Generation Ark: How to Create an Enduring Legacy

By Simon Ambrose, Rosemary Atkins and Raymond Aaron

Together, Simon and Mamie have created this book just for you. They believe you must preserve what memories you have of family, for your future generations, as soon as possible. Through loss they have both learned life is fragile and one never knows when the opportunity to protect memories of yesterday and today for the tomorrows.

Every human or being on Earth as a legacy…What's Yours? Will you pass yours along to future generations or journey through life, ending as an unknown, losing all recognition to your family, decades into their futures?
You will learn the tools you need for preserving your legacy so nothing is lost and one day decades beyond your departure in life, when a relative or friend looks back in time, there you will be, waiting to meet them, on video, voice or written message, preserved for all time.
Wouldn't you love to meet your relatives that lived 100 years ago or speak to your great, great, great grandchildren in the future? It's all possible and I share the past and future with you, showing you by example, days from the Cavemen that scratched out messages on a wall to 3D images of the future. Don't let your life's journey lay dormant never to be heard from again…Let your life and those you care about flourish with knowledge, by taking them along on the journey of life. Your legacy just may be what the world, finds to be the next, game-changer for the generations to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781772772739

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INTRODUCTION

Generation Ark: How to Create an Enduring Legacy by

Simon Ambrose and Rosemary Mamie Adkins

Are those in your life a faded memory or did they leave a lasting impression that has affected your own legacy?

WHO ARE YOU?

Do you know how, when or where your life began?

What makes you love the things you do, or behave in the manner in which you do? When growing up, do you remember what your grandparents once loved to do for entertainment or how long they dated before getting married. What about your favorite habits or hobbies in life. Did someone in your past love the very same ideas? And what about your parents? Did they have special talents which left an impression in your heart?

These and many other questions may have been in your thoughts for some time and what should motivate you to study every resource you could find, for your own benefit. Later, after learning what could have been lost without the knowledge that had been learned, we made the decision to offer this information for you, so your memories and family treasures can also remain part of your own memories.

This is what is known as a legacy?

Every living creature on earth has one!

The purpose of the book, Generation Ark: How to Create an Enduring Legacy, by Simon Ambrose and Rosemary Mamie Adkins, was written to teach you how to never allow the voids in life, that are missing or unknown due to the lack of knowledge or understanding and how to hold on to what’s important to you…Your story and the stories of those who matter to you.

In recent years, Simon Ambrose, lost his mum who had many fine qualities. The love she gave her family and everyone whose lives she touched, were better for it. Simon, was one of those lucky ones, who can now bask in the memory of her love as though being embraced by her because her memories will forever be kept alive. One day, when I have children, they will know all about her because I have it recorded, as I do for the times shared with my dad. But for my father, it’s ongoing and will be, while he is still alive and well. He and I are very close and I have so many memories I will never want to lose with him.

One of my mum’s (Simon’s) many traits was her incredible talent in painting. Those paintings grace their home and speak volumes about her love of life. They tell a warm story of who she was and how she viewed life. He was able to record her lifetime accomplishments and the legacies she accrued, by the way she was with those whose lives she touched.

Every boy believes his mum is the most loving, giving and sharing but time often steals those memories of the years gone-by. Now, would’t you love to preserve your memory of those special times, your own life, and those of other family members, so all of those legacies could collectively be kept alive?

You may have no clue how your life has impacted others but know this: everyone leaves some kind of footprint on this world for others to follow, good or bad.

Our book, Generation Ark, How to Create an Enduring Legacy, will charter out your course and map out for you exactly how you can preserve the memories for generations to come, capturing even those from the past that you can still trace.

Imagine, if you had lost a parent at an early age and no one had taken the time to record all of their wonderful assets and generous heart, what you would feel like, when you wanted to know about your beginnings in life. No photographs, no recordings of their accomplishments or their impact on family or society. You would be heart broken, disappointed and lost for having the knowledge of what may be reflected in your own make-up but never knowing for sure where that part of you came from.

