't that what you WILL?
If not, then why are you in Marketing?
Since your are in Marketing, you might as well go for the Gold.If it was good enough for Scarlett O'Hara, it's good enough forme.
And besides all that, I have some "loves" to recover. Don't you?
Go ahead! Pull the Trigger! Begin!
The best way to read this article is in sequence with the other articles in this series under "Meaning and Marketing": (1) The Hurricane; (2) The Eye of the Storm; (3) The Will; (4) The Links; (5) The Trigger
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe,Intro by Michael Hulse, Penquin Literature;
E=MC(uppercase2), a book about Einstein's most famous mathematical formula
Paul Snell lives with his wife, Jean, and younger son, Steven, and their dog Blackie in Lexington, NC. He is a former minister in the Presbyterian Church USA and has been in Network Marketing full time since 2002. Paul, at the age of 61, has recently been diagnosed as Bi-Polar with A.D.D. as a minor component. He, with the encouragement of his great mentors at the Power Shift Loop, is an advocate for the treatment of mental illnesses -- all kinds, including substance abuse.
He may be contacted at psnell100@excite.com