I've been doing this blogging thing for a year now - it's hard to believe really.152 posts later, I have "spoken" to folks from over 22 different countries and have had more than five thousand visits to this site - more importantly there are several hundred who read these electronic key strokes on a regular basis.
Who knew? ....
When I first started writing I wanted to share. My thoughts, my moods even some well intended fitness advice. But what I received through your emails, your comments and thoughts over this past year was a far greater gift than I could have anticipated or imagined. You're friendship.
I hope to continue this trek through the written word and invite you to join in. Perhaps I/we will get to know a little bit more of you, and hopefully we will continue to build our friendship... until then I hope you enjoy.
Imagine if you will; the garden honey bee, hopping from flower to flower collecting pollen that he intends to take back to his hive family in order to feed the queen bee and keep his friends and family in sustenance.
A simple maneuver. A basic task. A solid, honorable, selfless purpose. ‘Go out young bee and – as Cuba Gooding Jr screamed down the telephone at Jerry McGuire (in the film of the same name) - show me the honey!’ (it was on TV last week - sorry)
They honey bee knows its purpose. It knows what it is doing.
Or does it?
What the honey bee does not know, what the honey bee could not know is that in the process of travelling from plant to plant, from flower to flower he inadvertently collects pollen on his tail and accidentally pollinates all the flowers and plants in an act so vital to the ecosystem that mankind would perish without it.
I hope to continue this trek through the written word and invite you to join in. Perhaps I/we will get to know a little bit more of you, and hopefully we will continue to build our friendship... until then I hope you enjoy.
Imagine if you will; the garden honey bee, hopping from flower to flower collecting pollen that he intends to take back to his hive family in order to feed the queen bee and keep his friends and family in sustenance.
A simple maneuver. A basic task. A solid, honorable, selfless purpose. ‘Go out young bee and – as Cuba Gooding Jr screamed down the telephone at Jerry McGuire (in the film of the same name) - show me the honey!’ (it was on TV last week - sorry)
They honey bee knows its purpose. It knows what it is doing.
Or does it?
What the honey bee does not know, what the honey bee could not know is that in the process of travelling from plant to plant, from flower to flower he inadvertently collects pollen on his tail and accidentally pollinates all the flowers and plants in an act so vital to the ecosystem that mankind would perish without it.
The bee’s purpose is simple and it is based on its hive instinct.
Now, I want you to imagine another cross pollinating effect that is equally mammoth and equally accidental and it all started with a race. One that was precipitated by fear.
The race in question was ‘the space race’ and it occurred between the Russian and American governments. The finish line? Man walking on the surface of the moon!
The premise of this race (or the belief) was that whoever landed a man on the moon first got to control space, and who ever gained control of space automatically held dominion over the earth. As I said it was a race precipitated by fear and ignorance.
Now, I want you to imagine another cross pollinating effect that is equally mammoth and equally accidental and it all started with a race. One that was precipitated by fear.
The race in question was ‘the space race’ and it occurred between the Russian and American governments. The finish line? Man walking on the surface of the moon!
The premise of this race (or the belief) was that whoever landed a man on the moon first got to control space, and who ever gained control of space automatically held dominion over the earth. As I said it was a race precipitated by fear and ignorance.
At the time, who really cared who got into space first? I didn't, I was 8 at the time, and really, I just wanted to go to Bozo's Circus and play the grand prize game? At the time the notion of walking on the moon did not excite nor inspire me... But today I reap its benefits....
History can be a great teacher - As far as President Kennedy was concerned he just wanted to place an American astronaut on the moon within a decade. He felt that this would bring back power-pollen to the American hive and insure its survival in a war that was freezer-box-cold. What Kennedy did not realize, what Kennedy could not have realized was that America was at a time in it's history that we did not have the technology to place a man on the moon.
It was discovered at the time that in order to meet Kennedy’s weighty directive and place moon dust on the soles of Neil Armstrong within ten years they would have to leave the cutting edge of sharply current technology and venture out onto the bleeding edge of the unknown and undiscovered, where imagination meets creation and where creation launches mankind into a new era.
To satisfy an outrageous demand, one has to go to outrageous lengths. In other words, in order for man and moon to marry they had to invent and create new technology (now known as space technology). In fact, it is said that in order for President Kennedy to bring his ‘one small step’ into mankind’s reality 1,000,000 (that is one million) new pieces of technology had to be invented by the current crop of scientists.
To satisfy an outrageous demand, one has to go to outrageous lengths. In other words, in order for man and moon to marry they had to invent and create new technology (now known as space technology). In fact, it is said that in order for President Kennedy to bring his ‘one small step’ into mankind’s reality 1,000,000 (that is one million) new pieces of technology had to be invented by the current crop of scientists.
1,000,000!!!!
Kennedy could not have known that his space dream would change the course of mankind forever. The by-product of the technology that built a ship capable of space travel was and is the mobile phone you are carrying in your pocket right now, or the computer at your desk, the engine in your car, in fact pretty much every new and exciting piece of life-enhancing technology that you and I absolutely take for granted on a daily basis can be traced back to that race for space.
Aiming for the moon changed the earth almost beyond recognition, inventor Buckminster Fuller called this the "processional effect". This cross pollination (although accidental) was so very far reaching.
The race for space, or in today's world - energy independence, inspires me to aim equally high in my own life. If for instance I aim to be a millionaire, or billionaire, or Nobel prize winner or recipient of any other such global goal, how many things will I have to learn, how many skills will I have to master, what bleeding edge human extensions will I need to imagine and create in order to make my goal a living reality? And in creating these new tools, how many individuals peripheral to my singular intention, will benefit from my example as I have benefited from the examples set before me, either with the inspiration it fed me or the proven path it created? Equally important; who will be inspired to aim high and create by your aspirational conquests?
Kennedy could not have known that his space dream would change the course of mankind forever. The by-product of the technology that built a ship capable of space travel was and is the mobile phone you are carrying in your pocket right now, or the computer at your desk, the engine in your car, in fact pretty much every new and exciting piece of life-enhancing technology that you and I absolutely take for granted on a daily basis can be traced back to that race for space.
Aiming for the moon changed the earth almost beyond recognition, inventor Buckminster Fuller called this the "processional effect". This cross pollination (although accidental) was so very far reaching.
The race for space, or in today's world - energy independence, inspires me to aim equally high in my own life. If for instance I aim to be a millionaire, or billionaire, or Nobel prize winner or recipient of any other such global goal, how many things will I have to learn, how many skills will I have to master, what bleeding edge human extensions will I need to imagine and create in order to make my goal a living reality? And in creating these new tools, how many individuals peripheral to my singular intention, will benefit from my example as I have benefited from the examples set before me, either with the inspiration it fed me or the proven path it created? Equally important; who will be inspired to aim high and create by your aspirational conquests?
Often we are motivated to achieve by desirous longing or by buck-naked terror. For most of us we think that our creations and efforts are personal and autonomous. But what I have learned especially though this blog and the type of work that I do is that (we must keep an awareness), everything we do has an effect on everything and everyone else - even though our singular purpose is just to bring home the honey. The "processional effect" is so vast, so grand and so earth shatteringly vital that all of mankind has the potential to be elevated by it.
Let that be your motivator - by achieving your goals you pollinate our collective hive.
If it is your motivation, then I think it only right that whatever you think, however you speak and whatever actions you take - should be BIG.
If you indeed do fully commit, you will ensure that the by-product of your worthy labor and joyful creation will encourage labor worthy enough to inspire joy in all creation.
Til next time....
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