Video Introduction to The Meanings of Life
Dear Visitor,
Below is a button that will take you to YouTube™ where I have posted the video I produced to introduce the 5 concepts discussed in the book I wrote titled The Meaning(s) of your life - A Father's Guide to His Daughter's Happiness. My original intent for writing this book was the notion that I wanted to give my daughter something emense for her 18th birthday. I wanted to give her the, quite literally, the biggest gift there is to give. I wrestled with my personal limitations with respect to finances, belongings, and all the things or ideas i have seen others come up with over time. Nothing I had or could think of seemed unique enough. Nothing rattling around in my head, after months of consideration seemed to grab me like, "Hey this is it!" There is a saying that found me many years ago that I instantly adhered to and ever since has never led me wrong. K.I.S.S.. An acronym for "Keep It Simple Stupid". If you are like me, and we all are more alike than we are different, I have a tendency to over complicate things. Sometimes my heart does the thinking and every once in a while my head calls the shots. Although I find it proper to depend on a mix of the two in any given situation, I have learned through experience, the heart has a strong tendency to either; way over think, way under think, or to completely circumvent thinking altogether for fear that the thinking will prevent the path it already knows it should not take so best not to go there in the first place. To be completely transparent most times I listen to my heart I am under direct orders from my heart to not involve my brain because any logically reasoned measures in weighing outcomes would likely stimey what it is my heart desires. So clearly I digress. You get the point.
So with no aha moment on the gift I reminded myself, "Self. Remember to K.I.S.S. on this gift idea or you will be last minute shopping for or end up grasping last minute for a gift that is so far off from your original intent it will make you ill when thinking, "THAT! That is what I ended up giving my daughter when I wanted to give her the immeasurable equivalent of THE WORLD. I wanted to give my daughter the world. With no plausible way of doing that which should not and cannot really be done, it hit me like a ton of feathers. (Side note which ways more? A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?) I want to give her all the things I screwed up as a dad and that I wanted to instill in her that I had not yet gotten around to in the 18 years that just vanished before my eyes! I wanted to make up for lost time. If I could just keep it really simple what is the one thing I would gift my daughter if it were the only thing I ever gave her. What would a wish be that if I only had the one would I wish upon my daughter. What did I want for her more than any other thing in this world? K.I.S.S.. I want her to be happy. Have a happy and well adjusted life and to look back on her life when the time comes and ???? You guessed it...to be happy with it. If I could give her anything in the world I would absolutely give her happiness.
More importantly no pain, no uneasiness, no anguish, no irrecoverable damage, no regrets, no self doubt, and a life that did not dwell negativity. To be free of all those things it seems would make one happy. I want her to be happy more than anything in the world. If I could somehow ensure or lead her to this happiness I would consider my job done as a father. That's it! A survival guide or a reference pamphlet written under the lense offered when keeping it simple. Stupid.
So with the understanding that 98% of those that visit my site will never make it to this point in actually reading what I have here to present to you. Further, it is necessary to eventually offer the reader the "making of a point" eventually otherwise it would just be rambling therefore wasted time and the exact reason 98% chose not to make it this far. Aha, but for those of you that have arrived here and have read this far you should be prepared to be amazed!
If you made it this far there is a reason. I cannot be certain about your exact reason. Addressing each and every one of you individually within these words would be impossible for me. However, I have a relationship with someone who always knows what to say, how to say it, whether to say it or show it. This is where I will leave it then so as to make a point. I can guarantee the point will be just in time, just enough, and with a supernaturally strong feeling of wellness once discovered. I know my book will hit its target with respect to my daughter and her happiness if life. I not only know it I trust it. I wish the same for you. Thanks for reading. I truly appreciate it and you will also. I wrote this book for my daughter's future and quickly realized that anyone with a future needs to know what this book is about and all those who appear to have no foreseeable future...well they need it even most. So in the constant consistent effort to K.I.S.S. everything...That is everybody. Especially if your going to share a world with my daughter.
Specifically Yours!
In earnest,
"God Thank You for being in our hearts. Thank you also for guiding our thoughts. In doing so please continue to help remind each of us that you are within us. Remind us you are in all things you created just as a part of us is in each of our children.
Thank you for the Grace you afford us that we do not deserve and thank you for your Mercy in not giving us what we do deserve. It is your kindness that allows our happiness. It is our troubles that bring us closer to each other and to you Father God.
Help to lead us all home. Amen."
You may watch the video hosted here on this page down below (you will have to allow/enable the audio) or follow the link to watch it on YouTube™ it is up to you either way same content.
Jeremy Och
Father/Son/Brother/friend/Author