The Big Moo - 3

What did you score on your first test when you were one minute old? How about five minutes old? This woman invented the test! Do you know who she is? Do you know what your scores were. I loved reading this story in The Big Moo.

Adah scored an 8 on her first test and a 9 on her second test!

Her name is Dr. Virginia Apgar and she did something remarkable to revolutionize the way newborns are screened when they are first born.

The system assigns a maximum score of 2 points to five criteria: heart rate, respiratory rate, reflex irritability (response to physical stimulation, muscle tone, and color. The test is done at one minute and five minutes.

You need at least a seven to be consider healthy. It's now known as the APGAR score. You'll hear dads, "What was your kid's APGAR score?"

They now use her last name as an acronym to make it easier to learn and remember. A-appearance; P-pulse; G-grimace; A-activity; R-respiratory.

Can you imaging leaving a remarkable impact on the world in some way like this? No technology, no budget, no cost...no problem.

What I love about this story is that we all have Virginia Apgar inside of us. We all have the capability to leave something remarkable but it takes knowing who we are, knowing what we are good at deciding to use what we have been blessed with as a blessing. It's about making our passion a blessing to others. It's about using our passion without a financial cost to us or the people we affect! There's no strings attached. It's simply about being a blessing and who can imagine the price tag on that!

It doesn't matter if you are an individual or a business - what remarkable thing are you going to be remembered for?

So if you're a mother, a parent, a CEO, a pastor, a teacher, a small business owner, an accountant, a janitor, a tire changer on the Nascar pit crew of Dale Jr....all of us have been blessed with a passion that was given to us to leave a remarkable impact.

What's your passion? Who's knows that it's remarkable?

In a quiet moment you ought to stop and remember that one woman, who gave her passion away, is a part of your story of being alive, and you probably didn't even know it - now that's a remarkable impact!