How can that title correlate with peace and positivity? Well, we can harness power for the greater good from negativity. Emphasis on the greater good.
Friday, America will recognize Pearl Harbor Day. On December 7, 1941, an emotionally negative event occurred that summoned a powerful, driving force for the greater good. According to Google:
In total, 2,335 Americans died and 1,143 were wounded.
Nothing
remarkable in the annals of bloody combat, or even the bloody headlines of
today, true? But the highly-charged
political discourse that followed, epitomized by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s “Infamy Speech” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamy_Speech ), united our country against common enemies. Emphasis on uniting our country.
Negative emotions can be a powerful driving force. But a force for good?
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
Thinking differently may offer us hope, but different does not have to be violent or dividing. Our thinking should create more friends and allies than it does enemies.
In the business world we often see evidence of power when a company unites against common enemies. Steve Jobs famously crusaded to be taken seriously – until Apple rose to dominance. The common enemy was marketplace disrespect. That adversity rocketed Apple to astronomical heights.
"ADVERSITY”:
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,
which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
The American Red Cross was inspired from the carnage of our Civil War This powerful organization is also untied against common enemies – the devastated; the wounded; the needy; the destitute.
We have many common enemies that can help us harness power for good. Emphasis on the good:
In every community, there is
work to be done.
In every nation, there are
wounds to heal.
In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
Here’s to Pearly Harbor Day and the power it generated to propel our country forward in the face of common enemies. How will we propel America and our fellow Americans forward this December in the face of today’s common enemies?
Yes Marianne, in every community there is work to be done for the greater good. In our hearts and minds we all have the power to do it!
GAP
When life gets tough we could get a helmet… or… we could leverage the peace and share the power of a positive perspective.