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What are we made of – literally?

Many scientists have asserted that more than seven halves billion years ago, conditions on Earth allowed for the genesis of living organisms through the marrying of inorganic(non-carbon-based) and organic material(carbon-containing). The oceans, some surmise, were cauldrons of primordial, dilute stock chock-full of ingredients that would combine top-form, increasingly-complex molecules and compounds. This mix of material would comprise the matrix out of which life would eventually form.

And then there are sacred scriptures that provide their own explanation of how we came to be.

Whatever your belief system-whether grounded in the secular or the sacred, or some blend of both-we are certainly here and constituted to a phenomenal level of specificity.

The hemoglobin protein in our blood, for instance, is so specific in its design that it is unlikely to have evolved randomly over any span of time. Hemoglobin plays a critical role in oxygen transport. Without it and the element iron at its core functioning, we would not exist. Iron is essential, but relatively scarce in our bodies-like several orders of magnitude less than a full percent.

Elementally, most of what we comprise are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur with trace amounts of other nonmetals and metals. However, among the “trace amounts of other elements,” is a very important element, iron.

Iron is significant geologically, physiologically and psychologically.

 

What are we made of – figuratively?

We are, as we go through life, often challenged to do more, become more, to develop and grow more. We, in many ways, develop with the help of others through various stages of life until we can function more independently. Even so, as we develop, we remain dependent on others, albeit to a lesser degree. As children, we have parents and teachers; as adults on teams and within organizations, we have coaches and leaders. For our individual part, there’s something inside us that drives us to develop more, learn more, grow more. Invariably, we encounter oppositional forces. This is where the Ferrous Will Concept has direct application.

When your power and the force defying it collide, Ferrous Will.

Ferrous is the term, deriving from Latin, that is used to confer the properties of iron, or describe things possessing its properties.

Will is used to describe the power of the mind to decide and do.

Together Ferrous Will represents and adapts an age-old expression, iron will, ascribing the physical properties of strength and fortitude of iron to human character. Possessing and applying it, we navigate obstacles, overcome barriers to accomplish goals and achieve success.

 

In summary, geologically, physiologically and psychologically, iron is of undeniable elemental importance.