Many of us think of a legacy in terms of what is financially bequeathed by a loved one to another. But a far more important legacy from that same person, would be what they had contributed to the world around them. How they treated their family, friends, neighbors and their involvement in their community or elsewhere. This is what helps define the makeup of ones own legacy. After all, aren’t you worth far more than just your financial wealth, that your family will appreciate as your finest assets?

Through your journey in life you collect many life experiences from education, personal relationships, jobs, practical activities and observations to self study and realizations. With all of these collected strengths, have you ever reflected on what you’d like to pass on to the next generation?

Each of us who have traveled though hard times as we learn life’s lessons appreciate the knowledge we gain. For Simon, one of the most important things his father taught him was that family is the center of all that’s good in life as well as the importance of owning your choices in life, no matter how they turn out. To live each day, with honor and respect for yourself and others. He was taught that education and an open mind were the tools of advancement in life. What lessons in life do you want to leave behind as part of your legacy?

The dictionary defines the word habit as a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up; an automatic reaction to a specific situation, the tendency for something done very frequently, to become automatic. In other words, relating this definition to a legacy, it is part of your routines developed over time and in turn becomes a part of who you are…much of which aids in the development of your behavior and ultimately your legacy. You may be asking how…well, habits are ways of routines you develop over days, weeks, months and years ending up making a huge impact on your life….how you actually turn out. Those patterns are directly involved in how your life’s journey travels into your future and determines your legacy. Now, you can see how good habits play an important role in legacies.

We now know that knowledge and good habits are key to understanding the components of a legacy, so answer this: Do you have any good habits that are worthy enough to inspire others? If not, get started changing the way you look at life, if a legacy is important to you.

Let’s look at a few other parts of a legacy. What about the things we self teach ourselves. Has your passion to learn a particular activity driven you to teach yourself? What? Have you taught yourself how to use a camera, English style horseback riding, scuba dive, dance, write poetry or climb mountains? These are all special skills that take time to develop and become part of who you are. By doing so, did you work at it until you achieved that skill at levels you were proud of and brag a little? Whatever it is, find a way to share it as part of your personal legacy and own it!

By now, you have some idea of how a legacy is established. We will be explaining it further as we venture together in the next several chapters, explaining not only the importance but how to capture and record your own and your family legacies. Whether it be from raising children, developing ideas, creating inventions or becoming that well known entertainer or social butterfly, it is all in the results of these efforts you make and how it effects those in the world around you.

Have you thought about the history from so many, who have contributed to your comforts of today? Here are just a few so you can try to imagine what life would be like without these conveniences but know, there are thousands more, not listed here:

•Starting in 1848 the W omen Rights Movement , in the USA was responsible for so many rights enjoyed by women today. Most independent countries enacted women’s suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917, Britain and Poland in 1918, and the United States in 1920.

•The discovery of aspirin called the miracle drug , that cured many ailments by Felix Hoffmann at Bayer in Germany in 1899.

•The steam engine that replaced the wind, for faster sailing ships by Robert Fulton in 1808.

•The Electric light, in 1800, by Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swan.

•The printing press, was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg, around 1440, providing us with freedom of speech.

•Alexander Graham Bell: inventor of the telephone, made the first call on March 10, 1876, opening the world with communication.

•Karl Benz: invented the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. Hence, allowing us to travel across countries and even continents.

•Andrew Carnegie: led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the wealthiest people ever.

•Winston Churchill: He was most famous for leading Great Britain successfully during the Second World War but also won a Nobel Prize for Literature( https:/​/​learnodo-newtonic.​com/​winston-churchill-accomplishments )

•Martin Luther King: the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. www.​americaslibrary.​gov/​aa/​king/​aa_​king_​subj.​html

•Tim Berners-Lee: is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

•Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.​com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003 and may yet be responsible for the colonization of Mars. https:/​/​www.​biography.​com/​people/​elon-musk-20837159

