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The Ultimate Gift
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- On the first of each month for the next year, you will meet with Mr. Hamilton and Miss Hastings and be given one element of what I call the ultimate gift.†
Chpt 2ultimate = most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
- If at any time during the next twelve months you do not perform as called for, or if Mr. Hamilton does not approve of your attitude and demeanor, he will simply stop the process and cut you off from my ultimate gift to you.†
Chpt 3
- Please remember, if at any time you do not complete the activities outlined in my will, or if Mr. Hamilton is not pleased with your attitude, this endeavor will simply end, and you will forego the ultimate gift.†
Chpt 3
- You can go through this process the way Red Stevens laid it out for you, or you can quit right now; but I will tell you one thing, your attitude is putting you dangerously close to losing the ultimate gift that your great-uncle planned for you.†
Chpt 5
- In the final analysis, Jason, life—when lived on your own terms—is the ultimate teacher.†
Chpt 6
- All of the lessons I am trying to teach you as a part of the ultimate gift I am leaving you through my will are generally learned as people go through their lives facing struggles and problems.†
Chpt 7
- Any challenge that does not defeat us ultimately strengthens us.†
Chpt 7ultimately = finally; or in the end
- I was feeling sorry for myself and considering that after all this work I was going to lose my inheritance and whatever this ultimate gift is that my Uncle Red has for me.†
Chpt 7ultimate = most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamental
- I want to remind you that you've come a long way, but you have a long way to go, and if at any point your attitude or your conduct does not meet Mr. Hamilton's expectations, we will end this journey immediately, and you will not receive the ultimate gift, which is the bequest I have left to you in my will.†
Chpt 9
- I hope you'll remember that when you receive the ultimate gift that I have planned for you as my final bequest, the delivery of that gift will be due in large measure to the efforts of my dear friends Theodore Hamilton and Margaret Hastings.†
Chpt 10
- I have been trying to decide, as I have been formulating this ultimate gift for you, which of the gifts is the greatest.†
Chpt 10
- If you are to continue along the path to receiving the ultimate gift I have left you in my will, at the end of this month you will return and report to Mr. Hamilton a gift that you have given each day of this month.†
Chpt 11
- I thought of all the lessons we had learned, and I was reminded of the fact that we just had a few months to go to complete Red Stevens' ultimate gift to Jason.†
Chpt 12
- I never really appreciated it as I should, but through this ultimate gift from the will, I have been able to share my home with other people and have come to appreciate it myself.†
Chpt 12
- And finally, number ten, I am thankful for each of the steps leading up to the ultimate gift.†
Chpt 12
- As we entered the eleventh month of Jason Stevens' pursuit of the ultimate gift, I realized that during this month we would pass the one-year anniversary of Red Stevens' death.†
Chpt 13
- I felt pride and responsibility that he had selected me to accompany Jason through each step of the journey toward the ultimate gift Red had planned for him.†
Chpt 13
- Jason, I want you to know that as I was contemplating the ultimate gift I wanted to present you through my will, I spent a lot of time thinking about you.†
Chpt 13
- Jason, I want to congratulate you for making it to the last step of the ultimate gift I planned for you.†
Chpt 14 *
- Jason, in this last month, I'm going to introduce you to the one part of my ultimate gift to you that encompasses all of the other gifts as well as everything good you will ever do, have, or know in your life.†
Chpt 14
- Please remember that your attitude and your performance are still being judged, and if you fail—even in the twelfth month—you will not be receiving the entire ultimate gift I have planned for you.†
Chpt 14
- My Uncle Red's love for me in giving me the ultimate gift forever changed my life and who I am.†
Chpt 14
- There is one more step in the ultimate gift that you don't know about.†
Chpt 14
- In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own ultimate gift.†
Chpt 15 —
- You have completed each element and received each part of the ultimate gift I had planned for you.†
Chpt 15 —
- Now that you have received the ultimate gift, not only do you have the privilege of enjoying it, but you have the responsibility of living your life to its fullest with each gift in balance.†
Chpt 15 —
- You have the further responsibility of passing along the ultimate gift whenever it is possible.†
Chpt 15 —
- Jason, I have done a lot of things in my life, but the best of them may well be passing the ultimate gift on to you.†
Chpt 15 —
- Make your life an extension of the ultimate gift you have received.†
Chpt 15 —
- If you will do all of these things, you will have—in your own way—given to me your version of the ultimate gift.†
Chpt 15 —
- I am going to use every element of the ultimate gift, and I am going to find a way to pass it on to deprived people who are as I was a year ago.†
Chpt 15 —
- I direct Jason to use the wisdom and experience he has gained as a recipient of the ultimate gift to manage these projects and any others that he deems significant.†
Chpt 15 —
- He looked toward Miss Hastings and back to me, saying, "I could use part of the charitable trust to spread the ultimate gift all around the world."†
Chpt 15 —
- I wish I could tell you how thankful I am to be included in the ultimate gift, and I wish I could tell you all of the wonderful things Jason has done and is going to do.†
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- As I walked out of the conference room, I realized Red did know and—in his own way—would be watching with me as Jason lived out and passed on The Ultimate Gift.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(ultimate) most extreme as in final, best, worst, most important, or most fundamentalThe exact meaning of ultimate depends upon its context. For example:
- "the ultimate decision-maker" -- the final
- "the ultimate car" -- the best
- "the ultimate insult" -- the worst
- "the ultimate source" -- original or most fundamental
- "the ultimate sacrifice" -- most extreme
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)