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If you knew you were going to die tomorrow and were asked, “What will your Legacy be?” would you have an answer? Will you give a dribbling, toothless smile at your final breath knowing your time here served a purpose?
80 million baby boomers are coming to an age and asking themselves “And the mark I’ll leave is what…?”
We’re asking: “What is my Legacy? Do I want my time on earth to mean something?”
Bill Clinton said: “The creation and maintaining of one’s own Legacy should consume your every waking hour.”
The idea of ‘Legacy’ for me began when my Father was asked to speak about his heroic, medaled, story-rich experience of World War II in front of his grand-daughter’s grade 5 class. He wasn’t a storyteller… so I helped him structure about fifty stories, every one a movie.
Dad then wrote each one of them, by hand. I typed them into the computer; we reviewed and re-wrote, and handed them to my sister, a publisher. We launched my 90 yr. old Father’s book at a military museum, and that book will now be passed on from generation to generation. I know they’ll say, “That’s my great, great, great grandfather’s book!”
Through this I began learning about Legacy. My Father’s legacy was now richer. And I’m including his book as part of my Legacy because, yes, I helped make it happen. And future generations of my family will learn about my father because of what I did.
But, once done, I thought: “What are other forms of Legacy… and how can I help people create their own Legacies?”
I have a feeling most people think ‘Legacy’ is all about leaving money. That’s part of Legacy, but not all of it. I think you can break Legacy into three areas:
1. Gather your Stories.
This means capturing your family’s history… in audio, video or print. Your parents, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers etc. Imagine how fulfilled you’d feel if those stories were captured for every generation that followed you?
2. Tell your Story.
Yes, this is about you. They’re called “Ethical Wills” or “Personal Legacy Statements”. These stories tell the world that follows you… about you. What you did in your life, why you did it, your personal philosophy on how to live a good life… and yes, lots of pictures. In a hundred years your personal Legacy statement will be a HUGE hit in your very extended family.
3. Create your Story.
This is the big one. Your imagination can run wild here because this is all the stuff you can do to affect the world when you’re here… and continue to affect it when you’re gone.
It might be about money. You can leave it for your favorite cause or have your name put on the side of a building or hospital wing. It might be about an ongoing event. You can establish a Foundation, an environmental movement or a charity.
It might be about something ’small’… and very personal. A song for your family or community. A perpetual garden in the middle of town. An annual scholarship for one child a year.
In “Physics of the Soul”, Dr. Amit Goswami said the purpose of life is “to learn, to love and to be creative…to develop that which survives physical death.”
A Legacy can be extremely simple and stand-alone. Or it can be fostered by future generations.
Robert Kennedy said: “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
I guess the choice we all have is: do I want to leave a Legacy?
An examined life, well lived, will say ‘yes’.
Robb Lucy
http://www.eyelearner.com
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