•Nicola Tesla: was an engineer known for designing the alternating-current (AC) electric system, which is still the predominant electrical system used across the world today. He also created the " Tesla coil," which is still used in radio technology. https:/​/​www.​biography.​com/​people/​nikolatesla-9504443

•300 Spartans: - Following a massive Persian land invasion of Greece in 480 BC Leonidas lead a small contingent of Spartan hoplites - some 300 hand-picked men to defend the pass of Thermopylae and hold the invading force until more troops could be mustered. https:/​/​www.​ancient.​eu/​Leonidas_​I/​

•Cake : Who was responsible for it’s creation? Reviewing a search we found a reference to cake that showed the Ancient Egyptians , were the first culture where advanced baking skills could be traced, according to the food historians. In the Oxford English Dictionary, which traces the English word back to the 13th century, states the word is a derivation of ‘ kaka ’ , and is an Old Norse word. Research also reveals the Medieval European bakers often baked fruitcakes and gingerbread.

•Shaving Cream: A rudimentary form of shaving cream was documented in Sumer around 3000 BC. This substance combined wood alkali and animal fat and was applied to a beard as a shaving preparation. Until the early 20th century, bars or sticks of hard shaving soap were used. https:/​/​en.​wikipedia.​org/​wiki/​Shaving_​cream

We have been taken back by these words from the film, Blade Runner (1982) which has become a classic quote, that was not from the script but rather amazingly improvised in the moment.

Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) Tears in the Rain….I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched the-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Legacy is not just about who invented what but about the little things from your past.

This list could go on for some length but the idea is to show you why legacies are not only valuable in life but that even the smallest of things, that effect your or other lives, should never be lost because you did not know how to preserve those memories. These listed are of huge importance and why they are documented everywhere, but what about the little things that make life more enjoyable. For instance, perhaps someone in your family designed a hot or cold method for bringing you relief from pain, such as the corn pillows, which are simple but someone thought of a way for a simple pain relief without the use of medicine many found helpful. Was it your family? Well, we hope you get our point! The smallest of things can create a legacy…a memory for what you stand for and how others will remember.

We will show you throughout the book how each of those examples influenced someone else’s life and expand on these individuals as well. By example, we plan to guide you in a direction that preserves your life and those around you for generations to come.

If you can think of your life as a canvas that has been artfully drawn to reflect your image, your worth, ideals, beliefs and your inner strengths, what would it look like? Would it be the Mona Lisa or Picasso? The eyes of great artists could envision through the spirit of pure goodness to the abstract sides of curiosity. Their skills allowed them to express what emotions or insights to life that laid inside of themselves, waiting to be expressed. These feelings have now become famous legacies. What’s yours? Part of our plan in writing this book is to help you open your minds and think about your life and see what you want for future generations to remember about you.

We invite you to use a paper and pen for an exercise. Try to list the qualities that define who you are. Try to write out your own character’s assets, both the good and the bad. Think about the assets you want to hand down to your future generations. Which one of these assets will eventually be part of your legacy?

You can take charge and shape who you are and who you become. Once you see what is written before you, look to see what it is you want to be remembered for. Do you know what part of those traits come from your family heritage?

On the other side of the sheet, list your family members as far back as you can remember and list the most precious memories you have of them and what their inner qualities were that stood out to you. Who do you resemble? This is another example of legacy. Part of yours, is likely compiled from many years back in relative history, added to by whatever contributions you have developed inside of yourself. Together with your family traits and the ones you develop for your own, will make you the best of all those who impacted your life.

My Mums death played a key role in how my life measures up. When she passed away, I felt emotionally orphaned and alone and my father was devastated and had no will to go on. I knew I had to shake my own emotions of loss and help him or I would be orphaned by him as well. What I had learned from the loss of my mum was so much but the one clear thought I had was that I wanted to remember every tiny detail of her life so one day when looking back or sharing her memories with my own children, I could clearly see her as though she was still present beside me. I needed to find ways to preserve her life for future generations as well. I also knew I wanted new memories with my father, recording in time every precious moment, be it while watching him grieve and holding him during his tears of sorrow over my mom, kissing a