Just One Sentence!

Clare Boothe Luce made headlines as one of the first women to serve in the U.S. Congress circa 1962. But perhaps her greatest legacy (in my opinion) is to be found in an advice she offered   to President John F. Kennedy when Luce feared that Kennedy’s attention was so splintered among different priorities.

“A great man,” she told him, “is one sentence.” Abraham Lincoln’s sentence was: “He preserved the union and freed the slaves.” Franklin Roosevelt’s was: “He lifted us out of a great depression and helped us win a world war.”
Well I don’t know if she gets all the credit, but it seemed Luce helped Kennedy’s sentence from becoming a muddled paragraph. Today it’s easy to describe Kennedy in just one sentence.

I know what you might be thinking, but you don’t have to be president of anything to use this advice. To get the most on your existence, you need to think about your sentence. There are countless sentences you will say in your lifetime; this may be one of the most important. It will gear your life toward greater purpose.

So as to go through the rest of your days and the many possibilities to get life all muddled up, I counsel you start asking yourself what your sentence is, or what you want it to be. It may not come all at once, and it doesn’t have to be all articulate and cool, but don’t stop asking. When you think you got it, put it out there for all to see. You might want to share it as comment to this post……. See you there [winks]