Thomas Bouknight:
CLASS OF 1974
East High SchoolClass of 1974
Denver, CO
Thomas's Story
Thomas is from Denver, Colorado. Thomas's schools include East High School. Thomas later attended Texas Southern University (Education Adminstration and Supervision) , University of Colorado Boulder (Political Science) , Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado (Political Science /Elementary Education (Majors), Political Science and Elementary Education, History, English-minors) , Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Thomas works(ed) at Bouknight& Associates, The Potter's House Of Denver, Bouknight& Associates.
Music Thomas likes includes The Isley's, DAowens, The Best of Donell Jones. Books Thomas likes include Keeping Score: Project Management for the Pros, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, From the Pit tom the pinicale. Movies Thomas likes include The Ten Commandments, Taken, Field of Dreams. TV shows Thomas likes include CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, CBS Denver.
One of Thomas's favorite quotes is:""If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
-Robert SouthÂ
God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble. So we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken and the mountains fall into the center of the sea, even if its waters go wild with storm and the mountains shake with its action - [Psalm 46:1-3]
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr, Â Strength to Love, 1963
The Importance of Leaving a Legacy
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There are four areas concerning Leaving a Legacy that I consider to be fundamental; a Life Well-Lived, Principles to Live By, The Importance of a Spiritual Legacy and an Impact Legacy and a Financial Legacy. Today I would like to share on a Life Well-Lived.
You know, I have had an amazing life. I have travelled the world. I have shared my heart with so many wonderful people. I have been fortunate enough to make a great living and enjoy the fruit of my work. I have met thousands of people who are dedicated to personal development and self growth. I have made it my life's pursuit to teach others the philosophies and actions that would help them achieve greatness and personal fulfilment in their own lives.
 Forty years ago, it felt like it would never end. Today, I still imagine I have many years left, but I also am more aware than ever that there is much less time left than before.
Being aware of this has made me even more clear on my goal of living well and teaching others to do the same. Our One-Year Plan of Success is designed to help others achieve all of their dreams and is part of one of the legacies I want to leave behind.Â
Leaving a legacy for others to follow is part of what drives me. I followed others who had gone before me; they left a legacy for me. Now I am making sure that those who come after me will have a trail to follow as well. You see, leaving a legacy is important.
Think about those who left a legacy for us to follow and for you specifically:
Your parentsÂ
Your grandparents
Your aunts and uncles
Your schoolteachers
Your coaches
Your neighbours where you grew up
For those of us in America (For our international readers, take a moment to reflect on those leaders who helped form the foundations of your country):
The founding fathers of the U.S., who had a dream of a place of self-determination
Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves
FDR, who saw us through the great depression
The many men and woman who defended our liberties through the wars of the 20th century so we could live in freedom
JFK, who called us to space exploration and set us on course to have a man walk on the moon
Martin Luther King Jr. who left us a legacy to pursue the dream of racial equality
There are literally thousands of men and women who lived in a way that affects our lives today.
And yes, the list goes on from there as well. These are the people who we knew, who we lived with, and who shaped us deeply, for good and for bad in some cases.
You see, a legacy can be anywhere on the continuum, from very bad to very good. It all depends on how we live our lives.
How we live our lives is critically important. This month Chris and I want to challenge you to take a look at how you live. We want to challenge you to think deeply about the major areas of your life where you can and should leave a lasting legacy.
Why is leaving a legacy important? Here are a few reasons:
The legacy we leave is part of the ongoing foundations of life. Those who came before leave us the world we live in. Those who will come after will have only what we leave them. We are stewards of this world, and we have a calling on our lives to leave it better than how we found it, even if it seems like such a small part.
Legacies have raw power for good and for bad. There are people who have changed the world for good, people who have opened up new worlds for millions of others, people who have spurred...Expand for more
others onto new heights. And there are people who have caused massive destruction for countless millions, people who left a wake of pain behind them wherever they went.
There are parents who have blessed their children with greatness and other parents who have ruined their children's fragile minds and hearts. What we do affects others. Our lives have the power to create good or purvey evil. It is important that we choose to do good.
It is an act of responsibility to leave a legacy. Because of the power of our lives and the legacies we leave, it is a great responsibility to choose to leave a positive legacy. All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine. I truly believe that part of what makes us good and honorable people is to have a foundational part of our lives based on the goal of leaving a legacy.
Purposefully leaving a legacy for others breaks the downward pull of selfishness that can be inherent in us. When we strive to leave a legacy, we are acting with a selflessness that can only be good for us. Yes, I suppose someone could work hard to earn money so that when he or she dies, a building is named after them, but that is not the kind of legacy we are talking about.
 We are talking about legacies that make life better for those who come after us, not about our own fame or recognition, but about helping others. After all, we won't be around to watch our legacy. To build that which will last beyond us is selfless, and living with that in mind breaks the power of selfishness that tries so desperately to engrain itself in our lives.Â
It also keeps us focused on the big picture. Legacy building is "big picture." It keeps us focused on the long-term and gives us values that we can judge our actions by. When we are acting based on selfishness, personal expediency and the like, we are "small picture"--whatever is pragmatic right now. When we are building a life that will give for many years, we are "big picture." Ask yourself: How does this action affect my overall goals? How will this affect people in the years to come?
Yes, your legacy is very important. Take this last month to reflect on how you are going to use the lessons, information and skills from the first eleven months to build a life that leaves a tremendous legacy!".
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Inducted into the Western State College Athletic Hall of Fame, Rocky Mountain Athletic
God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when we are in trouble. So we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken and the mountains fall into the center of the sea, even if its waters go wild with storm and the mountains shake with its action - [Psalm 46:1-3]
Ezra knew Godâs promises to protect his people, but he didnât take them fro granted. He also knew that Godâs blessings are appropriated through prayer, so Ezra and the people humbled themselves by fasting and praying. And their prayers were answered. Fasting humbled them because going without food was a reminder of their complete dependence on God. Fasting also gave them more time to pray and meditate on God.
To often we pray glibly and superficially. Serious prayer, by contrast, requires concentration. It puts us in touch with Godâs will and can change us. Without serious prayer, we reduce God to a quick-service pharmacist with painkillers for our every ailment. Â
Know the scriptures, apply them to your life, live them and pray for whatever. More likely than not, following this will mean that you are praying Godâs will anyway.
edify one another; by praying together, conversing with each other about the doctrines of the Gospel, and the dealings of God with their souls; abstaining from all corrupt communication, which has a tendency to hurt each other's principles or practices, or to stir up wrath and contention; attending only to those things which are for the use of edifying, whereby their souls might be more and more built upon Christ, and their most holy faith; and be a rising edifice, and grow up unto an holy temple in the Lord, and for an habitation of God through the Spirit:
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
âMarianne Williamson
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